As long as the bare necessities is available e.g 14" with HDMI, 2 Type C with PD and DP Alt, MicroSD/SD card reader, smart card reader(?), 2 USB A 3.1, 1x 3.5mm jack, 1x ethernet port, kensington and easy maintenance, for me it’s enough. VGA connectors (dang those older projectors) can be handled with VGA to HDMI adapter.

My daily device is T14 G1 AMD with dualbooting separate SSD (M.2 WWAN slot used as SSD).

For games, you’d rather use game repacks as they sometime provide smaller package for downloading. The most common one are dodi, fitgirls, though other repacker like el amigos, KaOs krew, Mr Dj also available. If you don’t mind ddl, cs-rin.ru and torrminatorr also available.

Avoid IGG-Games they have shady history in case you use public tracker.

remember rtfm! Megathread, wiki, fmhy are available so you can browse easier as provided by the community.