I'm planning to get a new laptop for home use. Since I also work from home, I have an office laptop as well.

Currently, I have a workspace which is both my personal and office space. I have a dual FHD/1080p screen (old man don't need 4K) and kb/mouse setup. I have a Surface dock so that I could easily switch between by personal and office laptop (both Surface).

I feel that my personal laptop is getting very slow and would like to upgrade to a gaming laptop for performance. Therefore, I'll be buying a TB3/4 dock so that I'm not tied to another Surface again.

What would you guy choose? An Intel or AMD laptop? Aka, do I need TB?

Intel
- Freaking expensive
- Comes with TB3/4 depends on model.

AMD
- Better performance-cost ratio. Aka, cheaper laa.
- Does not support TB.

With dual screen, do I need the TB bandwidth to make the best out of the 3070 GC? Or should I just play it save and wait for USB4 to be available on laptops?

Note: I don't use the laptop screen. So, I don't care about the aspect ratio, size, etc.

The price of AMD not too far behind Intel nowadays. They are quite close. Intel has slightly better (by negligible margins) gaming performance than AMD, but AMD has significantly less power draw. AMD has the advantage when you undock the laptop because of longer battery runtimes, but if it is docked most of the time, it shouldn't matter which one you choose. They both run hot. I will go for Intel if I were you just to have Thunderbolt support.

If you are going to "dock and forget" the laptop, you also should make sure it has battery saver firmware built-in to the laptop. Laptop batteries degrade very quickly when overcharged and subjected to high temps. Not much you can do about the latter because it is a gaming laptop, but the former, most of the big brands these days provide firmware to limit the charging to 50~80%. Don't trust the boutique brands even if they do have software suites to limit the charging, because the software may not function consistently. I only trust them if they have collaborated with Intel to make the software, cause then the control center is provided by Intel themselves and it should work better.