I started playing Total War with Empire Total War. Back then my computer was an office computer and it ran very bad. I managed to save some money to build myself a gaming computer to play Empire and Napoleon Total War, the only games I played but I did not have much money to do so, however, they ran decently.
Currently because of my job I need a laptop as I am moving from place to place. However I play at home, not on business trips. I have a MSI gaming laptop which cost me 2000€ back in 2020. It was a big effort but overall I am happy with performance. My Laptop has GPU Nvidia RTX 2070 Super mobile, I was thinking about getting a new one but I don´t see such big improvement on new GPUs, basically the lowest one which worths the update would be RTX 4070.
I am wondering which is the profile of Total War players. I imagine someone with big purchasing power able to afford expensive computers + monitors, because Total War games, most of them, are very demanding and I usually see videos on youtube of people streaming with very stable and high fps.