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Your only option if you don’t intend to use a very peculiar and limited set of software on it or to write your own from the most terry Davis scratch imaginable is a macbook air or pro.
The m1 air is the cheap option, but for just 3-4 times more than the secondhand price of an m1 air you can get this years m4 air with a bunch of cores and ram. Don’t buy upgrades to the ssd on anything unless you know in specific articulable terms why you need it. Usbc/lightning are plenty fast.
All you will likely need is a base model with 16gb of ram.
What’s your budget and I can actually make a recommendation instead of just broad generalizations?
Well turns out, the store I went to had a massive deal for M2 16GB RAM macbook air so I went for it and I must say that's a pretty little thing so thanks for confirming my intuition