Is a sub $900 or 1.200 laptop enough for raw and/or 4k in Davinci?

I shoot with a digital bolex and a gx80, transcoding to prores and/or shooting 1080 when I need to to edit my own footage. So I am now looking for a machine that I can rely to use Davinci not heavily, but extensively... I need a laptop, and in doubt if a gtx1050ti GPU is enough, or if I should find a gtx1070 (since gtx1060 usually does not compensate). I have seen people using using laptops with proper GPU, and read loads of discussions on gaming forums, but wanted to hear experience

I can help you at least with Resolve. I switched from Premiere a couple of years ago so I cannot comment on Premiere. I edit 90% of my stuff a combination of 1Dx II MJPEG 4k 30-60p and h264 4k 30-60p (Drone stuff) on a gaming notebook (Asus Rog) i7 7700 HQ with GTX 1070 and it is fine. The h264 material I convert through optimize media, the MJPEG I edit them natively without conversion. The new 14 studio version should do h264 decoding in the GPU (Nvidia, windows only) so I hopefully I may