Would you be willing to consider a smaller laptop with an external monitor? 15.6/16" is the sweet spice in terms of price vs performance, and the money you save could get you an amazing external monitor. If so, here’s a few options from a recent thread: Please help me find a Gaming Laptop. I come to you for aid(again!) - #14 by Reply
PS: You might want to avoid Intel CPUs for the time being. The company is on fire and their recent chips have been crashing, especially the high-end gaming ones. More discussion in yet another laptop topic: Advice needed on laptop purchase
Also, you probably know this, but the desktop 5080 just came out (with a new DLSS version that can do multi-frame generation), and the laptops launch in March – if that matters to you. DLSS frame gen helps tremendously in recent games that support it. Without the multi-frame gen, it’s an inconsequential boost over the previous generation (i.e. it won’t be a big improvement for games that don’t support it). And presumably that’d be after everything becomes ridiculously expensive anyway.
Because of those discussions, I ended up getting a HP Victus 16 for about $900 (it goes on sale frequently, and is also available open-box), but ended up returning it after a week. One of the worst laptops I’d ever had: flimsy build, incredibly noisy, terrible adware (including McAfee), came with a broken USB port, awful screen & hinge… etc. But, at the time and for a few months after, it was the cheapest 4070 laptop by quite a large margin. If you don’t mind owning crap and want a compromise, that may be one (whenever it goes on sale again). I definitely wouldn’t pay $1400 for that thing; even at $900 it didn’t feel good. Back to GeForce Now for the time being (Nvidia’s game streaming service, which works superbly – much better than any laptop I’ve had).
Edit: Second sentence should read “sweet spot”, not “sweet spice”, lol. But the typo is too enjoyable to change 