Using a gaming laptop for my production. Mostly because I fucked up my desktop with too much porn. It's an ASUS G55VW from 2012. I'm not into modern hardware, but used to be, and I have always assembled or modified my own desktops - I was completely against laptops, especially for music production. But this one has no real hardware limitation, using Cubase. It has an i7, 8 GB of RAM and I installed a 1TB HDD inside instead of the original 500 GB.
I sometimes have over a hundred tracks in a project with seperate plug-ins, mostly because I can't be arsed to resample much, and never have I experienced latency or other perfomance issues related to hardware.
The only limitations for electronic music production, that I see with a laptop is the lack of monitor-adjustment. Having only one monitor, 15", sometimes really suck when you have to switch from the outline/whateveryoucallit to the mixer or other areas. This is the only part where the GPU/video card comes in handy in music production: Most onboard GPUs only support one monitor (Depends on amount of output ports on your card).
I don't know if this was a useless rant for OP, but hope it was worth something. In reality, the only thing you should worry about now, is how your hardware will affect your production. Every DAW has its' strengths and weaknesses, and usually it's the user who sets them. I for instance love Cubase, although it took a while to learn compared to some other DAWs, and a lot of people use FL, and logic stating it is much simpler. Try them out for yourself. I believe FL studio, Cubase and Reason support trial versions.
And I just, after two years of playing around, got my first MIDI-keyboard with controllers. For the love of God/Skrillex (loljk), get one. It makes the creative process so much more intiuitive.
