@MarkAnderson6 right now is a nasty time to upgrade - RAM prices are a bit unbelievable and pushing up the price of laptops & desktops quite a bit so do you research and try to take advantage of the many sales coming up.
I would look for a decent machine with upgradeable / free slots so you can add a bit more RAM when (if?) prices drop again.
As so many parts of Pro rely on local caches and single threaded operations, make sure to have a very decent SSD under the hood. PCIe Gen 5 is the current high end but few non-top-end laptops feature them.
Pro is quite GPU intensive. So many things you do in the UI (not data related) use GPU acceleration that it is as important or more important than some other components for getting a decent experience.
Make a list of things you may want to do outside of ArcGIS - this could inform some compromises as the 'perfect' Pro device doesn't exist yet.
In the integrated GPU world the AMD Ryzen AI Max series is pretty hard to beat. With enough RAM they also make serious AI workstations too. Finding stock of good AMD spec laptops is always a challenge.
Nvidia still is the recommended/supported path to AI/Deep Learning tools with Pro so if you want to dive into that world you need a discrete Nvidia GPU.
Try to find the unicorn laptop - the one without the highest resolution screen, no webcam, plastic case, no RGB, etc so you spend the money on real specs that will make a difference. Dell, Asus & MSI have them every now & then. HP & Lenovo too on occasion but typically you have to spend a lot of time in the configurators and likely to end up with something not on sale.
Do your homework on CPU generations and nomenclature. Intel & AMD have gone off the rails with their naming & technology generation mix so double check CPU speed vs power envelope vs generation as retailers love to get rid of older generations during sales. One letter in a CPU code can mean the difference between a nuisance and a productivity monster.
Remember - there are no bad laptop, only bad prices.
