I was about to buy one but the trackpad on macbooks is unmatched, imho, and I felt I would need a mouse (see above) and that is simply not workable for a neobum that needs to work from couches and in planes and ubers.

optimism

Goods_and_Gadgets

Thinkpad x1 Nano Gen 1 or Carbon Gen 8?

Scoresby

chromebooks are an interesting idea. I had one back in 2017 but switched to normal laptops because I couldn't run much other software on it (just did some digging and it looks like they enabled a linux environment around that time). I kinda wrote them off back then. 