Good Gaming Laptop for College (Legion 5 vs Nitro 5)

[XaiGRS]

I'm going to college soon and will be needing a new laptop. I don't mind it being heavy so a gaming laptop is what I'm after. I'm majoring in computer science so a good display is good to have but not prioritized. I will be doing some gaming on my spare time (Valorant, War Thunder, and COD). Performance and Build Quality (in that order) are the things I'm looking for and a good keyboard is nice to have. I'm looking for something in the range of $700 to $900. I've found 2 laptops with in this price range. 
 

Lenovo Legion 5

• Ryzen 5 4600H
• GTX 1650Ti
• 16GB RAM
• 120hz display
• 256GB nvme ssd and a 1terabyte harddrive

Acer Nitro 5

• Ryzen 5 5600H
• GTX 1650
• 8GB RAM
• 144hz Display
• 512GB nvme SSD

I've seen JarrodTech's video on Youtube comparing Ryzen laptops and he said that the Legion 5 is the best all round one with great build quality. Let me know which you thing is the better option in terms of build quality and whether or not Zen 3 is worth it. If you have some other suggestions it would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[Sima01]

Seems like you can't go wrong with any of these, if have nitro 5 with Intel i5-9400H I think it is. And the end of the day, you can upgrade RAM but you can't upgrade your CPU so easily in a laptop so I would probably choose Nitro 5. You can probably easily add M.2, not sure but mine has an upgrade path open.

[Podrake]

I would go for the Legion 5, It has more storage, better graphics card, more ram, difference between 144hz and 120hz isn't that noticeable, and there is a tiny amount of performance difference between the 5600H and 4600H

[Latvian Video]

13 minutes ago, XaiGRS said:

I'm going to college soon and will be needing a new laptop. I don't mind it being heavy so a gaming laptop is what I'm after. I'm majoring in computer science so a good display is good to have but not prioritized. I will be doing some gaming on my spare time (Valorant, War Thunder, and COD). Performance and Build Quality (in that order) are the things I'm looking for and a good keyboard is nice to have. I'm looking for something in the range of $700 to $900. I've found 2 laptops with in this price range. 
 

Lenovo Legion 5

• Ryzen 5 4600H
• GTX 1650Ti
• 16GB RAM
• 120hz display
• 256GB nvme ssd and a 1terabyte harddrive

Acer Nitro 5

• Ryzen 5 5600H
• GTX 1650
• 8GB RAM
• 144hz Display
• 512GB nvme SSD

I've seen JarrodTech's video on Youtube comparing Ryzen laptops and he said that the Legion 5 is the best all round one with great build quality. Let me know which you thing is the better option in terms of build quality and whether or not Zen 3 is worth it. If you have some other suggestions it would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I would get the legion, it has a better gpu, more ram and more storage

[genexis_x]

L5 hands down.

[XaiGRS]

2 hours ago, genexis_x said:

L5 hands down.

Ive found an older y540 with an i5 9300h + 1660ti for 100$ more is it worth it?

[genexis_x]

18 minutes ago, XaiGRS said:

Ive found an older y540 with an i5 9300h + 1660ti for 100$ more is it worth it?

only GPU is better...not worth overall IMO