Help me choose my next laptop

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Not everyone has thousands to spare.

And I fucking hate Apple.
Sounds like pleb-talk to me!

I have a macbook also but prefer the surface.

Pony up the money and buy one or I will change your username to Pleb.
Let's just say I don't already own one and change it to Pleb just because that name clearly is a bit more punchy and has a ring to it.

Single syllable words are my favorite anyway (they're the easiest to remember).
 
You are doing yourself a disservice if you don't get the new M1 Macbook. Look at benchmarks and you will see. These windows laptops don't compare and it's actually fuckin ridiculous how insanely optimized Apple made these chips.

I'm a PC guy, and always been a PC guy my whole life. I've never owned a Mac, but these M1 Macbooks might be the first Macs I buy (I'll probably wait for the next generation).


EDIT: @BTB, for that price you as well should take a look at the M1 macs. I wouldn't recommend you buy Intel chip macbooks, as Apple has already stopped working with them and using their own chips now.
 
I know my back would appreciate the lightweight aspect of it, but do you think it's more durable for heavy duty than the MSI?

All laptops are designed for the wear and tear of the everyday life of an average person. MSI is probably a step further in that regard, but not really something most people need.

I was using an 8-year-old Sony and it was going great and then updated to the latest Lenovo a couple of years ago. One thing I noticed is that the lightweight of the laptop caused me to use it in a variety of different ways that I had never thought of before.. like the ease of carrying it anywhere really was an eye-opener for me as I could never have imagined that with the old sony. Just something to think about. Convenience is really something I would look for in a laptop, but then again, I never play games.
 
I spend around $900 for Mi NoteBook 14, Horizon Edition

10th Generation Intel® Core™ i7
NVIDIA® GeForce® MX350
512GB NVMe SSD
And best thing is it got around 8 hours of actual battery back up.

It's a beast with beauty

Dell would sell same thing for not less than $2500
 
I used to hate apple too but their latest M1 Macbook air is so cheap given its performance and spec none another laptop can go against it with that price range + performance
 
Why not go for AMD ones? Cheaper and better performance, better value in general
 
You are doing yourself a disservice if you don't get the new M1 Macbook.
I own one.

Do NOT under any circumstances buy the 8GB version. I'm limping through with this pile of shite until the M1 16" comes out in a few months, but this thing is tragically weak.

It struggles to run Pycharm and doesn't like having more than about 4 or 5 apps open at once. My 2014 Macbook had more balls this this.
 
I own one.

Do NOT under any circumstances buy the 8GB version. I'm limping through with this pile of shite until the M1 16" comes out in a few months, but this thing is tragically weak.

It struggles to run Pycharm and doesn't like having more than about 4 or 5 apps open at once. My 2014 Macbook had more balls this this.
Yup. I didn't mention this. You definitely want to go with the 16GB especially for future-proofing cause you can't upgrade RAM in a macbook.
 
I own one.

Do NOT under any circumstances buy the 8GB version. I'm limping through with this pile of shite until the M1 16" comes out in a few months, but this thing is tragically weak.

It struggles to run Pycharm and doesn't like having more than about 4 or 5 apps open at once. My 2014 Macbook had more balls this this.
Yup. I didn't mention this. You definitely want to go with the 16GB especially for future-proofing cause you can't upgrade RAM in a macbook.

Not being a hardware guy at all and hearing this, defo going for the upgradeable msi
 
Not being a hardware guy at all and hearing this, defo going for the upgradeable msi
The thing is, I don't really see people upgrade their laptops. I know the Macbooks are more expensive, but just take a look at how they performing compared to similarly prices Windows laptops.

If you do go with something else, AT LEAST get one with an SSD. It makes a world of a difference and is worth the extra money.
 
Please link to the one you are going to get. Everyone else.... we might be plebs, dorks, fat, ugly, no girlfriend, dweebs, and gay but we hate Macbooks :p:p
 
I love to use HP Notebook ..

if you want to use AMD Ryzen you can try HP ProBook 635 Aero G7 Notebook PC, I recommend choosing Ryzen 7 with 16GB memory ( you can play League Of Legend with the integrated AMD Radeon vega 7)

https://store.hp.com/us/en/mdp/laptops-and-workstations/hp-probook-635
if you want to use Intel CPU, you can try HP 240 G8 with core i7-1065G7 if it is available in your region..
 
List all the pros and cons of both machines and choose one. :p

Think about how long do you want to use the laptop and if you really need a laptop for gaming. The issue with PC/laptop gaming is that it costs a lot, if you always want to play with the latest games. The graphics card in the MSI is a mid range one, so not the strongest to begin with and it's a year old model already. Graphics cards age faster than milk, in laptops you can't upgrade them either.

For gaming i'd get a console, a PS5. Console generations last 7 years, for that tenure you're set from the price of a top range graphics card. You don't need to spend the price of the console on a new graphics card in every 2 years to be able to keep up with the pace.

As long as these two processors go, it's not that black and white that this specific i7 (i7-1065G7) is better than the i5 (i5-9300H). Take a look at comparison tests. In 3D rendering the i5 in the MSI is better, it scores higher on Cinebench 15 too, while the i7 is newer and doesn't need that much power. The area where this i7 shines is the iGPU, that's two times faster than in the i5.

The rest of the specs are pretty self-explanatory, whether the 256 GB storage capacity is enough or it would be better to have double the capacity. Whether you want to get something smaller, more lightweight, which is easier to carry or a more robust machine with bigger screen.
 
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