To compare performance my wife's new laptop is at https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07661CYPD/
This is your very nice run of the mill gamer without going over the top in my opinion.
There are 15 inch models which get my nod for any travel such as
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0747S3V8D/
But prices differ across the map so my view is the combo of i7 and the 1050 GPU is very mainstream. Most gamers will be happy.

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