For some time now I have wanted to buy a new laptop to produce music with.
I use "FL Studio" for beats and recordings.
It shouldn't be a Mac.
Unfortunately I don't know what a laptop has to bring with it to be suitable for producing music.
What does the laptop have to have? What can you do without?
I've seen a lot of Genius producers using Razer or just a gaming laptop.
You need a good processor. The best is a Ryzen 7
16 GB RAM and ne SSD are important. Processor should be fast for larger projects. Most daws do not have multicore support, but rather something from Intel. You are already well served with your current i5
