What determines whether a laptop without a HDD can boot Tails?

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I am looking to buy a laptop to run Tails on as everything I have these days is Apple Silicon. I am looking for something thin and light and cheap and am looking for used/open box machines that might fit that need. I really dont want to fuss with installing it on a Chromebook so those are out.

There are a few laptops such as the ThinkPad T480 that have some incredibly cheap options on EBay that are listed as having no HDD but otherwise working fine despite cosmetic issues.

I can only assume these are so old and there is such a weak market for them that the sellers found more value selling the storage separately.

So my question is essentially: without a HDD do these machines have enough to load a boot loader, access the bios if needed, and get into TAILS? Or would I run into some difficulty?

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