MSI Bravo 15 A4DDR Gaming & Design CPU : AMD Ryzen 7 4800H 2.9GHz (16 CPUs) Ram : 16GB DDR4 3200 MHz Hardisk : M.2 512GB Nvme SSD VGA 1 : AMD Radeon™ Graphics UpTo 8GB VGA 2 : AMD Radeon RX 5500M UpTo 12GB

  • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
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    18 days ago

    Honestly build quality matters more than specs if you’re not gaming in my opinion, that’s why old thinkpads are so popular

    I personally got burned by a shitty modern laptop because I only looked at the specs and nothing else

    I’m talking about things like:

    • chassis sturdiness
    • laptop foot grippiness
    • hinge quality
    • touchpad quality/has trackpoint
    • battery longevity (very important)
    • display colour accuracy/viewing angles
    • keyboard tactility/travel/flex

    These things are harder to research but they’re imo way more important than specs

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      18 days ago

      Yeah I’ve fallen into this trap before as well. When I shop for a desktop, I tend to go as high-end as I can afford and then sit on the same machine for 7-10 years until it becomes unusable/support begins to wain. That desktop sits under my desk and doesn’t move that whole time, it is in a very controlled environment.

      You cannot shop that way for a laptop that will be moved and handled and charged and stowed and scratched and bumped and bent and twisted. Even if you take excellent care of it.

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        17 days ago

        Then you gotta go framework. The ports are all swappable. When you break a port like hdmi you’re basically fucked on a standard laptop. And laptops falling off places is basically guaranteed

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      17 days ago

      I bought a modern MSI gaming laptop with awesome on-paper specs and they did something fucky such that the keyboard doesn’t work until about kernel v6.7. The keyboard. Wtf.

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      17 days ago

      This is important. In sturdiness, hinges and so, MSI usually scores very low. Mine is now a desktop laptop because if I move it is hangs and wont let you boot it again for an hour or so. Strange behavior. Lousy wuality computer.