For some reason, I think your going to end up with a gaming laptop

We'll see... I'm not much of gamer outside blockchain games these days. But they evolve too...

Then there is also the question of whether or not you want a AMD processor or not because they have been making some headway. I went for intel for safety.

Over time, I had both Intel and AMD processors. Never had one to fail on me, and I guess I was lucky. On laptops I only had Intel processors as far as I remember though.