Laptop and Chromebook are two very different things. A laptop is sufficient for any use case that doesn’t demand GPU power, but if you’re ever considering buying a “gaming” laptop, don’t. You can get a cheap laptop and a decent gaming desktop for the same price and they’ll last you longer and run better.
A Chromebook is just walled garden bullshit.
Studios want to hire actors for a single day’s pay then use their image in whatever “AI” generated horrors they feel like forever