This is where I'm at too. I was in the market for a gaming laptop due to some traveling for work I was doing. Picked up an MSI Alpha 15 with a R7 4800H and 5600m. My plan was to get a card when I get home in a few months, but the way the world is going....ehhhh
The dumb thing was I sold my 5700xt out of my main rig when prices were climbing again. I struck too soon, turned a profit, but nowhere near what I could have gotten now. My whole plan was sit on the profit and wait until prices fell. It kills me that I have a perfectly good rig sitting there, and I can't even find a reasonable budget card to pop in just to get it moving again. Oh the hindsight....so now I'm a laptop gamer.
I'm looking at deals such as:
11th gen i7, 140w 3070, $1,499
Ryzen 9 5900HX, 6800m, $1,649
I can't overlook that I'm getting an entire system for the price of one of these over-inflated parts. But I can actually get these systems *now.* I don't need to play games, or screw around with e-bay. At this point I'm probably just going to get one of these laptops to upgrade over my current one, and just plug it into all my peripherals that used to be connected to my desktop rig. Sadfase.