(another disposable account), I see a lot of MSI and Asus gaming laptops with good specs and reasonable pricing. The Asus TUF series has some of those cheap but good laptops. Also, Gigabyte gaming laptops have good specs, pricing.
Regarding the discrete GPU, I actually don't know if you can remove it from budget gaming laptops, I'd think you usually can't, but there are some expensive Alienware gaming laptops which I think could allow this.
As it was mentioned, the brightness could be a pain point, I'd double check about it in notebookcheck (the site).
Regarding the discrete GPU, I actually don't know if you can remove it from budget gaming laptops, I'd think you usually can't, but there are some expensive Alienware gaming laptops which I think could allow this.
As it was mentioned, the brightness could be a pain point, I'd double check about it in notebookcheck (the site).