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minervx
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  1. 1080p+ resolution
  2. Solid state drive
  3. 8+ GB of RAM
  4. Relatively portable (13" and/or relatively thin)
  5. 6+ hours battery life
  6. Gaming laptops come at too high sacrifices.

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1 hour ago, minervx said:
  1. 1080p+ resolution
  2. Solid state drive
  3. 8+ GB of RAM
  4. Relatively portable (13" and/or relatively thin)
  5. 6+ hours battery life
  6. Gaming laptops come at too high sacrifices.

That's a bit irrelevant, personally I prefer choosing a laptop by its specific model

Desktop specs:

Spoiler

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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6 hours ago, minervx said:
  1. 1080p+ resolution
  2. Solid state drive
  3. 8+ GB of RAM
  4. Relatively portable (13" and/or relatively thin)
  5. 6+ hours battery life
  6. Gaming laptops come at too high sacrifices.

ASUS Zenbook UX430. Has an excellent screen, 14" FHD display in a 13" body, good battery life.

 

The only two issues are the fans always being on, though they aren't too loud and this can be fixed with Notebook Fan Control and it will probably have some coil whine (I only tried the UQ model so not sure about the UA model).

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1 hour ago, OmJo93 said:

ASUS Zenbook UX430. Has an excellent screen, 14" FHD display in a 13" body, good battery life.

 

The only two issues are the fans always being on, though they aren't too loud and this can be fixed with Notebook Fan Control and it will probably have some coil whine (I only tried the UQ model so not sure about the UA model).

Zenbooks can't handle dGPU well

Desktop specs:

Spoiler

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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2 hours ago, ZM Fong said:

Zenbooks can't handle dGPU well

True, that specific model just has venting along the hinge which makes it get quite hot.

 

Wasn't sure if he wanted a dGPU or not, the regular model is still a good choice if he doesn't.

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