$249 Orin Nano Super... there goes my sensible budget

NVIDIA announced the Orin Nano Super kit at $249 on Tuesday. That's the US headline, not what it'll cost me delivered. I want a small vision computer for sorting coloured practice blocks, with the arm kept separate while I get detection working. Would you start on a laptop you already own, or buy the board so you learn the eventual setup from day one? https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/jetson-generative-ai-supercomputer/