1. Good keyboard with real F-keys and fn-arrows that do home/end/pgup/dn or real keys that do those near the arrows. No numpad so it is centered. (Never again for apple, been burned too much by their crappy keyboards.)
2. OLED screen
3. Thunderbolt or USB4
4. At least 3 or more USB/TB ports
5. 32G+ RAM
6. 2T SSD, preferably socketed, or two sockets
7. A disable-able discrete GPU is nice; but quiet in normal operation is good
8. Slim - do not care about battery, but my back is not what it used to be, including the power brick
9. Nice but secondary: HDMI/DP, Ethernet, SD, fingerprint or other biometric, good mic, good webcam, good speakers, WLAN, WiFi beyond ac
I am largely with you in this camp. Many laptops almost get there. Lenovo looks the most promising of the major brands, and there are more and more OLED laptops coming out which is really nice. Razer also seems plausible but I am concerned with heat issues.
Dell unfortunately does not do fn-arrows for some incomprehensible reason. I worked around it with an AHK script for win-arrows but the fingering is worse.
1. Good keyboard with real F-keys and fn-arrows that do home/end/pgup/dn or real keys that do those near the arrows. No numpad so it is centered. (Never again for apple, been burned too much by their crappy keyboards.)
2. OLED screen
3. Thunderbolt or USB4
4. At least 3 or more USB/TB ports
5. 32G+ RAM
6. 2T SSD, preferably socketed, or two sockets
7. A disable-able discrete GPU is nice; but quiet in normal operation is good
8. Slim - do not care about battery, but my back is not what it used to be, including the power brick
9. Nice but secondary: HDMI/DP, Ethernet, SD, fingerprint or other biometric, good mic, good webcam, good speakers, WLAN, WiFi beyond ac