Ultraportable laptop with 7nm/5nm ARM processor

[as4000]

Maybe Qualcomm 8cx would be the way to go.

[Dmole]

I've been interested in testing Linux on the 16GB RAM Samsung or Microsoft ARM offerings.

[ghost]

RISC-V please, open ARM alternative

[Dmole]

RISC-V

is not actually a product yet, one step at a time. There is a lot of software to sort out even when fully functional ARM hardware is available;

https://github.com/Sonicadvance1/linux/issues/27

[xbjfk]

SiFive make completed RISC-V SoCs, and 95% of Debian's software repository is compatible with RISC-V

[Dmole]

SiFive make completed RISC-V SoCs...

With 95% of of IP on the chip proprietary (ddr,pci,aes,vpu,gpu,etc).

I'll order a BeagleV anyway but there are reasons Apple went with ARM.