My private laptop is a 2 year old Dell G5 5590 in its highest specs. I’m not happy with this machine at all. I won’t buy a Dell laptop in the near future. Reason number 1 is its bad thermal management. Apart from the nasty bloatware it comes with and it’s crappy management software.
I wonder who can work dozens of hours a week with that noise involved.
CPU’s haven’t improved very much over the years in terms of single core performance, but modern CPUs support faster instruction sets. Of course a software has to support them, but it’s no that you get large speed gains without these.
(For large Boolean intersections you can open Rhino in multiple instances and run them truly in parallel, supposed you can divide the shape into atomic pieces. )
So if you work most of the time on a desk (with a docking station in place), then rather downgrade the gpu and use a eGPU instead.
I don’t think RAM is that important. They are oversized for most use cases.
If you lower the render-mesh settings , less polygons need to be drawn. So I don’t think you’ll need an high-end graphics card. But this depends on your average project size and if you like to display with realistic shaders.