Another thread for people looking for advices in buying a new laptop.
Has anyone bought a new laptop recently? What did you get, and what's it like to use?
Laptop Purchase General - /lpg/
Wyatt Hill
Isaac Bennett
Im not gay
Kayden Roberts
What is the smallest laptop with a dedicated gpu?
Prize doesn't matter.
Tyler Thompson
dell xps 15 9560
its ass, it throttles cpu to 800mhz under any sort of combined load cpu+gpu, keyboard is meh, it has one of the slowest nvme ssd on the market, 1080p mate display despite having nice colors have really bad response time so there is visable ghosting, wifi card needs propraitery drivers and there is no Ethernet port(gl installing debian on this thing), broken acpi spec, gtx 1050 has like 1/5 of windows performance under gnu/linux with proprietary drivers and nouveau doesn't even work with pascal gpus
Gabriel Brooks
I'm waiting for the 7nm Ryzen mobile processors to be released before committing to a new a laptop.
Robert Gutierrez
That's a gold hat, cool cat
Evan Gutierrez
what is the opinion xiaomi laptops for long time use. I am talking about 3-4 years of non gaming use.
Brayden Walker
Which one? I some of their product are pretty good quality, I think it might last 4 years of light use, as long as you take care of it.
Owen Russell
HP Elitebook 830 G5 (i7-8650u, 8gb ram, 256gb ssd, 1080p 120hz)
It's an alright laptop with a decent build quality. Trackpoint on it is not too useful due to having only two mouse buttons instead of 3 like on a ThinkPad but the trackpad quality makes up for it. Biggest downside is the lack of a MicroSD slot since I don't like carrying adapters around with me.
Jace Campbell
is there a real point for buying anything other than an acer aspire 5 (599Eur) with a max budget of 1000Eur?
the next best thing I can see is a thinkpad L480 (899Eur), which has max 32 GB RAM (20 in the acer), weighs slightly less, has slightly more battery life, has a very slightly brighter screen, but I don't think it's worth the extra 300Eur
everything else has either no upgradable RAM or dim, glossy screens
the build quality on the acer is even above average, I have no need for mil spec, I'm not toting my shit around a construction site
and used is out of the question, 8250u is too big an improvement over the previous generation to go used