I believe so.

https://www.asus.com/us/Laptops/ASUS-TUF-Gaming-A15

Is what we have on route. No SD slot... but most of the other ports one might need.

Yeah it does. 1TB will last a while but depending on what she’s working on she could easily have 100GB of source material per project.

SD Card slot,for transferring files from her camera. It does have room for an extra m.2 drive. I've not opened the back yet... those parts/packages have not shown up yet.

Can you recommend a NUC-like computer?

Something easy to carry around, to LAN, ideally with PCIe slots or an NVIDIA GPU

Intel is reportedly going back to their old ways and incentivizing nuc vendors to either delay or cancel AMD versions.

https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1249819270537715719?s=...

Mini-ATX FF too big? If not, something like this: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/spety/saved/#view=QR7ZZL

(disclaimer, double check my research especially clearances for the cooler if you move forward :))