I am a retired lawyer who has built his own pc desktop computers for 25 years. My other hobby is photography (Z6ii & Z50, and shelves full of F and Z lenses) and printing museum quality inkjets (Cannon Pro 10 and Pro 1000) for artists - my wife is a world class oil portrait artist.

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1. all prebuilt/retail pc's have serious compromises.
2. I rebuild every 2 years, I am rebuilding 2 of 3 now, and I sell off those as I rebuild.
3. Late model components are very expensive - DDR5 memory, 10gb ethernet, Intel 12th gen CPU I9 12900F unlocked, Nvidia GTX 3080 Video Cards, 32mb G.Skill 6000mhz ram, ASUS PCIe Gen 5 motherboards, Gen 5 M2 SSD drives on a stick, etc.

Buy after all of that NEW extremely expensive stuff, and I love it, even moderately overclocked, you will not get beyond 5 - .2-3 Ghz speed.

For a great deal less money, about 50% less, you can go back 2 generations of each of them (EXCEPT the M2 SSD 2 tb drives), and process your photos and print them to your hearts content at 4.7-8.0 mhz.

Trust my opinion, I do it every day. The only item that needs "beefing" up is the power supply (min 1200 watts), and the fans which are relatively cheap (Noctua is the best).

For printing I do many tif's that are more than 100-300mb, 300-600 dpi, 16bit , or more. The processing time is less than 10 seconds.

I use 3 calibrated photography monitors (refurbished) (27-32-27) from BENQ.

I am not a gamer. After all these years, I would not use a laptop BECAUSE there are few if any interchangeable parts.

Suggestion for Valerie find someone to build one for you after doing research - know what you are doing! or buy one being replaced by an advanced user that you can observe live, and test on site, before buying.

For example, I sell my used parts on Craigslist - Pensacola/Mobile.

This is not a solicitation. Just sharing my knowledge and experience.

That Gizmodo article on Intel processors you linked is from 2017. That’s some fairly useless advice.
An awful lot of recommendations in here to purchase graphics cards. I’m on my second computer without graphics cards. I don’t think they are needed unless you are playing games. Especially considering the current costs. Wait until the current multi-year run on them by bitcoin miners slacks off and the prices drop. There just isn’t that much to gain from them in Lightroom.
32gb RAM is plenty.
The guy wants a new computer. Give him advice on what to buy, don’t chastise him for wanting to upgrade a dinosaur machine.

Another avenue to take. I know you have a $3000 budget. My last three computers have been off-lease Dell Precision desktop towers. Currently a T7500 with higher end dual Xeon processors, 96 gig of DDR 3 ram and internal space for 4 drives. Came with all the components needed but I swapped some of them out with my already owned parts that worked to this machine. Cost plus shipping - $525 through Ebay recyclers. When these machines were originally spec'ed and sold by Dell, they were professional engineering CAD machines. The ram upgrade was probably $3000 alone. Each CPU alone cost more than I paid for the entire machine. My prior 64 gig machine came out of a brokerage investment house and it was wired for 6 monitors (3 video cards with splitter cables).
In this time of severe shortages for new components, this should hold you for the next three years until things loosen up again.
Your requirements are also driven by the file sizes coming out of your camera. I had to upgrade systems when I went from a D200 to a D600. Then from the D600 to the D800. And lastly when I bought the D850. Each progression put it's own stresses on the system I had at the time.
Plus the preceived loss in value (Depreciation) over time is minimal with this approach. $500 or $3000?