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by rejectfinite 1114 days ago
You are right but one thing. Gaming laptops are terrible and a bad deal.

>And they are as cheap as an equivalent desktop - which may or may not bring any visible performance and quality improvement

They will. Either cheaper or better performance for same price.

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> Gaming laptops are terrible and a bad deal... They will. Either cheaper or better performance for same price.

I found them pretty competent. An Asus ROG G17 easily gives at least ~80% performance of what the components would give if they were in a desktop. (RTX 3070, Ryzen 9). And does it with almost ~50% less power consumption...