Hi @rscalma2000, it looks very good. I don’t have a specific model recommendation (8GB will be very good, 16 GB will be excellent).
However for speed I recommend to buy laptop and monitor in pairs. A second screen is required for faster development.
The thing you should take a look here is that the laptop and screen do not have a different DPI when it comes to display. I’ve seen very few cases when setting a “scaled” resolution on the development environment would cause troubles when porting the automation. This applies to the production environment too because for hardware UI Automation is useless to develop in 1920*1200 and port it to weak production environments. We have customers that have the dev and prod env in cloud on virtual machines that supports the same specs.
Shortly, please test the laptop/screen and production environment.