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I'm in the market for a laptop for general use and light to medium gaming. I have a budget of $750 USD and what I'm looking for is 13.5"+ screen size, battery life isnt as important, FHD IPS panel is preferred but mainly a FHD panel, touchscreen with stylus support is also preferred but not very important. Currently I've been looking into a refurb Surface Book with the performance base but I'd like something newer with a little more power for if I need it. 

CPU: Intel I7 8700K Coffee Lake 6 core 12 threads

MOBO: ASUS ROG Strix Z-370E

GPU: ASUS ROG Strix GTX1080

RAM: 32GB DDR4 G.SKILL TridentZ 3000Mhz

Storage: Kingston 120GB SSD, 1TB WD Blue HDD, and Intel 660p M.2 NVME 1TB

PSU: Seasonic PRIME Ultra 850W Titanium 80+

Cooler: Corsair Hydro H115I Pro

Case: ThermalTake P5

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Just now, Rileypoio said:

What games are you wanting to play?

a cheap intel laptop is an Acer aspire of some sort with inter grated graphics for light gaming like roblox and that

Stardew valley with a friend and generally nothing too power hungry, dont plan on playing Escape From Tarkov or Stellaris on it since that might break something

CPU: Intel I7 8700K Coffee Lake 6 core 12 threads

MOBO: ASUS ROG Strix Z-370E

GPU: ASUS ROG Strix GTX1080

RAM: 32GB DDR4 G.SKILL TridentZ 3000Mhz

Storage: Kingston 120GB SSD, 1TB WD Blue HDD, and Intel 660p M.2 NVME 1TB

PSU: Seasonic PRIME Ultra 850W Titanium 80+

Cooler: Corsair Hydro H115I Pro

Case: ThermalTake P5

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If you want a good touchscreen with good pen support, you aren't getting good peformance (not for your budget anyway).

 

 

I do think that a used/refurb Surface of some sort would be perfect for you though.

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CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X Motherboard: MSI B450-A Pro Max RAM: 32GB I forget GPU: MSI Vega 56 Storage: 256GB NVMe boot, 512GB Samsung 850 Pro, 1TB WD Blue SSD, 1TB WD Blue HDD PSU: Inwin P85 850w Case: Fractal Design Define C Cooling: Stock for CPU, be quiet! case fans, Morpheus Vega w/ be quiet! Pure Wings 2 for GPU Monitor: 3x Thinkvision P24Q on a Steelcase Eyesite triple monitor stand Mouse: Logitech MX Master 3 Keyboard: Focus FK-9000 (heavily modded) Mousepad: Aliexpress cat special Headphones:  Sennheiser HD598SE and Sony Linkbuds

 

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