An editing laptop typically has the same components. This is close to $2K and meets and exceeds the requirement:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/ ... x2070.htmlI have an older version I have edited on. You could spend as little as$699 at B&H and get something that would work, and you would have the $ left to max out the RAM and the solid state drives. It’s only an i5
Spending the 2K on just the computer does not an edit suite make. Add a 4K monitor, a mike/mixing board, there’s lots to buy.
Hope this helps. On a personal note, I use the basic 27” iMac with upgrades to RAM and hard drive. The computer alone is over your budget and I have not added the external RAIDS , you don’t need A RAID but Ryan to keep the drives in Thunderbolt 3, and use the NMVE version.
Good luck.
I also should tell you there is upgradability for atleast another SSD