@Madmick I might be getting somewhere at last. I'm down to 2, aware of how their displays work (I think) with the cheaper one being barely acceptable and the more expensive one being very adequate. The first is a great price, around my original budget, with a compromise on image reproduction but a fair bit less so than on other machines. The second meets every need, but it's overkill and overbudget, yet unfortunately the best option I've been able to find that does everything I want. I think I should probably go with the cheaper option but do you care to opine? Is there a good value proposition in eating the extra cost since at least it's still about $400+ cheaper than all the other ones I saw that had serviceable CPUs and good display specs?
Dell G5 SE, getting a deal at $980,
https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/cty/pdp/spd/g-series-15-5505-laptop/ng155505_sesb_s1400e
In brief,
AMD Ryzen™ 5 4600H Mobile Processor with Radeon™ Graphics
AMD Radeon™ RX 5600M 6GB GDDR6
8GB, 2x4GB, DDR4, 3200MHz
256GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive
Supernova Silver Cover with mDP and with USB-C
According to Dell the display has a color gamut of 72% of sRGB
Or,
Lenovo Legion 5, at $1390 (or possibly lower if I can mange it)
https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/laptop...Legion-5-15ARH05/p/82B1CTO1WWENCA0/customize?
AMD® Ryzen™ 5 4600H Processor (3.00 GHz, up to 4.00 GHz Max Boost, 6 Cores, 12 Threads, 8 MB Cache)
8 GB DDR4 3200MHz
256 GB PCIe SSD
15.6" FHD (1920 x 1080) IPS, anti-glare, 300 nits, 60Hz (the spec sheet
here says that one should have 100% RGB coverage and please correct me if I'm wrong--I realized earlier how you found that before)
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1660 Ti 6GB
256 GB PCIe SSD
720p HD