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MarkYork

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    MarkYork reacted to Bombastinator in Gaming laptop buying advice   
    Laptops are always a trade off between contents, size, build quality, and price.
    Low priced laptops with good specs tend to be more fragile for example.  Things that could impact:
    -Use case.  You want a gaming laptop, but is it actually just for gaming?  What kind of gaming?
    -budget. One can always get more stuff for more money but there tend to be diminishing  returns as price increases (or at the low end decreases) 
    -screen size/quality. Less or slower resolution, cheaper price.  Gaming laptops tend to be high refresh which is really needed for some kinds of games, but is near useless for anything else.  And there are costs for it.
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    MarkYork got a reaction from Wilbur Cobb in Performance issues with brand new laptop.   
    In my opinion, returning the laptop is your best choice. It seems Clevo has terrible control quality processes. It is highly possible that the problem you are experiencing is due to thermal cooling inefficiencies. In my experience, what I've noticed is that some vendors tend to use very poor quality thermal paste; sometimes replacing it solves the problem, but it could be an inherited cooling design problem. I would try replacing the thermal paste with a high grade one like Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut.
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    MarkYork got a reaction from Slottr in MacBook Pro 16" vs New Dell XPS 15" (or a budget laptop and gaming desktop)   
    I though about a gaming laptop, but they tend to be very heavy and battery life is usually pretty bad. I need something light and portable.
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