Or do both and just get an older flagship model secondhand, both cheap(ish) and high mem... Especially now that full hd laptops (maybe I'm getting old but I don

Or do both and just get an older flagship model secondhand, both cheap(ish) and high mem... Especially now that full hd laptops (maybe I'm getting old but I don't really like higher-than-fhd resolutions on small screens, not on macs but especially not on linux) I like to do machine learning, which means no battery life, and even an bad old laptop nvidia gets you performance close to an M1.