You don't want a RISC-V laptop. Not yet, at least. It will take quite some doing before those compete with x86_64/arm laptops.

Beautiful thing about Windows computers is that it's generally not too hard to make them into linux/BSD/etc computers. :)

Qualcomm [1] and some vendors [2][3] are making progress towards linux support though.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-ARM-Changes

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-Vivbook-S-15-Elite-X-Linu...

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/TUXEDO-Snapdragon-X-Elite

Jim Keller is confident that Ascalon will have performance close to zen5 when it is finished later this year. Chips in hand could be some than a lot of people seen to think.

>when it is finished later this year

Source for this claim?

Ref: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/jim-keller-shares-zen5-per...

    > The predictions put Tenstorrent's upcoming CPU core comfortably ahead of Intel's Sapphire Rapids (7.45 points), Nvidia's Grace (7.44 points), and AMD's Zen 4 (6.80 points). Yet, AMD's Zen 5 is projected to hit 8.84 points, making it the absolute integer performance champion in 2024 – 2025. 

I absolutely do not believe it. Until independent reviewers can test the new Ascalon processor, these numbers are just fantasy.

What GPU will be in it?

To get a good laptop, often you need to start with a bad one.