Unless you're working with MCUs etc. and want the GPIO pins, you'd get far more value out of a reasonable ASUS or Lenovo model.

The SD card is a big bottleneck on the Pi.

There is an M.2 hat for the Pi 5 that allows using an NVMe SSD instead of the SD card.

Like dropping a racing engine into a Hindustan Ambassador. Makes no sense.

If you get a chance to use one first hand you see the performance impact is more than noticeable.

I see you're a person of taste. You nicely paired a bad analogy with your incorrect assumption.

Just saw a kickstarter for something like that recently, a laptop built around a CM 5 with even GPIO broken out. Argon 40 something.

Probably this one (not launched yet) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/argonforty/upton-one-th...

Yep that's the one, I have to say it's kinda tempting on one hand, but on the other the Pi 5 is still about 4x slower than this already slow Framework 12 with a GPU that barely qualifies being called that so using it would be pretty painful I imagine.

You should! That sounds like a great project.