I've been considering buying a laptop and presently my market is flooded with machines that sport fully integrated RAM plus an eMMC drive, usually 32GB.

The pressure for the costumer to adhere to these machines is so big that the price gap from this kind of machine from a more common entry level laptop can be more than three times the price and some times the only objective difference being a true storage drive, be it an SSD or an HDD.

How can these machines store a Win10 OS on such a little space?
And can these machines be installed with Debian?

I've considered buying an used machine but lately the used market is getting completely crazy here, with people putting up for sale for outrageous prices machines that are either beyond or too expensive to repair or machines so old that even a very scaled down and customized installation renders it next to unusable.

Can anyone share some light on this?

 

Was useful to read, I'm planning to buy new laptop too. I'm thinking of MacbookPro 2019 I have found short term loan service alternative financing like cash advance loan where I can borrow some cash for this purchase. They give loans for everyone even people with bad credit score.

 

I think that buying a used laptop is impractical, it is better to buy a powerful, high-quality and new one,