Thread 105945656

what gaming laptop should I buy? shill your gaming laptop here

simple thread, I will take your suggestion and just go and buy it tomorrow

inb4
>gaming
>laptop

I don't have a permanent home and travel 10 months out of the year for work, so yes...gaming laptop. Please share the best gaming laptop under $3000, and I will buy it.

I enjoyed my rog Zephyrus for several years but its dying and the video card is badly out of date, so its time again.

Thanks.

>>105945656 (OP)
What games do you want to play? Do you mind dropping the graphics to medium?
Id suggest a laptop with a 4060, it's an ok card that draws little power. You can probably find one for less than 1500

>>105945656 (OP)
I'd look for the following
>fast and reliable ssd with at least 1tb
>32 gb ram minimum, more desired
>powerful enough gpu
>no idea what to look for in a modern cpu
>good enough airflow and cooling
>no midget screens

>>105945656 (OP)
Probably just another ROG if you liked it

>>105945697
are the 50 series cards overkill or something?

>>105945656 (OP)
gayming laptops that have these powerful gpus that draw 200+watts get super hot
and as a result they wear down so fucking easy.

Just get a nintendo switch 2 for games and a thinkpad for work

>>105945799
I'm not buying a colorful little plastic toy and I enjoy complicated strategy games and modding, making mods, and you cannot do that with a nintendo. It's not an option.

>>105945783
Too expensive

>>105945753
Useless post. You'd want a GPU that isn't too weak? A screen not too small? The cooling shouldn't be bad?

>>105945656 (OP)
>>105945830
You talk like a fag

>>105945656 (OP)
If you aren't even remotely concern about like heat destroying the components, by design by the way.
Just buy the one with an RTX 5090.

>>105945656 (OP)
silver macbook air + oled steam deck

>>105945656 (OP)

I bought a gigabyte aero 15 about 3 years ago, i7 10th gen, 32gbs ram, 1.5tb ssds, gtx 3060, oled screen, runs good and never had issues with it.

I would recommend getting something with an oled screen and a high end amd processor and a high end nvidia graphics card 8gbs or more of vram.

avoid anything with a 12th gen and above intel processor.

>>105945656 (OP)
buy a steamdeck instead. unless you are playing tripple A slop you dont need more.
>BUT I NEED MORE!!!
then your taste is terminal.

>>105945656 (OP)
OP, gaming laptops with a discrete GPU are a mistake

enjoy your 45 minute battery life, egg-cooking lap heat, and loud fan noise

OP -- if you really want a gaming PC, do yourself a favor get the AMD "Strix Point" or newer "Strix Halo" "Ryzen AI" series. AMD has really changed the game and iGPUs are no longer a joke.

The AMD APU's are starting to get really good. I'm literally posting this on a Steam Deck (which uses older-gen Zen 2 APUs) and I've been surprised by how well this little thing can perform. And it doesn't get hot or noisy, which is a real concern for mobile devices.

>>105947290
By gaming PC I meant gaming laptop.

This is the review you need to see.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-ROG-Flow-Z13-GZ302EA-Convertible-Review-AMD-s-Strix-Halo-GPU-is-neck-and-neck-with-the-RTX-4070-Laptop.963266.0.html

The Ryzen AI Max+ 395 is on par with a discrete RTX 4070m GPU. But unlike the 4070m, the Ryzen APU can take advantage of ALL of your system RAM. So if you get the 64/128GB variant you also have a powerful local LLM inference machine.

OP, don't listen to the indians who can only buy old gaming laptops and don't recommend a DGPU in your laptop. Modern gaming laptops have a feature called advanced optimus which allows the dgpu to turn off dynamically. Combine this with something like UXTU to lower your cpus voltage and underclock it and you can even have long battery life while gaming. I get 5 hours of hollow knight on my laptop for example. I recommend a legion 7 or legion slim 7 laptop, they are the same, the legion slim 7 was just renamed to legion 7 with the newer gens. The latest AMD model has a 4060 (with a great IGPU too) is the legion slim 7 gen 8 AMD and the Intel version is already at gen 10 and has a 5060 available. Oh and Strix Halo, the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip is a meme. Way too expensive, has gaming performance which is at best as good as the 4060 though I can see that 4K gaming might give the chip the win.

>>105945656 (OP)
ROG
I don't trust anyone else with gaming laptops they are the only ones that actually give a shit

>>105947551
Legion power connectors seem a bit fragile.

>>105947551
What exactly is a meme about these levels of performance? For mobile compute and gaming, APUs are the future. OP is literally traveling all the time, so a dGPU is a poor choice for battery life. His budget is "under $3K" and Ryzen AI Max 395+ fits the bill with its RDNA 3.5 graphics capabilities.

>>105947598
Personally haven't had a problem and never heard of it
>>105947984
As I have mentioned, the dgpu can turn off. Check the power draw of that asus flow z13 or whatever its called that has that APU. On idle it pulls 8-10 watts and like 15-20 on light loads. It is the same for my legion slim 7 gen 8 amd. Now of course my dgpu has to be off for that but don't think if you have something graphically demanding on the APU that it won't also pull a ton of power. Strix halo is disappointing. Don't get me wrong, before I got my laptop I was thinking of waiting for strix halo but it ended up literally only being as good as a rtx 4060 laptop while costing like 50% more and not having a lot of device choices. Only benefit I agree with is llms but Nvidia is still best choice there at least in terms of compatibility

>>105949602
On a second look it looks like the ROG Flow Z13 with the Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 has similar battery performance compared to the RTX 4070m. Looks like it edges out over the 4070m in actual gaming benchmarks though.

Agreed about the compatibility, Nvidia is one step ahead but FSR is becoming fairly universal these days and FSR 3.1 framegen is competent. The real issue is the need to run Linux to get full use of those LLMs, as the performance on Windows is much slower using AMD. Fortunately with Proton, Linux users can still enjoy Windows games with great performance.

I'm a big fan of APUs ever since getting on Steam Deck, someone in this thread suggested Macbook pro + steam deck, personally I think that is an OK option too, if a little bit device heavy.