Hi all, first post so please excuse if im not following guidelines. I am looking at a laptop with the folllowing spec;
15.6 inch 120hz panel
i7 9750h
16gb 2400hz DDR4
GTX 2060 6GB
1TB barracuda SSD
Its basically an in house laptop from pcspecialist co uk that comes in at $1673 inc build and postage. My two questions are A: is it a good deal and B: will it be future proof for the foreseeable future?
All replies gratefully received!!
Is it a good deal? not really… but its not bad either. about par for the course.
Is it futureproof? well thats really a misnomer… Nothing is futureproof. Its all about getting what you need/want now. Generally buying more than you need is a waste of time and money because as tech advances, price decreases. You’re better served getting just what you could get by with instead…
Having said that I have a 3900x 32GB RAM 2080ti desktop, and a 9750h 16gb 2666 ram 1660ti 240hz 2x 500gb NVME laptop, so Id say get it if you can afford it. I’m a bad example of do as I say, not as I do.
Gaming laptops in general are pretty crap at every price point though. They make decent travel gaming machines where you can sit in one spot and use the computer. Thats about it. They run hot, loud, and not very long when on battery.
Yeah. I have a 2016 Razer Pro that can game on battery for almost an hour. And that’s with the Razer on-battery settings limiting it to 30 FPS and 80% CPU speed (if I remember correctly).
If you have no other need for a laptop than gaming, and you just want something portable but will always plug it in, also consider buying or building a small SFF box with a built-in handle.
They are very convenient and easy to transport alongside a small monitor. I’ve even seen one that fit into a laptop bag. That one was a 17" monitor though which may be too small but is equivalent to a laptop display.
Some SFF are fairly short and won’t accept all GPU cards. Others are longer and you can fit in anything. Most of them you need to be careful to not buy a GPU with a wide cooler since horizontal space is also limited. And on some the PSU is limited to 450W or so, so you have to watch the GPU + CPU power usage and may need to undervolt and / or underclock.
But the result is still better than a laptop and easier to upgrade in the future.
Thanks for replying, i should have given more context. It needs to be something that can be put away due to space limitations, it will be run from power supply and thirdly, by future proof i meant ok for the next 2-3 yrs. I can get it for near enough 0% finance over 3 yrs through my business which is why im concerned about paying over this time only to find it obsolete.
I think those laptop specs will be OK for three years. I would definitely consider getting a 3 year warranty with it if you can. My Razer Pro had a full motherboard failure after 10 months, luckily inside the 1 yr window. Laptop repairs are often very expensive if it isn’t covered, since for a lot of problems they basically replace the entire guts of the machine.
My Razer Pro is 3 years old now and still runs everything very well. I have a coworker with an almost 3 year old laptop with an Nvidia 1060 that is still a great machine today.
I think that 2060 in your listed specs will be good for three or four years of gaming easily. I had an older desktop machine with an AMD 7970 and it didn’t start to really struggle until 5 to 7 years. Even then almost everything still worked if I turned the settings down far enough.
You have seconded what i already thought as far as lifetime is concerned. The laptop i run currently has a 960m gpu that runs eso at 45fps despite being below min specs. The laptop comes with a 3 year warranty as standard which pretty standard on custom build electronics here in the uk. Thanks so much for your advice and happy new year!!!
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