I'm guessing if you want quality materials, you have to pay for it. I don't know if the pixel line of Chromebooks are still a thing, but even if they are you can just get a higher end laptop with more appropriate levels of local SSD storage and an actual OS for what I remember Google charging for them.

That's why my actual laptops are Thinkpads and Macs, sure--but I can hope, right?

Higher end Chromebooks run Linux well.