Sister looking for a PC, sees Lenovo Legion...

[sandorski]

..it's On Sale at Staples. I look at it, since she asked for advice, see NVidia 1060 Graphics on one list, then 6gb Graphics Memory on another list, and I'm all like, "Ya, looks good"(she expressed maybe wanting to do VR Gaming). She notes it says that "VR Ready - No" and though I'm no VR expert, that didn't seem right. So I double check things, "Graphics - Dedicated" and "Graphics Memory" was actually, "Dedicated Graphics Memory". At this point I'm convinced Staples probably doesn't know what any of these things mean and some Data Entry clerk entered whatever seemed likely to them. The Price seems to indicate that the 1060 is indeed what's in it. So I suspect the Noobs wouldn't get ripped off, but anyone like me gets all rustled by the sketchy details.

I suppose this Thread is mostly me just venting, but conveniences can be so inconvenient at times.(FWP. Sad.)

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[mikeymikec]

Yeesh, no SSD!

That price tag is obscene for a PC that will perform slower in many (most?) ways than most PCs with an SSD. I'd rule it out for that reason alone. Save the money from the i7, knock it down to an i5 and stick a decent SSD in instead, probably end up with the same price (I wouldn't like to say that with confidence as I'm from the UK) and a PC that performs far better in most cases.

Though I assume that with a nv 1060 in there is the graphics card really not going to have its own graphics RAM? AFAIK the 1060 is somewhat further up in the range than say a GeForce 6200 "TurboCache" back in the day; I wouldn't be surprised if it can also draw on system RAM once its own (likely reasonable amount) is depleted. One potential gotcha at the lower end of the range is that they sometimes use slow graphics RAM (e.g. DDR3 instead of GDDR5), which would likely hobble its graphics performance greatly.

 

[sandorski]

Yeesh, no SSD!

That price tag is obscene for a PC that will perform slower in many (most?) ways than most PCs with an SSD. I'd rule it out for that reason alone. Save the money from the i7, knock it down to an i5 and stick a decent SSD in instead, probably end up with the same price (I wouldn't like to say that with confidence as I'm from the UK) and a PC that performs far better in most cases.

Though I assume that with a nv 1060 in there is the graphics card really not going to have its own graphics RAM? AFAIK the 1060 is somewhat further up in the range than say a GeForce 6200 "TurboCache" back in the day; I wouldn't be surprised if it can also draw on system RAM once its own (likely reasonable amount) is depleted. One potential gotcha at the lower end of the range is that they sometimes use slow graphics RAM (e.g. DDR3 instead of GDDR5), which would likely hobble its graphics performance greatly.

Prices are $CDN, so 20-30% difference to $US should be taken into account. Since it's Staples which is an Office Supplies store, I suspect all systems are As Is and not configurable.