I know I’m looking for 16” screen, RTX 4070, and AMD under $2K, so I guess what I’m really asking about are brand recommendations. Who is worth the $$ and who sucks?
Gaming laptop recommendation
- Thread starter MarkL
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The Dell G16 fits in budget, but it's... quirky. I have 16 of them (don't ask) and will happily answer questions if it makes your short list.
Main considerations:
Intel/nVidia only.
Power brick is a massive barrel connector unit, replacements are expensive if you want to use the laptop in multiple places without schlepping power supplies back and forth. As per usual for a gaming system, battery life is really, really bad and worse if you're using the GPU.
Keycaps are printed "upside down." The shifted character legend on a normal keyboard is above the main character or on the right normally. On these the shifted character is below the normal character for no reason other than to be different. If you're not a ninja-level touch-typist, keys like the back-tick/tilde or the bracket/curly brace keys might be confusing.
Main considerations:
Intel/nVidia only.
Power brick is a massive barrel connector unit, replacements are expensive if you want to use the laptop in multiple places without schlepping power supplies back and forth. As per usual for a gaming system, battery life is really, really bad and worse if you're using the GPU.
Keycaps are printed "upside down." The shifted character legend on a normal keyboard is above the main character or on the right normally. On these the shifted character is below the normal character for no reason other than to be different. If you're not a ninja-level touch-typist, keys like the back-tick/tilde or the bracket/curly brace keys might be confusing.
OrangeCream
Ars Legatus Legionis
Someone with budget discretion is no longer allowed to buy hardware without passing it past IT first. Especially if we don't catch it before the return period is up...
OrangeCream
Ars Legatus Legionis
Well it's a pinkie-promise due to how their group is funded, but I don't think they want a repeat of this fiasco, going had in hand trying to resell the laptops internally. Anyway back on topic.
Today I pulled the trigger on the Lenovo Legion Pro 5 w/AMD Ryzen 7 and RTX 4070 and 32GB RAM. It's combination of features, price, and reliability (we use Lenovo hardware at work and they are solid machines) made it a good choice.
I will say, it's storage options are a little weak .. you can only configure a max of 2 x 1TB SSD drives so I ordered a Samsung 990 Pro 4TB from online at the same time.
Thanks for everyone's contributions!
I will say, it's storage options are a little weak .. you can only configure a max of 2 x 1TB SSD drives so I ordered a Samsung 990 Pro 4TB from online at the same time.
Thanks for everyone's contributions!
Alienware and Razer.
They're stupidly overpriced vs Lenovo and Asus options
One of my friends had issues with her HP Omen laptop when she was using it for gaming and Blender work. The poor fans would spin up as fast as they could and it was blowing air out like a hair dryer, but it still couldn't keep up and would eventually thermally throttle pretty heavily. I think hers was a 2019 or 2020 vintage? I can find out the exact model if anyone is interested.
Going by whole brand is probably too coarse, but keeping an eye/ear out for known specific models that are problematic might be reasonable.