Hi level 1’s I’m thinking of buying this laptop.
I like everything about it except the response time of the screen is 200ms. How bad will this be for general use? I don’t plan to play fps games on it.
Or maybe there’s a just better laptop I didn’t find out there?
Thanks for reading.
Unless you’re deadset on having Thunderbolt 4 working I’d say that you’re much better off with a Ryzen 7000-series laptop in terms of overall performance and thermals. Thunderbolt should work on Ryzen 7000-series but it still very “untested” in the wild. I would still go for Intel WIFI if possible irregardless of platform.
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I don’t need thunderbolt at all. Not sure how you got that impression. I’ll have a look for ryzen laptops
In that case, 7540U or 7840U are the CPUs you want as they’re based on Zen 4 (TB support etc)
I would actually likely go for 7540U as it has lower TDP which means less heat output and noise, it’ll still be plenty fast for mobile use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Ryzen_processors#Phoenix_mobile
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I found this one. What do you think of it ?
(https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/laptops-&-notebooks/laptops/102133-um3402yar-kp429x)
The **30U-series are not “old” but quite dated, not sure if you’d want those over Intel 12/13th to be honest considering overall functionality. I guess HP EliteBook 835 G10 for example aren’t available yet in AU or maybe priced crazy high?
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Not sure about the hp. I’ll have another look. I’m going for a 14 inch screen
HP EliteBook 845 G10 seems to have some availability at least in general, no idea otherwise
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Spotted this yesterday. Precision Dell 15.6" $733.98 (50% off)
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That looks nice but it’s way out of my price range. The site says 5000 for me
Top one is $5K, scroll down. Comes with Linux if you prefer.
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There’s no way that the 200ms screen latency is accurate for an OLED. The worst I’ve ever seen is some old color accurate LCDs have 20-40, 200 is bonkers.
EDIT: your link says 0.2ms in the screen specs.
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For general use, a Core i5 or Ryzen 5 class device would be more suitable. You don’t really need the extra performance offered by the higher end chips.
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If you’re going to link please be more specific and he’s asking for AU not US.
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As with all computer purchases, it depends on what you want to do with it.
If you want this one as a daily driver, both the 16GB RAM and 512 GB SSD are kinda bare minimum and will not age well the coming three years. I would try to increase to something with 32 GB of RAM and 1TB of SSD. This might increase the price by $200-$500 AUD, depending on your mark and model though.
I would go down a notch in CPU over RAM and SSD storage personally, too, if you are that budget constrained. That is, I would go with a Core i7 13700H with 32 GB RAM and 1TB SSD over a Core i9 13900H with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD. Otherwise, don’t really see anything wrong with the laptop chosen… But don’t see anything standing out either.
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I’m familiar with the need for moar RAM in a server, but what general purpose use case is there for a laptop like this that really needs that amount of RAM? Besides video editing i don’t know of any, but I only know that because YouTubers say it.
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Well, it depends on what you do. If it’s just a quick surf machine then 16 is fine.
16 GB of RAM is like having a V2 engine in your car. You don’t know what you’re missing until you’ve tried to speed up on the interstate a couple of times and realise you really do want something snappier. Can you do it, yeah, sure. But it does make a difference and the only way it can be explained is basically by experiencing it. Heck, just Windows 11 alone, booted, can take up 8GB alone…
16 is barely cutting it these days, at $50 USD 32 GB is becoming the norm, and fast.
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I would strongly advice against getting H and HX CPUs in a laptop simply because they utilize way too much power to be practical and throttle due to it.
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I am running a Lenovo x13 Gen3 AMD (6850U with 680M iGPU) and it has USB4 and TB3. You can pick one up for about 1300 USD Maxed out with 2TiB of Storage, 32GiB RAM, and a 100% RGB IPS panel. They have a Z13/16 line that comes with the OLED panel.
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