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I am once again trying to preach to ozb about the goodness of these budget LOQ laptops. They arent 'legion' amazing, that is true, given them being rebranded ideapad gamings. However, the overall build quality is still miles above shoddy low end MSI and gigabyte using years old chasis and shoehorn them with modern internals specs:
While this is a good 200$ above some 4050 deals posted on here, you are also getting a much more complete setup, there is the mux switch, obviously, its a 95w 4050 (I apologise for before where I mistakenly thought these had the same 115w as the 4060 LOQs), which is right at the top edge of the power to performance scaling for low end 40 gen cards. Which means you are getting the full performance out of these, unlike some shoddy 45w/75w machines I mentioned before. The screen is probably the best part about this, its a 1440p, 165hz, 100% srgb, 350 nits screen which is as good as a gaming panel gets at this price. Last but certainly not the least, you are getting the 7640HS, which means its a proper zen4 chip, and being amd, means it scales especially well in a thermally compromised lower end chasis such as the LOQ, as opposed to other brands loving to stuff in surplus 12th gen intel H chips inside theirs.
Combined with 13% cashback on cashrewards for aforementioned 1.3k pricetag. I hope my math isnt off here. If it is, let me know,
I think you’re right that getting this screen (slightly above average) and this processor at this price is excellent. But it’s so hard to get past just how underwhelming the 4050 is in general :(