Looking for a gaming laptop with a good battery life for uni

[Alexmuffinton]

At the the moment I'm looking for a new gaming laptop for my freshman year of uni for comp sci/engi with a 6-12 hour battery life, I currently found three laptops with decent specs for the price.

 

• ASUS - ROG Zephyrus 14" Gaming Laptop - AMD Ryzen 9 - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
• Legion 5 Pro Gen 6 AMD (16”) - $1,699.99 with a ryzen 7 5800H - RTX 3060
• Legion Slim 7 Gen 6 (15" AMD) with a Ryzen 7 5800H- RTX 3060

 

Does anyone recommend any one of these laptops for their battery life? If so, whats your experience with the laptop?

If not, do you have any recommendations on a laptop with a good battery life and a good CPU/16gb Ram (I don't care if the GPU is an RTX or GTX card).

Lastly, my budget is just under $1,700 USD. I would prefer staying below the $1,500 price point to save a couple hundred bucks for uni.

[kelvinhall05]

Gaming laptop with good battery life? Funny joke...

 

Do you actually need a powerful dGPU in a portable package? If not, just stick with a Ryzen APU-based laptop.

[Alexmuffinton]

9 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Gaming laptop with good battery life? Funny joke...

 

Do you actually need a powerful dGPU in a portable package? If not, just stick with a Ryzen APU-based laptop.

Any recommendation on a ryzen APU laptop?  

[kelvinhall05]

12 minutes ago, Alexmuffinton said:

Any recommendation on a ryzen APU laptop?  

Thinkpad X13, T14(s), P14s. Tons of other models, both from Lenovo and others.

[genexis_x]

1 hour ago, Alexmuffinton said:

6-12 hour battery life

Depends on what u do with it...6 hrs is possible but 12 hrs...nope

 

If weight isn't a factor, Legion 5 Pro.

[atxcyclist]

I didn't buy quite as high of spec, but I just picked-up an Asus ROG G14 with the 4800HS and GTX 1650 about a week ago. When not gaming, I realistically do get about 10 hours when doing light web browsing/a little YouTube. It's a great little laptop and built well. The screen is pretty bright and the processor is exceptionally fast and blew me away in a laptop; I have a Ryzen 2700X in my desktop and the 4800HS actually scores better in Passmark testing. The fans are quite noticeable in gaming but it is to be expected, in "silent" mode it is really very quiet. The speakers sound great to my ears, though I am not familiar with newer laptops so they may be about expected at this price point. The trackpad is accurate with no deadness with small finger movements, the keyboard feels pretty good too although I don't know what kind of mechanism it uses, but there's essentially zero deck flex.

 

Full disclosure: I did utilize the one ram slot to get another 8gb in there to get it to 16gb with dual-channel operation, but that job was super easy if you're confident doing the work yourself. 8GB of 3200mhz Crucial RAM was all of $69 on Amazon. 

[sgarg0310]

You could also have a look at the Omen 15 2021 version which has a 3060 and Ryzen 5 5600H, it may not be the best of the best but apparently it has good battery life. Might just do the trick for you and save you a couple bucks.

[genexis_x]

18 hours ago, sgarg0310 said:

but apparently it has good battery life

70Wh vs 80Wh in Legion?