JLand
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I should add my work laptop has a dedicated video card that I haven't turned on in the 4+ years I've had it. The integrated graphics are plenty powerful (whatever was the Intel HD du jour from 2018) for 1 1920x1080 and 2 2560x1440 monitors, programming, Excel, and PDFs all open. The GPU doesn't even enable unless it detects a 3D application or you specifically tell it to enable.
I just have a hard time recommending a sleek and shiny Alienware gaming laptop when it's way overkill for 99% of people here and we still don't know how gauntenator intends to use it. For the vast majority of people, laptops can last much longer than they think so long as you keep it relatively clean and attempt a system wipe when it gets slow.
And my personal laptop is a high end gaming laptop (RTX 2080 and some 6 core Coffee Lake CPU). Unless I'm playing a video game or running Fusion360, I literally cannot tell the difference in perceived speed to my twice as old work laptop with a dedicated video card that never gets used.
I just have a hard time recommending a sleek and shiny Alienware gaming laptop when it's way overkill for 99% of people here and we still don't know how gauntenator intends to use it. For the vast majority of people, laptops can last much longer than they think so long as you keep it relatively clean and attempt a system wipe when it gets slow.
And my personal laptop is a high end gaming laptop (RTX 2080 and some 6 core Coffee Lake CPU). Unless I'm playing a video game or running Fusion360, I literally cannot tell the difference in perceived speed to my twice as old work laptop with a dedicated video card that never gets used.
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