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submitted 1 year ago by gsf@lemmy.sdf.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

My mom likes to play No Man's Sky and Valheim, but her Asus TUF started freezing on games. RMA found no problems and sent it back to her but it still happens. I ordered a Legion for her but now I see these posts about all Nvidia 40-series laptops freezing up. What's a gaming mom supposed to do?

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[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago

Repost my comment why gaming laptop is a scam(can't copy comment link cause the link failed for me):

gaming laptops are pretty much scam anyway, as person "once" fall for such scam.

  • they are really heavy, not really good with travel.
  • they are also power hungry, might be less than your actual tower rig, but significantly more than common "business laptop"
  • the battery won't last with degradation where you constantly plug it in.( to gain the boosted frequency where you can play games at higher settings/frame rate)
  • your upgrade path is very limited and they won't have the parts after like 2~3 years.(so anything broken you have to try find it on ebay/amazon/aliexpress)

for portable gaming during travel, your best choice is consoles. So switch, steamdeck, heck, even PS4 slim is better than gaming laptop.(hopefully PS5 pro/slim is made into form for easier box/travel format.)

[-] jmf@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Before Steam deck these were non options if you cared about pc specific games, now that is obviously the golden option!

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