A laptop to play FC6.

[ericlp]

I'm looking to buy a new laptop to play a games on decently well.

My budget is 1~2K dollars. I was hoping to get AMD APU. But, I am not sure if the built in GPU will be up for the task, if not, then I'll probably have to step up to a 1060 GPU.

Wish list:

Since I traveling in a van, on Solar, I'm hoping for battery life of at least 3~4 hours more would be welcome. Rather not rely on my 100 amp hour lithium battery, in case I don't get enough solar the next day. But... hey, sometimes I'll be staying at parks with full hookups.

I'd like to get a tactile keyboard ... mechanical one would be great.

Thanks!

 

[thecoolnessrune]

I'm looking to buy a new laptop to play a games on decently well.

My budget is 1~2K dollars. I was hoping to get AMD APU. But, I am not sure if the built in GPU will be up for the task, if not, then I'll probably have to step up to a 1060 GPU.

Wish list:

Since I traveling in a van, on Solar, I'm hoping for battery life of at least 3~4 hours more would be welcome. Rather not rely on my 100 amp hour lithium battery, in case I don't get enough solar the next day. But... hey, sometimes I'll be staying at parks with full hookups.

I'd like to get a tactile keyboard ... mechanical one would be great.

Thanks!

Have you considered two different devices? Like a mini gaming PC inside your Van + a more basic laptop or ultrabook for Productivity? The reason I ask is cause of your 3-4 battery life comment. Just to make sure you're aware, pretty much no Gaming Laptop will actually game well off of its Wall power source. The rather small Lithium batteries that are equipped in most gaming laptops do not hold enough energy density to keep a power hungry CPU + GPU at full clocks for any meaningful amount of time, so on battery power those bits are heavily throttled to keep power consumption in check. If you're hoping to play AAA games off wall power, you're going to be disappointed.

Something like a ZOTAC Magnus (with the level of GPU you want to afford) + a good Monitor + a Chromebook that you can also hook to said monitor may be more enjoyable for you overall vs. trying to get one do-all device.

 

[Arkaign]

What he said above is so true.

Look at your average mid-range GPU today. RTX2060, 5600XT etc. Even with the more expensive 'ITX' mini variants of those GPUs, they represent a consideration chunk of PCB and cooling system mass. There is a LOT of trade-off with laptop layouts and lack of flexibility.

Thankfully at least Ryzen 7nm has (in limited quantities) really transformed what mobile CPUs can be, but GPU isn't quite there yet. Even to equal an RTX 2060 desktop performance in laptop form is painfully $$.

It's not as bad as it once was, where you could have literally a card labeled 'Geforce 6800 Go' or whatever, and it would not even be as fast as a desktop 6600 lol.

 

[gorcorps]

I bought the Asus G14 a couple weeks ago, and I really like it so far. It has the newest AMD processor (4900HS), RTX2060 max-Q, for a little under $1500. They have cheaper models as well if you don't need as much gaming power (a 1660ti is still powerful and is $100 cheaper)

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-rog-zephyrus-g14-14-gaming-laptop-amd-ryzen-9-16gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-rtx-2060-max-q-1tb-ssd-moonlight-white/6403816.p?skuId=6403816

14" screen which is smaller than a lot of gaming laptops... whether that's a perk to you or not is up to you. I like how compact and unassuming it is for a gaming laptop, but if you don't need it to be compact than extra screen size would be nice at times.

The biggest perk is the 8-10 hours of low power task battery life. I haven't timed it exactly, but it really does have good battery life for just standard browsing and such.