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Do your research, but if you can tolerate 13” diagonal screen, the retina intel macbook airs are cheap.
Do you have needs other than Linux compatibility, size and weight and screen resolution?
I need enough RAM since I open too many browser tabs. I also edit 1080p video occasionally.
You can get em with 16gb of ram. They were all 8th gen or tenth gen intel processors and the 8th gen and up igpus shred 1080 in my experience. I use a laptop with an 8th gen to stream several sources at once.
The only issue you’re gonna run into is storage, but I use external or networked storage for everything anyways.