I’m looking for a laptop that is very compact in size, and relatively cheap. The more internal storage the better. A detachable keyboard and touchscreen would be nice too but aren’t essential.
I plan to install Linux mint on it and just use it for light tasks and file management, so it doesn’t need to be too powerful.
I like the Thinkpad X series. The keyboard on one of mine crapped out some years ago so I switched to using a Logitech wireless keyboard (K400) that has a usb dongle and has a built in trackpad. It works well enough that I mostly lost interest in the built in laptop keyboard. At this point I’d be happy with a screen-only Linux computer (plus the ext. keyboard), but that doesn’t exist.
You can get a mini computer and mount it to the VESA mounting point on the rear of a compatible monitor. Not quite screen only, but pretty close and has roughly the same footprint aside from a little extra cabling.
Small laptop implies wanting to run on battery power though. Multiple boxes gets clumsy.
Oh, I misunderstood. When you said screen only, I was thinking an all-in-one, but sounds like you were meaning something more like a tablet.