BearSole

Canada

I did take a look at the m15's before, they seemed to be the perfect fit, but once you start adding things on to them the price skyrockets (Canada). Thanks for the advice though, I'll look into it a little more.

Oh wait nevermind, I didn't see those other messages, thanks @dizmo

@dizmo I guess I didn't word that too well. I meant that a gaming laptop was a good fit because I'll know that it can without a doubt perform what I need it to. And also a game or two in my free time sounds like fun, ya know? And thank you for the advice about engineering. That probably is civil though, like you said. Mechatronics is a mix of electrical, mechanical, software, and robotics, so there's a huge market for mechatronics engineers, and they could also be placed in any of those four fields. Also, I'm curious about the same thing as @flashiling, why did they return their Razers?

I would build a small rig, it would definitely be better and probably cheaper for gaming. However, as an engineer I'll be mostly living in the labs and library. Spending all my time there. Which unfortunately means I have to pay the hefty premium for convenience of portability. What you said, @dizmo, about gaming and battery life not going together, doesn't the Razer Blade 15 have a pretty solid mix of the two? From what I understand it was ~6hrs of battery life, but I could be completely wrong. And thank you for the warm greetings!

I'm going into mechatronics engineering next year for university. My highschool has provided all students with Chromebooks through a deal with Google, but my Chromebook is starting to die quite quickly. I've been looking for a high quality laptop to replace, that I could also use for university level engineering, as well as playing some games. I've been looking at the Asus ROG Zephyrus, Razer Blade 15, and msi GS65 Stealth. In this laptop I'd want: -8/9th gen Intel i7 -NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti / RTX 2060 / RTX 2070 (2060 and 2070 can be Max-Q) -16+ GB of RAM -Either 1TB SSD, or 1TB HDD and additional 512GB SSD -m.2 SSD -Good air flow and cooling so it's not on fire every time I try to use CAD software -Backlit keyboard is always fun, but not absolutely necessary -Thin chassis highly preferred -Good battery (~6hrs) very highly preffered -15.6" inch screen, IPS If I could have any suggestions on which laptops would be a good fit for what I need, that would be super appreciated, or any suggestions on specs that I should or shouldn't have in it. Thank you!