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Laptop for a incoming college student

I'm going to be heading off to college soon to start my engineering degree, and I'm wondering what laptop I should get since I don't want to carry around my strix hero three. 

 

The ideal laptop:15inches, solid keyboard and trackpad, 6+hours of battery life, thunderbolt 3 so I can slap a external gpu for some gaming after classes, at least 1tb of storage and 16gb of upgradeable ram. If you need more details just lmk

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Oh, I don't leave for several months, still in highschool rn, so I won't mind saving

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Check the new dell xps, they’re the king of thin and light and the athena rated ones are guaranteed 10 hours of battery.

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2 minutes ago, AzrealNoctis said:

I'm going to be heading off to college soon to start my engineering degree, and I'm wondering what laptop I should get since I don't want to carry around my strix hero three. 

 

The ideal laptop:15inches, solid keyboard and trackpad, 6+hours of battery life, thunderbolt 3 so I can slap a external gpu for some gaming after classes, at least 1tb of storage and 16gb of upgradeable ram. If you need more details just lmk

Honestly, I would consider keeping the Strix in your room, and getting a thin and light style laptop to take to class... College is a lot more walking/talking/etc then you think, well, at least mine and most people I know it was.

 

I had a 13 in macbook since it fit that bill, and it served me well with Windows 7 on it. Then I had my actual PC in my room for gaming and heavy lifting. Its really hard to have a do it all laptop for college in my opinion...

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Do you need the laptop now? Preferred max weight in kg/lbs? Where are you from?

Desktop specs:

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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Alright, now we have a tie between the Dell XPS 15 with the gtx 1650 or the Razer blade 15, what would be the pros and cons of each?

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19 hours ago, AzrealNoctis said:

Alright, now we have a tie between the Dell XPS 15 with the gtx 1650 or the Razer blade 15, what would be the pros and cons of each?

Neither are good options, therefore comparison isn't needed

Desktop specs:

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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2 minutes ago, genexis_x said:

Neither are good options, therefore comparison isn't needed

Why do you say that?

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On 1/12/2020 at 2:02 PM, AzrealNoctis said:

The ideal laptop:15inches, solid keyboard and trackpad, 6+hours of battery life, thunderbolt 3 so I can slap a external gpu for some gaming after classes, at least 1tb of storage and 16gb of upgradeable ram. If you need more details just lmk

If you need the laptop now: May I know where are you from? Budget? Preferred max weight in kg/lbs?

Desktop specs:

Spoiler

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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