8 years mark with my WD Red 3TB drives, still zero reallocated sector count. They were kept always spinning, I don’t know if this influenced things for the better

Gaming laptops are heavier and, in my opinion, slightly less durable.

Still, if you do any gaming at all and you don’t want to crank down all the details and play with crappy graphics, you do need one a gaming laptop.

They usually have quite decent CPUs as well, however keep in mind that some of them have comically undersized batteries. Check out some review at Jarrod’s Tech Youtube channel.