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Better luck here, but I shy away from thinner gaming laptops like the ones Razer makes. Thick chunky laptops weight a ton but then so does my old thinkpads. Thi

Better luck here, but I shy away from thinner gaming laptops like the ones Razer makes. Thick chunky laptops weight a ton but then so does my old thinkpads. Thin laptops have ruined our ability to cool things reasonably. They weren't the most powerful, but Dells Inspiron series of gaming laptops have been pretty good the last few years. Especially when it comes to price Dell and Acer keep putting out sub $700 gaming laptops you can often find on sale for $600 or $650. They almost all have an open m.2 slot or 2.5inch bay for extra cheap storage and swappable ram. Currently I'm on a Maingear Vector Pro (Ryzen 5800H / Nvidia 3070) and a blessing is just how tweakable the fan profiles are as well as power adjustments for each of the saved profiles I have setup. AMD's lastest mobile parts are still extremely performant with a 35W power cap if I want to keep the fan speed down. All else fails I can just hit the 100% fan button and even under full load the cpu is hovering around 78C and gpu around 68C. It's loud but I don't do rendering often so its a compromise I'm willing to have for the amount of portable power.

junar 5y ago
FYI, Dell no longer uses the Inspiron brand for gaming laptops. The successor line is called "G Series".
bodge5000 5y ago
I used to have a thicker gaming laptop and yeh thermals were certainly better, but I found its build quality lacking and performance just wasn't really there comparative to its massive size and pretty high price. Credit where credits due to the razer, it performs admirably, and is built well, it just can't keep itself cool. I've heard good things about the dell laptops, although that was mainly the XPS range which are more thinkpad competitors. I think for the time being though I'm going to avoid high spec laptops as a desktop replacement, I'll either settle for the drop in specs and use one of my many thinkpads as my main computer, or get a desktop.

junar 5y ago

FYI, Dell no longer uses the Inspiron brand for gaming laptops. The successor line is called "G Series".

bodge5000 5y ago

I used to have a thicker gaming laptop and yeh thermals were certainly better, but I found its build quality lacking and performance just wasn't really there comparative to its massive size and pretty high price. Credit where credits due to the razer, it performs admirably, and is built well, it just can't keep itself cool. I've heard good things about the dell laptops, although that was mainly the XPS range which are more thinkpad competitors. I think for the time being though I'm going to avoid high spec laptops as a desktop replacement, I'll either settle for the drop in specs and use one of my many thinkpads as my main computer, or get a desktop.