Picking a laptop for work.

[Jack Grobbelaar]

Hi people im in a conundrum here, first off I have a beasty desktop, but I travel alot and would like to do some dev work on the go, in unreal 5 specifically. I was looking into buying a RTX 3060 laptop since when it comes to laptops it seems like the best bang for buck. So on the one hand there is the HP Omen 16 , with a core i5 11400H 16Gb 3200MT (I think) with a rtx 3060 100W GPU, and on the other there is the Asus tuff A17 with the bit larger display at 17" compared to the omens 16", you get a ryzen 7 6800H with 8Gb DDR 5 at 4800MT with a rtx 3060 140W. But I dont like that the laptop screams GAMER, also i live in south africa and stuff here is super exspensive so i can add an exstra 8Gb stick in the Tuff that brings the price to R26 500 that is 1526 USD and the Hp Omen is 1340 USD, What to do, also I have my own ssds. Both has a 1080p display 144hz.

 

ASUS 90NR0972-M001C0 TUF GAMING A17

 

OMEN by HP Laptop 16-b0012ni

 

Edited December 8, 2022 by Jack Grobbelaar

[Jack Grobbelaar]

I also forgot to add that the Tuff has a Mux switch where as the Omen dont.

 

[NF-A12x25]

the tuf is a much better laptop once u add that 8gb more ram

[DemiGod]

37 minutes ago, Jack Grobbelaar said:

Hi people im in a conundrum here, first off I have a beasty desktop, but I travel alot and would like to do some dev work on the go, in unreal 5 specifically. I was looking into buying a RTX 3060 laptop since when it comes to laptops it seems like the best bang for buck. So on the one hand there is the HP Omen 16 , with a core i5 11400H 16Gb 3200MT (I think) with a rtx 3060 100W GPU, and on the other there is the Asus tuff A17 with the bit larger display at 17" compared to the omens 16", you get a ryzen 7 6800H with 8Gb DDR 5 at 4800MT with a rtx 3060 140W. But I dont like that the laptop screams GAMER, also i live in south africa and stuff here is super exspensive so i can add an exstra 8Gb stick in the Tuff that brings the price to R26 500 that is 1526 USD and the Hp Omen is 1340 USD, What to do, also I have my own ssds. Both has a 1080p display 144hz.

 

ASUS 90NR0972-M001C0 TUF GAMING A17

 

OMEN by HP Laptop 16-b0012ni

 

I will suggest you to look into RX laptops too. For example there is Asus G14/g15 AMD advantage:

https://rog.asus.com/laptops/rog-strix/2021-rog-strix-g15-advantage-edition-series/

RX 6800 goes for similar price as rtx 3060 but has way better performance It's 1700€ here, without any deals. You probably can get one for 1500€ i saw some go as low as 1400 on a good deal. And it's only that specific laptop. I would consider RX 6800M best bang for the buck. Of course it's just a suggestion. 

[Jack Grobbelaar]

Thx for ur reply so I checked but the only ones that will deliver 2 me has either a RTX 3050 or 3070 ti and they both are more expensive than the 3060, Mahn South african prices are radicicolous 

[DemiGod]

47 minutes ago, Jack Grobbelaar said:

Thx for ur reply so I checked but the only ones that will deliver 2 me has either a RTX 3050 or 3070 ti and they both are more expensive than the 3060, Mahn South african prices are radicicolous 

Oh if you have no access to RX 6800M then yeah... RTX 3060 is a good choice. Well then between laptops that are close in specs I would just watch a review and decide what is important for you. One will have a better battery life, better camera, better audio quality, more ports, better keyboard, touchpad, build quality. Just find some reviews and buy according to your priorities. 

[Jack Grobbelaar]

Hi so wierd development , as i was about to buy the RTX 3060 laptop a new laptop appeared, also the Asus Tuf a15 Ryzen 7 6800H, 16Gb 1-Stick ddr 5 4800MT, with a RTX 3070 140W for the same price as the 3060. So i went wil that only down side is that the IPS Display only covers 67% SRGB , but I have no idea how bad that will look but already have a samsung monitor supporting 8,10 and 12 Bit color with insane accuracy (Accourding to listing). 

 

But now it has 16 GB ram so-dimm but as i understand ddr 5 memory is automatically Dual Channel. If im wrong can someone please correct me if im wrong cause i know that laptops get a massive performance boost if memory is in dual channel.