It helps which app you mainly use.

Most of my laptops that does not last more than 2 to 4 years are those with cheap plastic casings. The first thing that will give-out were the hinges, plastic mounts for the hinge screws will break even with normal usage of opening/closing the laptop screen. If you want to buy a laptop that lasts, buy the ones with metal A (display shell), C (top case which houses the keyboard, palmrest, touchpad, etc.) panels. This means that a macbook or any Windows laptop line that have magnesium or aluminum builds.

My Dell’s 74Whr gaming laptop battery told me it’s time to be replaced after it bloated and made the touchpad inoperable just after 2 years of use.

Disregarding laptop branding your target should be AMD Ryzen 7840HS or 7940HS which can easily game on 1080p with FPS higher than 60fps on the games you mentioned on their own integrated GPU.

This video from ETA Prime shows the 7940HS gaming performance.

Those AMD variants are 4nm lithography so they will have significantly better battery life than their Intel same generation counterparts.

The best approach is to buy brand new power adapter. If the brand new power adapter doesn’t work then the issue it not the adapter but either the laptop port or the motherboard charging chip.

Does 100% of your work would be done on the server?

I use Google Docs and Google Sheets on it and it’s enough for my uses.

Full install - includes latest gpu driver and latest Adrenaline Software.

Macbook (with Apple Silicon), if you can take its very high pricepoint.

If you want to expend less, buy Thinkpads, depending on the model, you can settle for cheaper just-right spec (RAM, SSD) for your needs right now and scale its capacity/performance in the future by upgrading RAM and SSD. That’s the time when those RAM and SSD are actually cheaper compared to their pricing when you buy now, you will never be able to do this with a Macbook.

I’d prefer Android over Windows for example all your workflow can be easily be done in a 350USD Android tablet (I have a Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro 2021) with keyboard folio case and pen. I’m still the type of student that will be better when I write my notes instead of typing it, I use the Concepts for that. For video editing, I’m a noob at this but I find Capcut to be very user-friendly. There are also lots of very good photo editors in Android but I can’t specify one since its not part of my workflow. All my documents, spreadsheets, and presentations can be done using Google Office apps that syncs to Google Cloud.

I’m not against you on using a laptop for your use-cases, In fact you can buy the two, a tablet and a laptop but no one knew how much laptop and tablet pricing where you’re at. I work using my laptop (programming) while I draw and take note using my tablet.

2TB NVME OS Drive, 1.37TB free space. Laptop used for personal and work (programming).

I don’t like to use P2P storage for my laptop since I know that SSDs have write lifespan. However I have a 16TB local Ubuntu server running on 2 8TB HDD, I am willing to use them for P2P since they run 24/7.

I don’t but I’m currently searching and filtered it down to Yoobao EN1 Gen 2. It has 65W PD (20v) for power efficiency since my laptop can charge at 65W but when I want to game at 90 - 100% load it has a 220V 150W AC output. There are higher-capacity powerbanks out there but this powerbank is the only one that has cylindrical cells. The higher density powerbanks use Lipo pouch cells which has the issue of swelling over continued use over time.

TDP and thermals. LG gram has lower TDP and weaker thermals which means that the processor will choose to drop clockspeed (throttle) during long sustained loads.

I only have Netflix and a Lenovo Tablet with Video out. I can watch Netflix on our UHD (non-smart) TV using Lenovo’s Desktop Mode connected via type C to hdmi cable. I think Apple can implement Desktop mode too but I doubt if Apple would implement is since it will cannibalize their iPads.

Buy it to create memes using s-pen.

Black splotch means that the OLED layer has been breached and exposed to air and starts degrading fast.