I made a mistake of buying an expensive gamer laptop (Razer) with a strong Intel CPU and NVIDIA 2070 RTX GPU, and I just didn't like it. Sure, I could do machine learning on the laptop, but I gave up so much flexibility in my life, as the battery usually died in a few hours even when I was just web browsing.

Right now I just bought an M1 MacbookPro machine, and I love it (especially the great screen that I can use in the bright sun, and the instant on that finally feels like a phone/tablet), although I prefer the 14/15 inch form factor (maybe an AMD Zen 2 laptop would have been a great choice as well, I'm not sure).