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by dr_zoidberg 2188 days ago
No, and I've had mixed experiences with HP over the years. Looks pretty nice, has it been reviewed?

The Asus G14 looked good too, but once they became available reviewers gave me a it fo an angle that I haven't considered from using it and it was then I decidede to wait. Pretty much the same happened with the Asus TUF A15 (good on paper, but actually terrible once you get it -- it's missing a couple of heatsinks inside who knows why).

So I got into a situation where there are apparently good Ryzen notebooks on paper, but once you start using them they all come with gotchas.

Another gotcha that I have: most are not being paired with good GPUs, and I run quite a lot of code that can be accelerated with CUDA, and while not a deal breaker, having a CUDA-capable GPU is a big plus for me. And most of the Ryzens are coming with 16x0 instead of 20x0's :/

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I've been watching these like a hawk. HP Omen 15 seems like the least compromises so far. Good battery, good screen, good cooling. It's a plastic lid and screen but that doesn't seem to hurt anything. The 1660 Ti is full 80W so it's very close to a mobile RTX 2060 (especially the Max-Q).