Not really...
1 hr backup is too less...
Now a days with modern chip architecture, battery backup have improved quite a lot...
My 8 year old lenovo laptop gives more than 1 hr backup 🤪
depends on the budget too....
if he's going to use heavy graphical softwares then he would definitely need H series processor with dedicated gaphic card
and if needs to do hardcore coding too then a good processor atleast i7 of the latest generation