ARC on laptops

[ThePanduuh]

I've been tasked by my wife with looking for a replacement for her dated Lenovo Yoga laptop she got for college many moons ago. I have found a few candidates, but one of them uses an Intel ARC dGPU. Has anyone had experience with ARC on laptops? FWIW, it will probably not be used for gaming despite it being a gaming laptop. She is upgrading primarily to be able to study for data science certs and is sticking with Windows to be able to use tools she is familiar with using at work (also Windows based). Me being the butthurt I am is prioritizing 1440p high refresh rate because they should be standards at this point dammit!

 

Should I have concerns about giving her an ARC laptop?

 

edit: It has an intel core ultra 7 155h CPU if that affects things.

[emosun]

50 minutes ago, ThePanduuh said:

it will probably not be used for gaming

then the gpu is unimportant which is something you should take advantage of not prioritize....

50 minutes ago, ThePanduuh said:

Me being the butthurt I am is prioritizing 1440p high refresh rate because they should be standards at this point dammit

ok well what you should do is prioritize aspects the user (not you) wants vs what you want.

50 minutes ago, ThePanduuh said:

Should I have concerns about giving her an ARC laptop?

no

[RandomLegoBrick]

not exactly sure why the gpu would matter if its just for data science studies...? If she actually needs to run huge calculations on datasets then you will want cuda (nvidia) but realistically heavy compute can just be run on the free student plan from most cloud providers...

 

Nvidia, amd radeon, and intel arc are all very stable on windows desktop these days. Should not matter much.

[kirashi]

2 hours ago, ThePanduuh said:

I've been tasked by my wife with looking for a replacement for her dated Lenovo Yoga laptop she got for college many moons ago. I have found a few candidates, but one of them uses an Intel ARC dGPU. Has anyone had experience with ARC on laptops? FWIW, it will probably not be used for gaming despite it being a gaming laptop. She is upgrading primarily to be able to study for data science certs and is sticking with Windows to be able to use tools she is familiar with using at work (also Windows based). Me being the butthurt I am is prioritizing 1440p high refresh rate because they should be standards at this point dammit!

 

Should I have concerns about giving her an ARC laptop?

 

edit: It has an intel core ultra 7 155h CPU if that affects things.

I've been using one of these with an Intel i7-1260P processor and A370M graphics since 2023. While I'm sure the model without Arc graphics (or with Intel's newer Ultra series processors) would achieve longer battery life, mine still achieves between 8-10 hours when doing general web browsing tasks whilst offering the ability to lightly game if I'm travelling for work purposes or on a roadtrip.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Yoga-7-16-Gen-7-review-Massive-16-inch-convertible-laptop.637573.0.html

 

That said... If your wife doesn't need a GPU, why purchase a laptop with one? Also, while 1080p screens are "standard" on most laptops these days, you can absolutely find models with 1200p or 1600p screens. My Lenovo came with a 1600p screen, which is VERY nice for document creation and web browsing.

[ThePanduuh]

19 hours ago, kirashi said:

I've been using one of these with an Intel i7-1260P processor and A370M graphics since 2023. While I'm sure the model without Arc graphics (or with Intel's newer Ultra series processors) would achieve longer battery life, mine still achieves between 8-10 hours when doing general web browsing tasks whilst offering the ability to lightly game if I'm travelling for work purposes or on a roadtrip.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Yoga-7-16-Gen-7-review-Massive-16-inch-convertible-laptop.637573.0.html

 

That said... If your wife doesn't need a GPU, why purchase a laptop with one? Also, while 1080p screens are "standard" on most laptops these days, you can absolutely find models with 1200p or 1600p screens. My Lenovo came with a 1600p screen, which is VERY nice for document creation and web browsing.

I haven’t really found many high resolution laptops that don’t have a dedicated gpu. I forgot about notebook check, I should probably give that a good look. 

[ThePanduuh]

21 hours ago, emosun said:

then the gpu is unimportant which is something you should take advantage of not prioritize....

ok well what you should do is prioritize aspects the user (not you) wants vs what you want.

no

criteria given:

non-touchscreen

matte screen

not 2-in-1

numpad

windows

15-16" screen

she didn't like the thinkpad nipple lol

 

forgive me for seeking above the minimum criteria...