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I've been thinking about upgrading my laptop and have come down to the following 2 options. I do some light gaming (wow being the most resource intensive), some photoshopping (infrared photography is my hobby and it occasionally includes processing some large batches of raw files), and lots and lots of fairly resource intensive text mining and statistical computations (where the bottleneck is generally hd read speeds). My current options are: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K2O4QQI/?tag=extension-kb-20 and a sager 6658: http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np6658-clevo-w650sj-p-6994.html with 120gb ssd and 1tb hd. I don't care much about size (one is 17 the other 15.6). I travel a lot, but generally use the laptop at a desk, so weight/battery life are entirely secondary. Price lines up so it is mostly a matter of HD and size. Anyone has any experience with the acer and sager models above? Anything beyond the specs?
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As I wade through possible laptops, I've started to see a lop more 15 inch laptops with 4k screens. Is 4k on a 15 inch monitor even noticeable?
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Sep 1, 2014 19:01
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dissss posted:Yes its noticeable because it isn't usable at 100% scaling and a lot of apps still don't scale to other levels very well. Unless I misunderstood you, wouldn't this be a negative for 4k, given that 1080 still is the standard?
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Sep 1, 2014 21:18
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As someone who doesnt need the latest and greatest, what is generally the amount of time between the announcement of the new gen stuff and the previous gen stuff going on sale? The laptopdeals reddit seems to indicate that any day now we'll be able to buy dirt cheap models with 2070s, and I don't know how realistic that is.
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Jan 13, 2021 17:22
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Lockback posted:Most of that stuff has already been on sale. Usually the pattern is Yeah, those prices are what I am seeing for 2070s and 2060s, and I was pretty set on buying one to replace my 6 year old laptop with something both lighter (mine is a 17 inch beast) and more current, but when I went to check the laptopdeals subreddit it was pretty much "dont buy now, wait for the end of the month," which I was pretty skeptical about comparing the prices of 1660 and 2060 laptops.
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Jan 13, 2021 19:11
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Am I right in understanding that the benchmarks we have so far show that the 3060 is a relatively minor upgrade over the 2070 in their mobile versions? The reason I ask is because I saw this at best buy https://www.bestbuy.com/site/dell-g...p?skuId=6416473 and it seemed like a pretty decent deal, one where the difference in terms of uselife from a 3060 one wouldn't be that great. The most gaming I do is wow or a paradox game, so they wouldn't need to be top of the line.
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Feb 4, 2021 16:48
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Lockback posted:So that's the non-super Max-P? If it is a S then the 2070 (115W) will be about the same as the 3060 depending on the game: I'm not a heavy gamer. As I said, it's wow with paradox stuff, and mostly when I travel. I generally buy a laptop whenever those types of game evolve enough to start pushing the bounds of what i have. My current laptop is a close to 7 year old Acer that could run wow on max settings when i bought it and now runs it close to minimum settings and produces a lot of heat while doing so, on top of a broken speaker system and a relatively small ssd for current standards (256). Relatively small differences don't really matter to me and my concern is more "will this last me 5 years or will I have to replace it in 3 in order to keep up with game demands" rather than "will I get 70 fps versus 80." My understanding as someone who really hasn't kept up is that Ryzen's massive advantage is in multi thread applications and that in single core ones like most games it's not that big a deal?
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Feb 4, 2021 19:34
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ReverendDre posted:Goon Hivemind: HALP! Just as an fyi, ebay has a president's day sale going on for certified refurbished (code prezday20). I just bout an acer with a certified refurb acer with a 2060 and a i7-10750H for a little less than 850.
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