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I have been scouring the internet for about an hour and I've only found 3 options. I'm looking for a laptop with a 4080 and a Ryzen 9 CPU and from my extreme googling there aren't many options. I'm looking at the ASUS ROG Strix Scar 17. or the ASUS ROG Zephyrus DUO 16 (but the Duo 16 is a bit over my budget) most important part is the cooling and performance. how the keyboard feels or how the monitor looks is almost completely irrelevant. since I'm connecting it to a setup and the laptop will stay stationary most of its life. 

 

But I still need a laptop since i travel overseas twice a year, I do physical 3d classes and online classes. "Most of it's life" is more like 250 days out of 365

 

I'm going for a Ryzen CPU since I'll be doing a lot of 3d rendering and a lot of editing. 4080 is the highest I can go. and I need good opticx performance and raytracing. budget is around 3k. but even that is pushing it. 

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The only other one I could find would be the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16ARX8H. Which is supposedly pretty good as well, but will also nearly reach your price point.

 

Have you considered getting a normal laptop and have a dedicated desktop at home? If you have a good internet connection where you have to work on editing and at home, you could always use something like parsec to connect to it.

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32 minutes ago, Kevin.Sahlstrom said:

I'm connecting it to a setup and the laptop will stay stationary most of its life.

If you don't plan on moving it: get a desktop, as that will get far more performance at a lower price.

 

If you do plan on moving it, but only need to do simple browsing on word processing on the move: get a desktop and a cheap laptop.

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38 minutes ago, Kevin.Sahlstrom said:

stationary most of its life.  

Then why not a desktop? Way cheaper for the same perfromance.

 

If you very very very infrequently need to be on the go. Plenty cheap laptops out there that pack a SERIOUS punch.

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1 hour ago, jaslion said:

Then why not a desktop? Way cheaper for the same perfromance.

 

If you very very very infrequently need to be on the go. Plenty cheap laptops out there that pack a SERIOUS punch.

I travel overseas about twice a year. And i'm doing online school. And I have plenty of times where I need to unplug and leave. I'll be able to get a desktop in 3-4 years when I move tho. This is just a Insurance until then

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2 hours ago, will0hlep said:

If you don't plan on moving it: get a desktop, as that will get far more performance at a lower price.

 

If you do plan on moving it, but only need to do simple browsing on word processing on the move: get a desktop and a cheap laptop.

I plan on moving it. I travel about twice a year and need something to plug out when I go to school. (I'm a 3d artist, hence the high end spec requirements)

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2 hours ago, adm0n said:

The only other one I could find would be the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16ARX8H. Which is supposedly pretty good as well, but will also nearly reach your price point.

 

Have you considered getting a normal laptop and have a dedicated desktop at home? If you have a good internet connection where you have to work on editing and at home, you could always use something like parsec to connect to it.

Check edit😁 problem with that is when i'm on the move i still need a laptop that has pc like performance since I'm still working 99% of those times. And getting both would be way to expensive. I'll rather get something that can do both without issue. I have tried using a friends pc over cloud. But the latency is horendus 

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