Looking for best value laptop for video processing

I understand people needing high-end laptops for doing certain things out cannot outsource to other hardware like when you game on them.

However, I would personally advise against using a laptop for doing intensive video editing, you'd be far better off buying a small desktop PC with a graphics card that has better ventilation which can breathe and just connect to it from the laptop which then can be cheaper as it won't need egpu / gpu.

Even if you go down the graphics card dock / box / egpu route the current standards for them seem to be a bit all over the place and finding the sub 1k laptop which meets them and getting the egpu will likely be far out for budget.

People from film and tv studios are able to do production level editing controlling workstations remotely so I can't imagine it's diffcult.

Having a desktop machine to do the heavy lifting is better as it's cheaper to get a high end card inside one and desktop PCs are less thermally challanged. Having two very high powered dies inside producing loads of heat is not ideal. Rending video files and editing on a laptop is a brillant way to drive it to an early death thermally or at the very least significantly strain it.

If you can have an editing server I would recommend it.

If you cannot spare the space for a mitx case somewhere then I suppose an eGPU makes sense. But I'd sooner have a mitx PC just in case my laptop ever broke as the eGPU docks along with a compatible laptop can be expensive.

Totally your choice though. (edited)

You'll not have a good experience editing 4K video on a sub £1k laptop. It's the difference between spending 10~15 minutes editing under an hour of 4K footage, vs several hours! A MacBook M1 even 2nd hand would be around £1.5k...
This is probably as cheap as I would go on a laptop for 4k editing:
amazon.co.uk/dp/…q1j
It does have the advantage of a second screen that you can use for the video timeline...
There are plenty of options out there, just not in your budget.
An i7 or i9, at least 32GB, preferably 64GB RAM, a dedicated GPU is recommended, however it depends what software you use as not all of them take full advantage of certain GPUs... (edited)