Need a new gaming laptop
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My trusty Dell G3 is now showing it's age, thinking it's time for a new one.
Use it for work every day, so usual emailing, zoom meetings, excel etc. Also like to use it for gaming when not at work, my current Dell G3 15 has been great but is now showing it's age, poor battery life, randomly shutting down etc.
Being almost completely computer illiterate means when looking at specs of new ones it might as well be in japanese. I basically want the same again but shinier, faster and newer.
Had a brief look and the Dell G16 looks like it might do the business? It's about £1400 so cheaper than a macbook and I'd imagine leaps and bounds beyond my current one.
https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/laptops-2-in-1-pcs...
Any experts want to weigh in?
Use it for work every day, so usual emailing, zoom meetings, excel etc. Also like to use it for gaming when not at work, my current Dell G3 15 has been great but is now showing it's age, poor battery life, randomly shutting down etc.
Being almost completely computer illiterate means when looking at specs of new ones it might as well be in japanese. I basically want the same again but shinier, faster and newer.
Had a brief look and the Dell G16 looks like it might do the business? It's about £1400 so cheaper than a macbook and I'd imagine leaps and bounds beyond my current one.
https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/laptops-2-in-1-pcs...
Any experts want to weigh in?
Dells are great, if you're using it for work then it's probably the better option as you can purchase NBD support for it.
As an alternative consider the Asus TUF series. If you are concerned about battery life, just make sure you get an Intel CPU, the Ryzen CPUs are powerful but power hogs.
As an alternative consider the Asus TUF series. If you are concerned about battery life, just make sure you get an Intel CPU, the Ryzen CPUs are powerful but power hogs.
Not too fussed about battery life, have got used to almost always being plugged in with the current one.
Annoyingly the one I found isn't in stock, there is one that is almost identical but it has the NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4060, 8 GB GDDR6 as opposed to the NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4070, 8 GB GDDR6.
How much difference does that make in real terms?
Annoyingly the one I found isn't in stock, there is one that is almost identical but it has the NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4060, 8 GB GDDR6 as opposed to the NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4070, 8 GB GDDR6.
How much difference does that make in real terms?
Boobonman said:
Not too fussed about battery life, have got used to almost always being plugged in with the current one.
Annoyingly the one I found isn't in stock, there is one that is almost identical but it has the NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4060, 8 GB GDDR6 as opposed to the NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4070, 8 GB GDDR6.
How much difference does that make in real terms?
In the short term, not much. The 4060 will show it's age sooner, but again, not by much. As a general rule of thumb.Annoyingly the one I found isn't in stock, there is one that is almost identical but it has the NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4060, 8 GB GDDR6 as opposed to the NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4070, 8 GB GDDR6.
How much difference does that make in real terms?
4060 = 1080p gold standard.
4070 = 1440 p gold standard.
If you're looking at Dell then look at thier outlet site, both the Alienware and G series have decent graphics cards
https://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/InventorySearc...
You say it's mostly plugged in, do you also have an external monitor for a bigger screen or are you planning on gaming on a titchy 17-18" laptop screen? If you're mostly static do you need a gaming laptop or would a desktop be better? The advantage of a desk top is you can upgrade components as it ages, and then have a much lighter laptop for traveling around with.
https://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/InventorySearc...
You say it's mostly plugged in, do you also have an external monitor for a bigger screen or are you planning on gaming on a titchy 17-18" laptop screen? If you're mostly static do you need a gaming laptop or would a desktop be better? The advantage of a desk top is you can upgrade components as it ages, and then have a much lighter laptop for traveling around with.
Need a laptop as I work from it, and I am generally never in the same place twice. I plug it in to a 40" monitor when I'm at home and gaming. Would rather have £1500 worth of dual purpose laptop that can do the gaming thing and also work duties rather than a pure work laptop and a big desktop at home.
My gaming requirements aren't that intense but it would be nice to run things like Beam.ng Drive a bit faster with all the shiny stuff turned up...
My gaming requirements aren't that intense but it would be nice to run things like Beam.ng Drive a bit faster with all the shiny stuff turned up...
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