At some point he will stop eating for a few seconds and stare at it.
This is an indicator that he got to the section that describes what is in the sausage.
Then he will shrug his shoulders, decides it tastes great and he will continue eating and reading.
I would favour an AMD Ryzen 7000 based laptop. Much better battery life than Intel and better graphics performance.
Lenovo ThinkPad T and P series are excellent build quality.
Asus Zenbooks or Expertbooks with OLED screens are also excellent. Displays are on par, or superior to Macbooks. Excellent colour accuracy.
Make sure you get something with at least 16GB of Ram, or 32GB if available.