Laptop with GPU recommendations!!

[engg_master]

I'm a college student, studying engineering. I am looking to buy an workhorse laptop. 

I want to get a laptop with a 40series GPU, and capable of dual booting ubuntu. max budget USD 1200.. will be on cloud 9 is I can find something for under USD 950
Please provide recommendations and reviews!!

Thanks in advance !!

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Laptop pricing is very inconsistent so it's hard to give an exact recommendation on model/spec. I recommend MSI though, their quality and features are pretty decent and the BIOS settings are great as well (Because the bios gives you nearly every possible setting because you can just unlock the bios with a simple key combo).

Usually they come with dual channel memory and often 2 storage slots. Dual boot I have used on my MSI Thin 15 without issue.

MSI stealth/raider etc. are their higher end models and are probably ideal for your price range.

[engg_master]

19 hours ago, rippy4500 said:

Laptop pricing is very inconsistent so it's hard to give an exact recommendation on model/spec. I recommend MSI though, their quality and features are pretty decent and the BIOS settings are great as well (Because the bios gives you nearly every possible setting because you can just unlock the bios with a simple key combo).

Usually they come with dual channel memory and often 2 storage slots. Dual boot I have used on my MSI Thin 15 without issue.

MSI stealth/raider etc. are their higher end models and are probably ideal for your price range.

Oh great thanks!!! I was leaning towards the HP Victus 15.6 and Lenovo LOQ  . Any comments?

 

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16 hours ago, engg_master said:

Oh great thanks!!! I was leaning towards the HP Victus 15.6 and Lenovo LOQ  . Any comments?

 

They're probably okay products on their own, but I tend to avoid bigger brands just cause they usually have problems with user serviceability.
I used to have an HP laptop and when I finally had to take it apart to clean the fans and repaste the cpu/gpu it took a long time and alot of struggle to take it apart and get it back together without breaking it. And the BIOS had very few options with the only actual useful setting being the boot options.
My current MSI laptop took like 15 minutes to open, do what I needed, and get it back together. Just had to remove the back panel and everything was accessible.