>>106401952
>do you need a laptop with great battery life, great screen and good hardware, on top of being Unix?
>get a macbook
I am not sure I have a usecase for laptops at all? I carry a GPD Win 4 I got from eBay as a daily computer for programming and it works nicely because it fits in my apron. I am trying to determine the usecase of a potentially more powerful machine (bot sure, can't see specs on the site) which has limited mobility.

>do you need a laptop because your budget is limited or because your softwares are better supported on Windows or because you'd rather boot Linux?
>get a DELL / Lenovo / HP / whatever brand you want
My budget is $10k USD but I have to get AI equipment too. The main drive for a MaidBook right now is to make MaidBook threads.

>it's really not that hard to think through
It is though. Genuinely what is the usecase? I might get a big desktop and fill it with graphics cards and use it for AI remotely from the GPD Win 4.

>>106357809
Thank you for the high quality response. You are correct, though I think you are overstating the difficulty of installing the tool-chain. I did not consider this because I set GraalVM up such a long time ago that I kind of forgot it had extra steps for native-image and assumed it was like other JDKs with the exception of having native-image. This gives me two options, abandon compilation (I might do this) or try to rewrite the interpreter in assembly for whichever machine, and then perform the same trick of basically appending a copy of the interpreter to the assembly generated by the compiler.

The language is primarily for string manipulation, so I am inclined to just abandon compilation entirely. At that point the only dependency becomes a JDK thar can use Java 24.