I was also recently in the market for a new laptop and by far a "gaming" one ended up being the best price/quality ratio. My 900$ gaming laptop is hugely more powerful than my 3000$ mbp which can barely run a VM.
Looking at reviews of those, I get the impression that although you get the performance, you lose the size / battery life / cooling. Yes, the gaming laptop is more powerful, but you probably want a laptop to sometimes work in public. With the gaming variant you end up with extra space for heat exhaust, lose the efficiency, and your hardware sounds like jet engine once you go over 50% CPU.