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I mostly agree. > There are a myriad of quality "gaming" laptops out there, but obviously that's not for everybody, and that's one of many reasons why workstat
by eru 1y ago
I mostly agree.
> There are a myriad of quality "gaming" laptops out there, but obviously that's not for everybody, and that's one of many reasons why workstation laptops exist (basically the same thing - ability to run at high loads for extended periods of time - without the gamer aesthetic).
For the last few years, I thought 'gaming' was more GPU heavy and 'workstations' were heavier on the CPU and RAM?
Though I wonder how much that has changed recently or will change soon: after all with the rise of (local) AI, perhaps more work will move to the GPU?
- Fade_Dance 1y agoI think you are correct, although some work stations are possible to be specced with the "big" GPUs found in the gaming laptops. On the "gaming" side, the hulking neon plastic gamer aesthetic somewhat gave way to a new popular class of gaming-laptop that is more sleek, and those machines often have the mid-range GPUs that you'd find in a workstation. It's all fairly blurred now.
- delta_p_delta_x 1y ago> For the last few years, I thought 'gaming' was more GPU heavy and 'workstations' were heavier on the CPU and RAM? On workstations you can get both. The Dell Precision 7XXX, HP Zbook Fury, and Lenovo P5x/P7x series are the primary high-end notebook workstations, and they are all nearly infinitely configurable with a myriad of CPU, GPU, memory, storage, display, and connectivity options. I myself have a Precision 7560 from 2021 that has a Xeon W 11955M, and an RTX 3080 Laptop GPU that's roughly between a desktop 3060 and 3070 in performance due to the power limit of 90 W. Before that I had a Precision 7530 from 2018 that had a Xeon E 2176M. Both Precisions have 4 DDR4 slots for up to 128 GB, 3 M.2 slots (and an additional one for the WiFi module), and full repair/service manuals online.