Saw this listing by Lenovo https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/computers/laptops/la…
Lenovo 5 Pro with 3060 and Ryzen 7 6800H 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD for 1,999 NZD. Is this a good deal? I'm looking to upgrade from a 1660ti, i5-9300H laptop and has always been a fan of Lenovo laptops as they look professional despite being a gaming laptop.
Most people with modern hardware have almost zero need for a dedicated GPU. Unless you're playing games or have a specific use case for the functions a GPU offers it's wasted cost and extra complexity. In a business most users need email, office and cloud apps so a decent cpu and ram is all you really need to enhance their performance.
The exceptions are really the artistic and design type jobs that need software like Photoshop, illustrator, cad and premiere that need to render models or images. Even then services like canva are cloud based so don't need the grunt that illustrator once demanded and modern cpus can handle basic tasks in these programs.
Final point is there is business gpus from Nvidia, not entirely sure what these do differently to the gaming ones but I think they are more focussed on certain hardware that these professions would need to enhance their work flows and drop some of the gaming featureset that would be sat idle.
The Nvidia ones are focused on ai and machine learning I think. At least that's what Nvidia gtc was talking about I think because I haven't watched it yet.
Yeah, I actually had an M1 macbook air (which the ms has claimed) and it flies through so much stuff with just the on dye cpu.
Apple silicon is very different to normal CPUs. The die essentially has an Nvidia equivalent chip built in. So to only consider it as an integrated GPU is not a good description when it is comparable to a dedicated GPU, which is also claimed in their marketing.
It's unlikely that a 'good business laptop' would be requiring the very fast processing capacity and the high end video card that a gaming laptop would need. Business wouldn't be normally requiring those kind of specs. I would think any reasonable quality laptop with SSD storage and an intel i5-i7, (or even i9), with onboard graphics, would be quite suitable for most business requirements. I"m not sure what you mean by a 'better build' ?
Im thinking back to when the linus tech people were in the kitchen of that house… so it's a while ago, before maxQ and maxP.
I think any business laptop over $2500 will have a dedicated GPU. Build difference will be more compact and solid, maybe more of a metal build for more portability whereas a gaming oriented one will have a far larger cooling system and might be more plasticy.
Also I think you mean rendering capacity not processing.
Listing is gone, not sure if they ran out of stock or just chose to withdraw it. Must have been a good deal.
Only thing I noticed not so great was the 3060. Other specs seem fine but the 3060 seems too expensive at $2000. Really depends on what your playing but triple a high settings might struggle to maintain 60 fps.
That's not bad.
I wonder if anyone here could shed some light, years ago there used to be an idea of a good business laptop being essentially the same as a gaming one but with better build… but idk how that holds up in 2023