"Gaming laptop" versus "non-gaming" laptop

jkbergner · June 18, 2019

So I'm pretty new to the world of PCs and laptops. I'm going off to college, and I was wondering if a laptop that's oriented towards gamers would perform as well when compared to a laptop that's meant more for the typical person. Specifically, I was looking at the zephyrus ga502 (gaming) and the dell inspiron 4k (non-gaming). I figured that because they're both *relatively* similar prices, than I might as well go for the zephyrus so I can game on it, as well as use it for school work. Does my rationale make sense, or would the zephyrus be ill-suited for classwork?

Enderman · June 18, 2019

'gaming' doesn't really mean anything, it's just for marketing.

you can get regular work oriernted laptops that game just fine because they have a dedicated gpu, and you can get 'gaming' laptops that do literally the exact same that regular laptops can do.

Instead of paying attention to the marketing go look at the specs list and read reviews.

Super Spartan · June 18, 2019

47 minutes ago, jkbergner said:

So I'm pretty new to the world of PCs and laptops. I'm going off to college, and I was wondering if a laptop that's oriented towards gamers would perform as well when compared to a laptop that's meant more for the typical person. Specifically, I was looking at the zephyrus ga502 (gaming) and the dell inspiron 4k (non-gaming). I figured that because they're both *relatively* similar prices, than I might as well go for the zephyrus so I can game on it, as well as use it for school work. Does my rationale make sense, or would the zephyrus be ill-suited for classwork?

Gaming just means it has a proper and dedicated GPU. Rest all depends on specs, as in, what CPU, how much and how fast is the RAM, storage options etc.

I recommend the Dell XPS 15 or ASUS Zephyrus or MSI P65

If you get it from HIDevolution which I highly recommend due to their superb quality control and customer service plus their thermal mods which IMO is a MUST in today's laptops. In the laptop configurator, select "Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut + Fujipoly Extreme Thermal Pads", that upgrade by itself which only costs around 90 bucks reduces temps by up to 15c!