I'm willing to spend whatever as long as it's not more than 3k$. At the least I require a:
- 1080p display (anything else is superfluous in my experience)
- 60hz display (same thing)
- decent battery with ≥ 3 hours of standard web-browsing support
- whatever cpu&gpu configuration is necessary to run any game on the market right now on medium -> high settings, 1080p ≥30fps (I mostly play games like total war, call of duty, star wars battlefront 2 (2017), dark souls, etc), if this is feasible
- if I can save money by excluding an SSD (again, superfluous), sacrificing the portability (heavy is fine), or disregarding ascetics by it being chunky or whatever, that would be great. I also don't really care about temperature control, as long as it doesn't involve an existential threat for the laptop in basic use lol, or noisiness, as I have pretty great noise cancelling headphones
-can run programs like python, R, and Excel at a desktop level, as my job requires it
Forgive the probable amateurish understanding of computers this post has indicated. I really don't have time to dedicate extensive research into this subject. If you can give me a link and a decent, paragraph-level explanation, I would be grateful. Thanks gamers?