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If I wasnt worried about price to performance then I would get that Spacemit k3 riscv laptop. It'll have an NVME. Should be fine for non heavy tasks. If you are a software developer, it'd probably be good for most tasks. I remember back when all the old Linux elite software developers complained about desktop environments using too much memory on their 512MB memory laptops that are perfectly good software people love to use