Wow Walrus, that sounds a massive pc/laptop, why did you need 32 gb of memory?
Dub-c, the most important is to buy a laptop that runs Windows (and not Android), the other components will be enough for wa
Another question is whether you will play on an external keyboard or not. If not then you need to risk a little (I suppose you can't try it out before) if it will be convenient and won't have key lags. I write that because on my old Toshiba notebook I can't play w:a with the keys I am used to, because they have weird lags.. however when I replace keys to x and z then it works ok.
About brands:Unfortunately it seems that the manufacturer of a notebook matters a lot. My Toshiba has that weird kb bug, but it seems to be indestructible. As I see Asus produces really cheap chinese products: my sister had 2 Asus laptops, both died in about 2 years and the brand new Asus laptop of my boss is dieing already with blue screens. HP: i don't know their newest products, but HP was famous of how much it heated and how loud it was. Lenovo: sooner it was said that it had the best keyboard after macbook, but nowadays it seems like not. I know 2 people who is using Lenovo laptops and keys are jumping out, so roping on it might not be a good idea. Acer: it was the cheap and low quality laptop back then and it is still cheap usually, but I heard they developed, but I have never used one so I don't know about them.
So to sum up, I guess unfortunately every brands have pros and cons too. Personally I would not go for Asus (and maybe Lenovo neither) :/
About the components:I guess you will use the pre-installed windows on the laptop, so it will be Windows 10 and it requires at least 4gb of memory to run smooth (I guess you can't even buy a new laptop with less memory anyway, but if yes, then don't get it
). SSD is a very fast thing to store your data and it will make your laptop really very fast, but it is more expensive than a HDD so you will get less space for the same price. There are on besbuy.ca some laptops with really little SSDs, which might be fast, but I guess not enough to store movies for example. Usually the biggest SSD you can get for a low price is 120GB. If that's not enough for you then you should go for a 500GB or 1TB HDD. For CPU i would go for Intel: AMD is unfortunately far behind of Intel in technology. So there are Intel Celeron, Pentium, i3, i5 and i7 processors which will define the price of the laptop the most. Celeron and Pentium ones are kinda slow, but for w:a enough, however you shouldn't expect any miracle from those: windows might not response fast sometimes.
That was just a basic knowledge which is good to know before buying a laptop. We need to know your budget to recommend you one.
ps.: If I was incorrect somewhere then feel free to correct me, coz I don't want to give bad advices