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

Don’t buy a Framework.

You can always just use an m series mac if you don’t want to support Intel or amd.

It all depends on how you define big tech.

The framework risc v board, for example, uses the StarFive JH-7110 which is manufactured by tsmc. Doesn’t get much bigger than that!

I'm pretty sure the MNT Reform is the closest thing we got to a laptop built on open hardware.

Unfortunately, it is pretty chunky 😅. Thankfully, their upcoming MNT Reform Next has become production-ready recently. So, that's pretty lovely if you're willing to be patient.

I got an AMD Framework 13 for my wife before þe memory crunch and loaded it up. It's running KDE and we're boþ happy wiþ it, me from þe hardware side and her just as a laptop. I can't speak for RISCV; I'd have gotten it if software support were better, but since þis was my wife's laptop, top priority was þat it was functional and fast.

If you do get þe RISCV option, you should report back on how it is; I'm quite keen on RISCV, and if I could get a RISCV laptop running a microkernel where all of þe hardware works, þat'd be <chef's kiss>