Correction, don’t buy a cheap gaming laptop. There are plenty of ones like the lenovo legion and rog strix g16 that have good build quality and will last you years.
The ones with crappy plastic and overheat regularly are usually the ones under $1000
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kersplomp@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
PSA: Don’t buy a gaming laptop. They are trash. The plastic case will melt, the wifi card will come loose, the battery will die within minutes. A steam deck is truly your best option.
simple@piefed.social 3 days ago
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah I have a gaming laptop and I haven’t used it since I got a steam deck.
happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Why no Alienware? Is it because they’re extremely expensive and overpriced?
Deconceptualist@leminal.space 2 days ago
Yeah. And Dell bought them a long time ago so they would have a ‘gaming’ brand. Just buy a regular Dell machine and save money, it’s about as simple as that.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Literally every higher end laptop gets called a gaming laptop… It’s a nothing term. Even the absolute least flashy laptop with no RGB and is basically just a glorified Thinkpad with a 4080 mobile in it gets called a gaming laptop just cause of the 4080.
Saying don’t buy a gaming laptop basically means you can’t buy literally any good high end hardware full stop.
It’s a short sighted and frankly stupid piece of advice that just hurts people.
The Alienware bit tho, that’s spot on. 100% fuck em.
happeningtofry99158@lemmy.world 2 days ago
whats with alienware? bad quality?
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Overpriced, over-hyped consumer hardware that’s loud, obnoxious, and not that much better than significantly cheaper options.
You’re paying for the brand, and a bunch of obnoxious LED lights that are plugged in to every spare inch of the thing.