Looking for new laptop

[Gloom-is-good]

Hello!

My Asus ROG laptop will be 10 years old in December (it was an xmas gift). And it's struggling

I've replaced the Hard Drive on it once... I wanna say before the pandemic...?

So anyways, I think it's time to let my baby go. This is the longest I've had a laptop.

**I don't want to spend more than $2k (even that is like... yikes)
**I don't have plans to play a ton of games but I do like the speed of having a gaming laptop lol
**I don't have a hard preference for size. My current one is rather large and I think going smaller would be fine but not too small.
**If there's any models that are coming out in the near future that may be good, I'm willing to wait to purchase

If anyone has any suggestions on what my replacement should be, I'm open!

 

[dimmerwit]

**I don't have plans to play a ton of games but I do like the speed of having a gaming laptop lol

I think you need to elaborate a bit more on this. In 2025 for general tasks even a low/mid range laptop will crunch through non-gaming browsing and video playing as if it's nothing. There's not really much difference to a gaming laptop any more in this respect and you could save a chunk.

Also in terms of new laptops it's often better to buy the previous model as gen-on-gen differences are pretty small these days and again the savings can be substantial for what is a very similar product.

 

[Jawneh]

Laptops are interesting to buy as you can really customize them at all after purchase. Storage and ram are really the only two still for mainstream, though some laptops do have soldered on ram.

Anyhow.

What I suggest is to make a list of features you'd like and start looking what you can find with those. I can start with a short list for you from your post:

- GPU, 4070 or better, or 5070 or better. You won't have issues with gaming for a long time
- RAM, I suggest 32gigs these days
- Screen size looks to be 16 or 17 inches for you
- Resolution, I would suggest 1440p, but 1080p is fine if you don't want a nicer image
- Storage these days is all ssd, so however much you want
- CPU, for intel I would suggest 13th gen or newer. Amd, ryzen 7000 series or newer.


The rest are things like do you want your numpad on the side, a webcam, fingerprint sensor, fancy speakers, touchscreen, rgb stuff. Mostly waiting for sales is the way to go unless you want a brand spanking new one that came out this year. I can help looking at examples this weekend if you want.

 

[Mark]

Hello!

My Asus ROG laptop will be 10 years old in December (it was an xmas gift). And it's struggling

I've replaced the Hard Drive on it once... I wanna say before the pandemic...?

So anyways, I think it's time to let my baby go. This is the longest I've had a laptop.

**I don't want to spend more than $2k (even that is like... yikes)
**I don't have plans to play a ton of games but I do like the speed of having a gaming laptop lol
**I don't have a hard preference for size. My current one is rather large and I think going smaller would be fine but not too small.
**If there's any models that are coming out in the near future that may be good, I'm willing to wait to purchase

If anyone has any suggestions on what my replacement should be, I'm open!

I think you might have more luck over in the Hardware forum, because not a lot of people really pay attention to this forum since it's for member to member sales.

 

[shortkut]

I think you might have more luck over in the Hardware forum, because not a lot of people really pay attention to this forum since it's for member to member sales.

I view the forums by the new posts feature, so I don’t know what forum anything is posted in

 

[Mark]

I view the forums by the new posts feature, so I don’t know what forum anything is posted in

I just "work" here. I know nothing beyond that. I rely too much on notifications, so I end up missing more content than I probably should.

 

[Crystal]

I just "work" here. I know nothing beyond that. I rely too much on notifications, so I end up missing more content than I probably should.

Aisle 17 next to the porcelain toilets. If you hit the garden center you've gone too far.