Based on past experience, I wouldn't buy chuwi hardware unless you're willing to treat it as disposable

Good to know... at that price it almost is. I just want a half way decent Linux laptop that isn't FHD or 5 years old. Carbons are more than I want to pay for something 'for fun'.

That's less expensive than the ASRock NUC BOX-225H I bought... and that was without RAM/NVMe.