Laptops come in a huge variety of shapes and sizes. If I was buying for battery life, I would think the new AMD Ryzen 4000 series would be high on my list though.
For reasonable portability, decent gaming and excellent CPU performance, the laptop in the article is $1450, though availability is still low.
For seriously good performance on a tight budget, the Asus TUF 506 (A15) lines packs a Ryzen 48xx and up to an RTX 2060 into a $1000-1200 laptop. The screen has high performance on paper but older versions of this laptop had bad things to say about the screen, so I'd wait for reviews.
There are other Asus options like the A17 and Zephyrus G15 which are all worth a look, and starting to show up in stock here and there.
For reasonable portability, decent gaming and excellent CPU performance, the laptop in the article is $1450, though availability is still low.
For seriously good performance on a tight budget, the Asus TUF 506 (A15) lines packs a Ryzen 48xx and up to an RTX 2060 into a $1000-1200 laptop. The screen has high performance on paper but older versions of this laptop had bad things to say about the screen, so I'd wait for reviews.
There are other Asus options like the A17 and Zephyrus G15 which are all worth a look, and starting to show up in stock here and there.