This is a highly impressive project, not just for a high school senior, but it should be stressed that this is nowhere near as powerful as a similarly priced modern laptop. This is a legendary school project, impressive enough to open doors to universities and lay the foundation for a successful career in the computer industry, but not really something you should try and build yourself if you're looking for a laptop in this price range.

A Geekbench 5 single-core score of 492 and a multi-core score of 2019 points are about comparable to a Macbook Pro from fifteen years ago. There is a small NPU present on the chip, which the old Macbook doesn't have, but if that's not important to your use case (which is very likely), then this device is not suitable for anything but the most basic tasks and will feel sluggish with any current software. There's a reason the video barely shows the device in use, because it just wouldn't be very pleasant to look at.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

True, but I think that tech disparity (of say 15 years) between hobby-grade and consumer-grade hardware is closing, and that the disparity itself becomes less meaningful when you're still able to do most things with older hardware.

Hell, my smartphone is 8 years old and runs a light modern OS which still enables me to use modern apps with ease.

This kid showed what was possible with just 6 months and 5 thousand dollars with today's hobbyist chips.
I tremble with excitement when I think of what the next kid tomorrow might do.