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- Price: 370$
- Model: Asus ROG Strix G15 (G531GV)
- CPU: Intel I7 9th Gen
- GPU: Nvidia RTX 2060 6GB
- Ram: 16GB
- Storage: Samsung SSD 980 Pro 1TB (NVME)
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Gaming laptops have some of the worst builds. They break down very easily. This is why people go for Thinkpads and Elitebooks. I think that you can get yourself a 7th/8th gen Thinkpad Pxy, P1 or X1 Extreme series with a gDPU, and that would be a better deal - but do remember, they all have Nvidia dGPUs. And if you don't really need a dGPU, then there's the Thinkpad T series with the Ryzen processor.
Actually I kinda need a good GPU without destroying my bank account, I already have an IdeaPad1 R3 7th gen running Arch currently
why not a desktop? you get more performance for the price and you don't need to worry as much about nvidia power management, which seems like a pain from what I've seen
Don't have space for it and I'm concern about power consumption
Just turn the computer off when you’re not using it.
If it’s because of bills then you’re not gonna see a significant increase in power consumption from just a computer.
If it’s because of your grid or home circuits, you have bigger problems. Washing machines and refrigerators are a big draw when the motors kick on and everything’s just fine. Hell, incandescent lightbulbs draw 100w.
Source: when I’m worried about power draw I use a kill a watt for a month on the thing I’m worried about.
You can get a SFF PC. You can look at the ol' Optiplex machines where you just slap in a graphics card and away you go.
This guy just posted a pretty cool example yesterday.
Honestly I think the power bills would be similar with similar performance hardware, because you have to take into account battery losses with laptops.
that's fair that you don't have the space though