I visited a company yesterday.
They have all their employees using laptops that have classified government material on them. It is not SECRET, it is the lowest level, just above public.
They would only get about £150 to sell the laptops so they could be reused by someone outside the company. But they don’t do that, because it takes too long to open up the HP laptops and remove the SSD, so they instead just chuck the whole laptop in a shredder and it goes to land fill.
This process would be much quicker on a FW laptop, so would probably escape the landfill.
Sure, a FW laptop might provide a solution. But I have a feeling they may not opt to do it, even if there was very minimal to no obstacles. It sounds like the true problem is more fundamental.
They, the government agencies handling any level of sensitive information, just don’t care. Hope it’s safe to assume it’s the UK here, given the Pound currency. They should have enough buying power and influence to get a laptop or two with an easily removable SSD. If there were a couple of decent sized countries that care, they could have a whole range of laptop models suited to whatever their common needs are. Really, there must be some current models already.