- Price: 370$
- Model: Asus ROG Strix G15 (G531GV)
- CPU: Intel I7 9th Gen
- GPU: Nvidia RTX 2060 6GB
- Ram: 16GB
- Storage: Samsung SSD 980 Pro 1TB (NVME)
- fakeman_pretendname ( @fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ) 18•6 hours ago
How often do you write the word “wads”? I can see a potential problem.
- faultypidgeon ( @faultypidgeon@programming.dev ) 7•3 hours ago
ht o you men? You cn typ jut fine ith keybor like tht.
- ProgrammingSocks ( @ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social ) 3•3 hours ago
They’re clear keycaps.
- fakeman_pretendname ( @fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ) 1•32 minutes ago
I genuinely didn’t realise that! It looked like they were missing, and just had the little nubs underneath.
Would you perhaps like to imagine they were missing, if only for the sake of my previous comment? :)
- Tenkard ( @Tenkard@lemmy.ml ) 2•4 hours ago
For that price I’d buy it myself
- wuphysics87 ( @wuphysics87@lemmy.ml ) 2•4 hours ago
Did someone spraypaint this before removing stickers from it? Because if that is the case hell yea buy it. You will never agaín find a laotop with such style ever again. Especially at that price.
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English9•6 hours ago
Solid device
However, your battery life is going to be like 2 minutes
- Cornelius ( @Cornelius@lemmy.ml ) 1•4 hours ago
This
Gaming laptops usually have atrocious battery life, especially ones with Intel i9s and comparatively weak GPUs. Means they put the whole budget of the laptop into the CPU and nothing else.
- Petter1 ( @Petter1@lemm.ee ) 9•11 hours ago
2060, 9th gen and 1Tb SSD for 400 is a good deal in my opinion. Don’t fear the nvidia BS spreaded here, with an up to date distro, it is no problem
I use my 780 with endeavourOS and latest proprietary driver without issues. I had to switch some packages from the nauvau edition to the nvidia editions. (Vulcan and cuda stuff)
In kde settings about page you can easily check if vulcan is running good
- boreengreen ( @boreengreen@lemm.ee ) 7•12 hours ago
Older, out of support, nvidia drivers tend to break from time to time.
- notTheCat ( @notTheCat@lemmy.ml ) 2•7 hours ago
I’m pretty sure it will be supported for more than a couple of years, my 930m (not even mx) is still receiving the latest driver updates
- LalSalaamComrade ( @velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml ) English13•16 hours ago
Gaming laptops have some of the worst builds. They break down very easily. This is why people go for Thinkpads and Elitebooks. I think that you can get yourself a 7th/8th gen Thinkpad Pxy, P1 or X1 Extreme series with a gDPU, and that would be a better deal - but do remember, they all have Nvidia dGPUs. And if you don’t really need a dGPU, then there’s the Thinkpad T series with the Ryzen processor.
Actually I kinda need a good GPU without destroying my bank account, I already have an IdeaPad1 R3 7th gen running Arch currently
- LalSalaamComrade ( @velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml ) English5•15 hours ago
I don’t know what your use-case is, but as I’ve said before, you should look into these Thinkpad models:
2018:
- P52s
- P52
- P72
- P1 Gen 1
- X1 Extreme Gen 1
2019:
- P53s
- P53
- P73
- P1 Gen 2
- X1 Extreme Gen 2
2020:
- P15 Gen 1
- P15s Gen 1
- P15v Gen 1
- P17 Gen 1
- P1 Gen 3
- X1 Extreme Gen 3
All of them have the option of GPU. Make sure to ask for the relevant machine type or part number to validate if they really have what’s inside of them - use that information to check on PSREF. Try to get at least a hexacore PC with more than or equal to 16GB of RAM. Avoid soldered RAM if possible - some of the newer ones that I’ve mentioned have them - because that way, you’ll end up having to use RAM in Flex mode.
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 12•16 hours ago
Cant recommend anything with Nvidia.
Noted, but do you have any laptop model in mind that reasonably cheap and has a good AMD dGPU because it’s pretty rare and I can’t think of anything on top of my head
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 8•16 hours ago
What is “reasonably cheap”?
My advice would be to buy something cheap. Then if you have extra cash, get yourself a desktop gaming PC. A laptop just has too many sacrifices. Low power, poor thermals, and high cost.
Have you considered a Steam Deck?
Steamdeck is expensive like 2X the price, because they’re imported and not officially available in my country
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 1•6 hours ago
I see. Can you get something with a relatively recent AMD APU? Like a 7840U or something? These are very similar to Steam Deck APU.
- marcy (she/her) ( @gento166@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 12•16 hours ago
afaik, if u use the proprietary nvidia drivers and the https://asus-linux.org kernel, u should be good to go. and also, according to this, fedora is the recommended distro of choice by the asus-linux team, but u should find guides for other distros that also support the asus-linux kernel on that website
- IrritableOcelot ( @IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ) 1•6 hours ago
Can confirm that the asusd and and asus-linux work fine on Bluefin and Ubuntu/mint; the Devs dont support X11 (which Mint is still on), but you can build it with the X11 flags on the GH repo and it works fine.
currently I already have a Lenovo IdeaPad 1 with Ryzen 3 7320u that’s why I can get away with just running Arch and Wayland without any problems, and I can’t use Ubuntu or Debian even Fedora based distro really well because it’s too hard for me, so no buy I guess?
- Sentau ( @Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•7 hours ago
Dude if you are able to use arch without difficulties, you can use ubuntu or fedora as well without any issues. And arch should have good support for asus-kernel and nvidia drivers through pre compiled binaries so even if you stick with arch, it won’t be an issue
- OsrsNeedsF2P ( @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ) 4•16 hours ago
That’s a good deal for this laptop and while Nvidia sucks on Linux (you’ll have some support issues), that graphics card isn’t the worst offender.
Tldr yes buy and install Linux. You’ll have to tinker for the graphics card though.
- Jeena ( @jeena@piefed.jeena.net ) 한국어3•16 hours ago
Nvidia and Linux don’t play well. Also if you are able to add a little bit more I bought a new Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 14" with a AMD Ryzen processor and without Windows but instead there was FreeDOS preinstalled for $440.
I just installed linux on it and everything worked perfectly for 3 years now, I’m very happy with it. It’s not the most powerful, so I can’t edit videos on it, but I can play Minecraft, I can program, use the browser with all Microsoft 350 stuff and so on without any problems.
- Lalo :manjaro: :vim: 🇲🇽 ( @lalo@mstdn.mx ) 0•16 hours ago
@ColdWater specs?
In the bio