Ask HN: Which Is the Best Laptop?

Posted by throwawayt856 on Thursday August 06, 2020 @02:05PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Asus ROG Zephyrus G14

Lenovo Legion 5

Acer Swift 3

Dell G5 15

Please help me choose one.

Edit: I will be using the laptop for coding, video editing, casual gaming and streaming. My budget is under $1000.

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Re:Ask HN: Which Is the Best Laptop? by duxup on Thursday August 06, 2020 @02:51PM (#24074186)

Use case and what you value is what really matters here.

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Re:Ask HN: Which Is the Best Laptop? by throwawayt856 on Thursday August 06, 2020 @03:07PM (#24074344)

I will be using it for coding, video editing, casual gaming and streaming. My budget is under $1000.

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Re:Ask HN: Which Is the Best Laptop? by Someone1234 on Thursday August 06, 2020 @04:48PM (#24075311)

And an external video card in an enclosure isn't an option? Even a cheap PC video card will out-perform these laptops discrete ones.

But it matters before purchase because the laptops needs the correct IO to hook up to an external enclosure (Thunderbolt 3).

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Re:Ask HN: Which Is the Best Laptop? by giantg2 on Thursday August 06, 2020 @03:02PM (#24074299)

You probably don't want my opinion. I'm cheap.

I have a 13 year old Inspiron (swapped HDD for SSD) and it works for me.

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Re:Ask HN: Which Is the Best Laptop? by satvikpendem on Thursday August 06, 2020 @10:55PM (#24077542)

Looks like you're already considering Ryzen 4000 series laptops already. Stick with one of those and add a GPU to it, especially for the video editing part. I don't know exactly which one that is, but check out r/AMDLaptops for suggestions.

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Re:Ask HN: Which Is the Best Laptop? by tubu on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:42PM (#24083882)

If it were for me I would go for the G14. The Ryzen 4900H is very powerful and the laptop is pretty light weight (compared to other gaming laptops).

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