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ZippoLag

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  1. Hi! So, I know electronics manufacturing's fucked up in several ways (e.g. the mines of precious metals required being in war zones or impoverished areas; the cheapest labour for assembly being almost sweatshops in eastern countries; toxic waste and energy consumed in the manufacturing process..), however, some brands seem to be making honest efforts to reduce their negative impact in many ways so, I wonder: why aren't we as consumers paying more attention to this? I totally get that it's complicated to include this information in reviews because brands will probably not like if you expose them and not send you any parts/machines to reviews, but.. Shouldn't we at least promote the ones with good reputation? On that note, does anyone know which indexes are actually reliable, complete, and up-to-date? These are pretty much the only ones I could find for laptops: https://thegoodshoppingguide.com/subject/pcs-laptops-and-tablets/ https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/technology/shopping-guide/laptops
  2. Hi everyone! So, I'm going to sound like the typical "just creating an account to ask a question on a potentially dead thread", but: is there any reason why there isn't any Acer laptop in the reccommendations in the first page? There are quite a few models with RTX GPUs now. Are they bad in some way? Or is the first post just outdated? I'll tell you the truth, I'm looking for "the cheapest RTX laptop that won't melt itself". At first I was looking at both the Acer Nitro 5 and MSI GF65 at first, but forums are plagued with complains that point to a need to undervolt or otherwise touch configurations that sound like poor planning work on part of the manufacturers (I know they are cheap, I know it's a lot of power in a small package, but still, they should come "ready to use" from factory IMHO). So, I decided to up my budget a bit more and soon enough I found that both MSI GP65 and Acer's Predator Helios 300 also now come with an RTX 2060 option, and I couldn't find any overheating complains on them, but still.. (although I did find some "randomly burned components" complains on the Predator) So, as you can tell by now, I tend to pussyfoot around a lot before making big investments like this (it takes a while to amass this kind of cash around where I live) so I want to make sure I'm not shooting myself in the foot with my choice. So far I'm torn between those two laptops, with the only pro's for MSI beign the 64GB RAM upper limit (future thinking I guess?) and the steel series keyboard (with per-key RGB which I don't really care about); while Acer's got the best "ethical brand" score, better connector placement PS: I almost go with a Clevo, but I'm not finding anything in Amazon that's worth stepping out of the known-brand comfort zone (except for the Sager NP7858DW, which I can't find any info on thermals but is extremely tempting anyway) Any input is much appreciated, I haven't bought any hardware in years so I may be missing something obvious and be sounding like an idiot.
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