Buying Advice

Wellingtonzed · November 1, 2022

Right. So unfortunately, my laptop is dying. It wont start up unless plugged in, and even then sometimes. Have to wait or mash the button a bit. So, time to buy a new gaming laptop.

My budget cap is 2-2.2K Canadian.

I was in need of something reasonably powerful-ish, yet sleek and portable so I was initially looking at this as a starter: https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/p/laptops/legion-laptops/legion-7-series/legion-slim-7-gen-7-(16-inch-amd)/len101g0019

Lenovo Slim 7 with 6800H and Radeon 6800S GPU. Brand new and barely any reviews unfortunately. Ticks all the boxes and its performance is solid. DDR5 4800mhz memory too as a bonus. Though the sample size for the 6800S is basically the Zephyrus G14 so not much to go by in terms of performance figures, but its about an RTX3070 or RTX3070 TI depending on the wattage variant. And I do prefer AMD CPU machines because of the extra battery life off the wall, but open to intel too.

https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/p/laptops/legion-laptops/legion-5-series/legion-5i-gen-7-(15-inch-intel)/82rb0055us Legion 5i is good too.

Do you have any other similar devices at the price?

Alternatively, should I try and wait out for the 4000-series and Ryzen 7000? 4060 would do the trick, and next gen 7000s series should be notably better.

PS: No Asus or Alienware machines. Alienware likes burn itself to death, and Asus quality control is notoriously awful. Great cutting edge machines, but they die in like 3-4 years. As an example, mine is a GA502(2019). First model I got had a defective motherboard. Then I got a new one(under warranty), which a few months later the bearings for a fan failed. Still works but sounds like a chainsaw even on silent. Then my motherboard(again, on a new machine) failed and I lost everything. Had to factory reset it. And now its dying on me. Asus is ass. In hindsight, I should have noticed all the forum posts on "-insert asus model here- failing help me!!!" on the internet.

Lenovo is preferred for the reliability. Sorry for being picky, but im not making another $1500 dollar mistake again.

Thanks.