64GB "laptop" would be better called a netbook or chromebook. The reason for such low storage is that it is possible to install OS + browser and that's "everything you need" for a netbook... no additional storage is included so they can hit the price-point.
HDDs were never a great storage solution for laptops because drops/falls are death to spinning rust. Manufacturers used a million tricks to make HDDs work well enough and customers just resigned themselves to the fact that a fall would likely mean losing any storage on their laptop. So, Flash/SSD/NVMe/etc. were a boon to laptops and as prices fell, customers were willing to pay the additional sticker-price for the peace-of-mind that if they drop the laptop, the storage has a strong likelihood of surviving, even if the laptop itself becomes physically damaged/unusable from the fall.
As for zero-storage systems, yes, that is something they really do want. The globalists have been pushing thin-client since the Unix days. The IBM PC was an abomination in their eyes and led to the democratization of computing resources, which is the opposite of what the Marxists need to happen, since Marxism is a kind of mass-lobotomy of society (cf Stalin's Great Purge, the purges in Mao's cultural revolution, or Pol Pot's mass slaughter of educated Cambodians in the Killing Fields, to name just a few.) The PC put a tool in the hands of the masses that, today, has enough storage capacity to hold the library of Congress many times over, has the approximate computing power of a circa-2005 super-computer, and provides instant, free access to vital data from all departments of the globe (weather, financial data, commerce information, etc.) That was a miscalculation of cosmic proportions and so they have been very, very busy behind the scenes, reworking the entire architecture of the computing industry, from the ground-up.
Now you know what all those absurd "chip shortages" are really about... or one prong of it, anyway...
