One laptop to rule them all? Or maybe just cope a little bit?

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It is. 3080 is a very good gpu, and 5900HX is among the best laptop cpus.

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Nah I goosed it- it was a scam- lost $150 deposit but at least didnā€™t get jacked for the 2 grand cash I was carrying for the meet. It was too good to be true I should have known better. Oh well back to the drawing board!

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You cant buy a high end laptop for 350
Edit: Ignore this, i am dumb.

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Did a message get cut? Who said anything about 350?
This has been the only sane thread about laptops on the forums in a while where the OP is actually apparently willing to overpay :stuck_out_tongue:

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CyberPowerPC has some great gaming laptops at decent prices (at least by current year prices):

Gaming Computer and Desktop Trusted Seller | CyberPowerPC

They arenā€™t super gaudy looking either like some gaming stuff.

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I donā€™t know if this is any good, but it is made to be very easy to upgrade and repair: https://frame.work/laptop

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Gigabyte Aero 15 YD

How has no one mentioned this.

I Use it for literally everything you just mentioned. I Had a mac M1. Itā€™s great but you get so tired of being limited to optimized software.

I am so incredibly happy with my Aero 15, I cant even begin to describe.

The only thing that looks gamer-ish is when the keyboard is on RGB mode but thatā€™s vary easy to set the way you want it. (normal white backlight in my case)

Its a bit expensive but worth every penny.

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12th gen is still a bit unstable / ram caps at 32 to get full performance even on desktops.

That said, now that they are acrually avaliable Gigabyte Aorus XE4 is probably a better choiche.

From what I see, you should still have to replace most of its guts with better gear to use as a developer machine.

Anyway, I just wanted to tell people to stay the f!ck away from Asus.
This company in the middle of a shortage is producing s!it quality products to the point that anything you order has to be returned at least once.
This has now happened to my company with 4 displays, 2 rtx cards, 3 montherboards, and 1 cooler. ALL asus. ALL ROG.

Yes, if you keep getting new products shipped you will eventually get one that works - however, not sure for how long they will work.
Trusting that a Laptop which is definitely prone to overheating will not to come apart seems like a really bad idea. Particularly when from what i have observed so far the problem is the workmanship/sotering of componentsā€¦