Comment on Need help(advice) with buying new laptop
domdanial@reddthat.com 4 months ago
I feel like you’ll end up having to pick some compromises, or spend a lot of money. I think your best bet would be a desktop PC that has a bit more punch for less money than a laptop would be, and then also buy a laptop for your actual laptop needs, if you can find used options you might come in at budget. A laptop with integrated graphics can handle some games, you probably need to pick non-graphic intense games for gaming on the go.
There are some new laptops coming out from Qualcomm that have a Snapdragon X, and they are not as versatile or powerful as Intel or AMD, but they are incredibly power efficient and cheaper. (They are new so we’ll see how that pans out )
$1000 is not enough IMO for a catchall laptop with a modern GPU, AI capable, power efficient, repairable, and lightweight. A 800$ desktop and a $200 laptop/Chromebook/used thinkpad and SSD can probably cover your real use case of school laptop and also gaming/AI at home.
nikhil@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
I had something similar in my mind. Snapdragon processor does’t have that great app support yet, so I am wary of buying it (and probably they’ll be selling around 500-600$ next year)
I am thinking of either Acer swift x(2021) or buying a used elitebook/thinkpad with a decent cpu and ram to run smaller models with llama.cpp on it and waiting for something like steam deck in my country for games.
GPUs (nvidia) that I need are so overpriced and I have so little time lately to mess around it will probably be cheaper to rent on linode or something.