Follow-up: a Raspberry Pi setup can be spacious indeed
Had the opportunity to test the #RaspberryPi 5 as a laptop, separately from everything else, and now I agree with the previous response saying it can be as big as a laptop:
As per the previous post from some months back, linked at the end of the OP, I had considered a Raspberry Pi set up as a laptop replacement could be smaller than one. But as someone in the older post had pointed out, it could end up being as big as one. And as explained in the OP also, I got the chance to test that out and I could finally test that out, and end up seeing it indeed can take a generous amount of space.
Makes sense now?