Just to confirm, no preference on weight and battery life?

so after doing some research online, many seems to advice stretching out the budget slightly to get the gtx1060 instead of the 1050/1050ti as it is a significantly better card and more "future proof".
is it true that the 1060 is a way better card than even the 1050ti?

initially i was looking at y530, i5 + gtx1080ti + 8gb ram + 128gb ssd + 1tb hdd + 144hz panel. after 15% discount the price was 4.2k..
looking at the specs of the legion y530 below. exactly 4.5k after 15% discount.
i dont mind to up my budget to 4.5k cause i wanna buy something that can last me for a long term usage..
wonder if this is a solid deal or are there better laptop suggestions out there?

Processor : Intel Core i5-8300H Processor (8MB Cache, 2.30GHz)
Total Memory : 8GB DDR4 2666MHz SODIMM
Graphic Card : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 192bit
Display : 15.6"FHD (1920 x 1080) LED, IPS, Anti-glare, 300nit, 144Hz
Hard Drive : 256GB Solid State Drive M.2 PCIe

i also checked out illegear's raven for similar specs, is about 4.4k for the i5 + gtx1060 + 8gb ram + 144hz panel. the diff is its 120gb ssd + 1tb sshd combo, and it gets a mechanical keyboard.

also, is the i5 + gtx1060 a good combo? or an i7 is needed? i dont use any rendering software or adobe, etc.. but i do use it for programming and sometimes running some virtual machines, but not those very intensive VMs i think..