10th Generation Intel® Core™ i9 processor
Windows 10 Home 64
15.6" diagonal, FHD (1920 x 1080), 144 Hz, 7 ms response time, IPS, micro-edge, anti-glare, 300 nits, 72% NTSC
32 GB DDR4-2933 SDRAM (2 x 16 GB)
1 TB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD
Ultra-thin. Ultra-settings. Anywhere.
Intel® UHD Graphics
RTX 2080 SUPER™ with Max-Q design
1 year limited parts and labour
Can't imagine any laptop with these specs not overheating. It's physics — tight space + heat-heavy components = throttling.
All gaming laptops would suffer with this to some degree.
Reckon this laptop is more a desktop replacement rather than a mobility unit. The battery life would be atrocious on this.
Thanks for the info!
Looking for a laptop for work and trading so dont need the good graphics card. Can anyone recommend a laptop with awesome specs like this but cheaper and lower spec graphics card?
Ill be running it for a couple of screens for trading.
You're probably best off looking at the M1 macbooks. The computing power in them is insane — beating out desktop-class i7 processors.
@Merlict: ah right, didn't think about that.
There seem to be workarounds: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/m1-macs-able-to-run-up-…
But these are fiddly so maybe this wouldn't work for @turbonetics.
@blergmonkeys: Anyone buying this will want it for gaming. In which case definitely don't buy a Macbook lmao.
Just buy one of those 11th Gen U-Series laptops or a decent 4th Gen AMD laptop, they've got very good integrated graphics and if you have alot open, just get something with 32GB.
If money isn't an issue, you could also go for a Surface product if you also want premium portability
Also yes, if a Macbook is what you want, the M1 Macbooks are amazing too
Remind me the wordings my colleague used to justify his purchase of surface pro.
May serve for the use case.
I didn’t buy one because my eye vision didn’t allow me read anything on that small screen.
@easywallet: @easywallet I can't imagine you would need more than a 15" screen, but if you do then you probably want a desktop anyway
Thanks All for the input and help.
XPS 13's are good value currently. I bought 4 yesterday (i7, 16GB, FHD and Win10 Pro). 20% off + 7% off (LOVEKEANU) = $1710.24 and 5% cashback via Shopback. Ships in 12-15 days (You can also get home edition version for a bit less.
Would egpu be better than? Get a laptop with very fast processor and have egpu connected for graphics?
Thanks for the recommendation. What is an egpu? Would you have any examples of a good one to get?
Egpu is horrible value and the connection is a bottleneck
@ChadHominem: Yep, the thunderbolt 3 eGPUs are expensive and limit the GPU's performance quite significantly
The Alienware Amplfier was cheaper and had less of a bottleneck (used PCIe 3.0 x4) but you need a compatible Alienware laptop and it looks like they've been discontinued
Bought one from JB the other week and both the unit and the charger are over heating massively while playing Counter Strike Source. A cooling pad off ebay is working for the laptop but the charger is something I've gotta try and cool.
Plus, no matter what I'm doing, if the charger is in, the fan goes bloody nuts.
Thinking I need to move back to a desktop.
These work pretty well for my 9th gen i9 omen for PSU.
https://www.amazon.com.au/Coolerguys-Dual-80mm-Cooling-Fans/…
Super Max-Q = RTX2080 with bottlenecks = RTX2070 equivalent. But then for a 15" laptop it's impressive
Rather wait for the deal to comeback from Lenovo, with the AMD Ryzen 5800H, Nvidia 3070, 165hz QHD panel, 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD for $2439.
But not everyone can get this.
Why would you pay over 2k for a laptop with a previous generation, and under powered, Max-Q GPU.
Yes not everyone can get this even if you have student access, i spoke to the sales and they had only put 10 of them online.
That being said speak to the sales team and see if you can bargain them down
I got it for $2500 same spec model is available for $3,279.00 and for $2799 through student portal
Long wait times expected
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Legion 5 Pro 16" AMD
System details ▶
● AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800H (8C / 16T, 3.2 / 4.4GHz, 4MB L2 / 16MB L3)
● Windows 10 Home 64
● Windows 10 Home 64 English
● Microsoft Office Trial
● 2x 16GB SO-DIMM DDR4-3200
● 1TB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe
● 16.0" WQXGA (2560x1600) IPS 500nits Anti-glare, 165Hz, 100% sRGB, Dolby Vision, HDR 400, Free-Sync, G-Sync, DC dimmer
● NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3070 8GB GDDR6, Boost Clock 1560 / 1620MHz, TGP 140W
● 720p with E-camera Shutter
● 2x, Array
● Storm Grey
● 4-Zone RGB LED backlit, English
● 11ax, 2x2
● Anodizing
● PC/ABS
● Integrated 80Wh
● 300W Slim Tip
● Publication - Traditional Chinese/Simplified Chinese/English
● 1 Year Depot
Sub total: $2,500.00
Shipping: FREE
Total savings: $1,084.00
Total inc GST: $2,500.00
@noobsir: with great difficulty went through 3 different reps and eventually he was able to bring it down to that price
i picked one up that day and just received an email from DHL saying that it is being picked up and to be delivered tomorrow!
Max Q lol
Max Qompromise
At least last gen told you if you were buying a low TDP variant. With the RTX3000 series you've got to do some digging to find out if you're getting a low TDP version
Looking at potentially replacing my gaming desktop with one of these because of space issues plus having two young kids under 3. Would this be a fair replacement for a 1080ti desktop setup (which I currently have)? Not expecting max graphics on the newest games but hoping for a fair trade off.
Did a Google search on this laptop and it's prone to overheating issues, after reading someones post above yours. I would hold off buying until doing more research.
Lol not sure why I read Super Mario
Just buy a razer blade pro 17 from wireless1 for 3k if it is on special. Top specs.
'Just pay $600 more for the same thing'
Very helpful
17” 4K touchscreen
120hz
2080S (max-q)
Etc etc
Worth to pay $600
..This already has a 144hz screen and 2080S.
$600 for a touchscreen on a gaming laptop.. lol
Don't forget to undervolt the cpu and set a power curve in MSI for the gpu. And while you're at it repaste thermal paste/pads with kryonaut.
Haven't pasted a new gaming laptop myself only really old one with mx4 but reading online kryonaut Is prone to pump out and drying up quick over sustained loads of 80c and that a large number of people recommend a thicker viscosity paste for laptop use. Sadly most of the recommendations aren't available in Oz even via import.
looks like this is out of stock now.
Are these HP laptops still prone to overheating issues?