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Which Laptop for Gaming?

Laabsher
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Hi guys, 

 

I'm looking at two laptops, one of which I want to purchase. It's mostly going to be used for gaming. 

 

This one. This one from Newegg I think is the best deal and bang for the buck. It comes with a 1050 2GB, 7700HQ CPU, 8GB of DDR4 RAM, and a 7200RPM HDD; On top of being on sale, having a $50 rebate and three free items. 

 

The other is this one. It's on sale too and comes with a 1050ti 4GB, 7300HQ, 8GB of DDR4 RAM, and a 1TB 5400RPM HDD. For $100 more, I believe I would upgrade the 7300HQ to the 7700HQ or get an SSD. It also doesn't come with an optical drive. 

 

I think the best bang for my buck is the Newegg deal. What do you guys think?

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http://outlet.us.dell.com/ArbOnlineSales/Online/SecondaryInventorySearch.aspx?c=us&cs=22&l=en&s=dfh&sign=PXhcOSHtr1T4IOw%2fPR7UdcBI88Hjq7rZrKKWmOllJ3buy458PXGJCDH15C7eVHkrgSqEwj9Lw9gflXlyEupQpyS77r1qUJYhUhLd0NEQwe3dCoasXZi9nRgLYCo2GV9Hi7pE2pjQ0SzHt2K0sOd%2bUG6fSBsVZd7ibNjJh0lQa7HHaF8axiFgZwEb7S88yGwVlmJuvCVcgC3K2itdM1SxIb7qRLILr%2fEP

 

dell outlet has this for $810 refurbished, and it has a 7700hq, 128gb ssd, 1050Ti 4GB, 1tb hdd and 8gb ram. 

idk

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The Lenovo one with GTX 1050 Ti would have more raw gaming performance compared to GTX 1050

Daily drivers:

- HP Elite x2 1012 G2: Intel Core i7-7600U, Intel HD Graphics 620 + Aorus Gaming Box GTX 1080 eGPU, 16GB LPDDR3-1867, 256GB Toshiba NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD + 128GB Toshiba Exceria UHS-1 U3 MicroSD, 12.3" 2736x1824 + HP Pavilion 22cwa Monitor 21.5" 1080p IPS, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

- LG V20 (H990DS): Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 (ARM-based), Adreno 530, 4GB LPDDR4, 64GB eMMC UFS 2.0 + 64GB SanDisk Extreme UHS-1 U3 V30 MicroSD, 5.7" IPS LCD 1440p + 2.1" 160x1040, Android 7.0 (LG UX 5.0)

 

Other devices:

- Lenovo IdeaPad Y400: Intel Core i7-3630QM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M SLI, 16GB DDR3-1600, 120GB Kingston mS200 mSATA SSD + 1TB HGST Travelstar 7K1000 7200rpm 2.5" HDD, 14" 768p, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit + Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit [retired]

- Dell Venue 11 Pro (7139): Intel Core i5-4300Y, Intel HD Graphics 4200, 8GB LPDDR3-1600, 256GB SanDisk X110 M.2 2260 SATA3 SSD, 10.8" 1080p IPS, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit + Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit [retired]

- Acer Iconia W4: Intel Atom Z3740, Intel HD Graphics, 2GB DDR3L-1033, 64GB Samsung MCG8GC eMMC, 8" IPS WXGA (1280x800), Windows 10 Home 32-bit

- Asus ZenFone 2 ZE551ML: Intel Atom Z3580 (x86-based), PowerVR G6430, 4GB LPDDR3, 64GB eMMC, 5.5" IPS LCD 1080p, Android 6.0.1 (Asus ZenUI)

- New Nintendo 2DS XL

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7 hours ago, Laabsher said:

 

The other is this one. It's on sale too and comes with a 1050ti 4GB, 7300HQ, 8GB of DDR4 RAM, and a 1TB 5400RPM HDD. For $100 more, I believe I would upgrade the 7300HQ to the 7700HQ or get an SSD. It also doesn't come with an optical drive. 

 

This one because of 1050ti and the coupon. Also it's better to go for CPU upgrade at first and then an SSD on black Friday.

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Go with the 1050 Ti.

 

And if you want to spend the extra Benjamin, go with the CPU upgrade. You can grab an SSD later on for less.

The Workhorse (AMD-powered custom desktop)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X | GPU: MSI X Trio GeForce RTX 2070S | RAM: XPG Spectrix D60G 32GB DDR4-3200 | Storage: 512GB XPG SX8200P + 2TB 7200RPM Seagate Barracuda Compute | OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro

 

The Portable Workstation (Apple MacBook Pro 16" 2021)

SoC: Apple M1 Max (8+2 core CPU w/ 32-core GPU) | RAM: 32GB unified LPDDR5 | Storage: 1TB PCIe Gen4 SSD | OS: macOS Monterey

 

The Communicator (Apple iPhone 13 Pro)

SoC: Apple A15 Bionic | RAM: 6GB LPDDR4X | Storage: 128GB internal w/ NVMe controller | Display: 6.1" 2532x1170 "Super Retina XDR" OLED with VRR at up to 120Hz | OS: iOS 15.1

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