Pure gaming laptop recommendation help plz.

Titchy · 16 Sep 2023 at 19:27

Hi guys , I’m after a laptop purely for portable gaming while working away from home.

It has to be under 2k , ideally under 1750 but can be flexible for the right machine.

I’ve a cracker off a MacBook just now but sadly if you shut it down it can be rebooted back up by pressing the keyboard. This is not permitted in helicopters so I’m going back to a windows laptop.

This means that it needs to be properly shutdown and can’t reboot by a key press. Only by the actual power button.

I’m after ideally as near to top end a gfx card as the budget allows.

16gb memory as a minimum.

Any and all help appreciated.

Basically as high end for pure gaming as the budget allows and it must shutdown properly and only be rebootable by a power button as the MacBook boots back up on keystrokes which isn’t allows for flying.

Thanks all

Snapshot · 17 Sep 2023 at 18:32

The Lenovo Legion 5 Pro should suit your needs.

Titchy · 20 Sep 2023 at 19:12

Snapshot said:
The Lenovo Legion 5 Pro should suit your needs.

Thanks for the reply. Funnily enough it’s a Lenovo I’ve gone for. Ended up with a pro 7i 16

It’s an i9 13900 with 32gb of memory and 1tb SSD. The gfx card is a bit marmite as I’m aware of its shortcomings but I couldn’t justify the leap up. So it’s a nvidia 4070. Couldn’t go a 4080 / 4090 at my price point.

goldy6660 · 20 Sep 2023 at 19:35

Snapshot said:
The Lenovo Legion 5 Pro should suit your needs.

So many people rate this lappy. Don't think I've seen many moan about it

dave28 · 20 Sep 2023 at 19:35

Lenovo are great, the warranty stays with the machine and they tend to have a half decent case / keyboard.

im sure you will be happy with it

jrwagh333 · 21 Sep 2023 at 11:44

Ditched using an external keyboard when at home with my Legion 5i as the built in one is so good

Titchy · 21 Sep 2023 at 22:33

Thanks for all the replies lads. As long as the 4070 will run new games at a reasonable standard I’m happy. Just couldn’t quite go a 4080 or better right now. Will be interesting to see , I’m aware it gets mixed reviews.

Alexrose1uk · 16 Oct 2023 at 17:40

I really liked my Legion, unfortunately I had to return it as it suffered badly from the fTPM stuttering and Lenovo never bothered to patch my model (or the 4 or 5XXX series AMD Radeon processor units)'s BIOS with the AGESA which resolved the issue.
If it did not have that quirk, I'd have likely kept it for as long as it worked, as the 6800H/32GB/3070TI mobile was plenty fast for a portable machine, and the screen was decent, but the stuttering just drove my nut in, and having to disable Hybrid GPU, Gsync and TPM to get the machine to work as expected was just not a long term goer for me.

Pretty sad state of affairs, there's an 83 page issue on Lenovo's public forums about it that Lenovo are essentially just blindsiding now.

That is the downside of Lenovo (and most OEMs IMO), the aftermarket support is not great.

This all being said, the Intel version will not suffer from this, and I expect it'll be a lovely machine.

Bolerus · 22 Oct 2023 at 16:58

Just adding 2p worth. if a Laptop 1660 is not as powerful as a desktop 1660 ( just using that as an example - as that is what my laptop has) how are you supposed to compare them and know which laptop graphics cars is the one you need for current gaming, or are the later ones more in line?