Lenovo's 14-inch Chromebook has an IPS touchscreen display, silent operation and a good battery life. Some sacrifices will have to be made in terms of RAM and storage size.
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and when you can't connect to the internet you will have a beautiful paperweight or door stop
Why don't you have internet do you live in a 3rd world country?
Web tech that is used in chrome os works normally offline. It's often PWA based.
It's not just a "browser" in the old times meaning. For example when you edit doc it is being saved offline but when you have connection it automatically get's backed up online (with version history).