I bought my son a new laptop. He is going off to university in the fall and his current desktop computer is getting long in the tooth. I may have gone a bit overboard but I had great fun ordering a customized desktop replacement for him. He has a plug-in optical drive and external backup drive. Unlike me, he also uses the Cloud. While this a gaming laptop, he does some gaming, it's going to be great for other uses also. Since it weighs 9lbs it's not a laptop anyone wants to haul around but my son already has a compact laptop also.
Alienware Area-51m desktop replacement laptop, fully upgradable
17" FHD matte anti-glare display with Tobii eye tracking
lighted keyboard with anti-ghosting
Intel Core i9-9900K CPU @4.9GHz
32GB RAM
512GB RAID (2x 256GB PCIe M.2 SSDs) + 2TB (+8GB SSHD) Hybrid Drive
64-bit OS, x64-based processor
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 2080
Windows 10 pro
Alienware Area-51m desktop replacement laptop, fully upgradable
17" FHD matte anti-glare display with Tobii eye tracking
lighted keyboard with anti-ghosting
Intel Core i9-9900K CPU @4.9GHz
32GB RAM
512GB RAID (2x 256GB PCIe M.2 SSDs) + 2TB (+8GB SSHD) Hybrid Drive
64-bit OS, x64-based processor
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 2080
Windows 10 pro