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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Gaming laptops have some of the worst builds. They break down very easily. This is why people go for Thinkpads and Elitebooks. I think that you can get yourself a 7th/8th gen Thinkpad Pxy, P1 or X1 Extreme series with a gDPU, and that would be a better deal - but do remember, they all have Nvidia dGPUs. And if you don't really need a dGPU, then there's the Thinkpad T series with the Ryzen processor.

[–] Mango -3 points 3 hours ago

What a terrible generalization based on pure fashion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Actually I kinda need a good GPU without destroying my bank account, I already have an IdeaPad1 R3 7th gen running Arch currently

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

why not a desktop? you get more performance for the price and you don't need to worry as much about nvidia power management, which seems like a pain from what I've seen

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Don't have space for it and I'm concern about power consumption

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Honestly I think the power bills would be similar with similar performance hardware, because you have to take into account battery losses with laptops.

that's fair that you don't have the space though

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I don't know what your use-case is, but as I've said before, you should look into these Thinkpad models:

2018:

  • P52s
  • P52
  • P72
  • P1 Gen 1
  • X1 Extreme Gen 1

2019:

  • P53s
  • P53
  • P73
  • P1 Gen 2
  • X1 Extreme Gen 2

2020:

  • P15 Gen 1
  • P15s Gen 1
  • P15v Gen 1
  • P17 Gen 1
  • P1 Gen 3
  • X1 Extreme Gen 3

All of them have the option of GPU. Make sure to ask for the relevant machine type or part number to validate if they really have what's inside of them - use that information to check on PSREF. Try to get at least a hexacore PC with more than or equal to 16GB of RAM. Avoid soldered RAM if possible - some of the newer ones that I've mentioned have them - because that way, you'll end up having to use RAM in Flex mode.