I’m looking to buy a laptop for gaming, doing personal finance, and other miscellaneous minor things like storing photos and files.
Regarding gaming, I’m more of a retro gamer. I don’t need a computer that can handle the newest and greatest games. I do like to mod games, though.
Regarding personal finance & etc., I highly value privacy and security. But I also value ease of use. I haven’t had my own computer for over a decade, having gotten by with my smartphones and whatever computer or laptop I was assigned at work. As intrigued as I am about Linux, for example, it’s beyond my scope (at least for now).
My budget is flexible. I’d like to spend around a grand. I’m willing to spend a few grand if I was confident I could keep it for at least 5 years without slowdown or obsolescence.
This is my first time on this sub. I’m cross posting with /Laptop because I have no idea which of the two is the right place to ask this.
I’m fairly inexperienced with Reddit so please be forgiving.
For something really long term perhaps take a look at the Framework 16. These are a modular laptop with changeable motherboards, plugin GPUs, modular RAM and SSD slots.
The hardware would blow your budget up by 2x but it assuming you keep up with maintenance and upgrades it could last awhile unless they completely change shit around.
If your biggest concern is longevity, you definitely want a business class laptop.
Lenovo Thinkpad T series is the class leader for durability. Also good are HP business class. I’ve had a ZBook for 3 years now which has been great. I’ve heard the ProBook and Elitebook lines are good too.
I think one of the best long term brands for laptops is Lenovo, so you could go for a Lenovo legion for gaming with a mid range graphics card that would suit your budget, and it should be capable of doing the other things you mentioned too.
The Ryzen 7 cpus have good speed, good battery life, and good intergrated graphics if you played lower demand games are played through steam. This would be good, and I know that Walmart had some good Ideapad Slim models with Ryzen 7 or 5.
This one’s hard laptop(especially gaming laptop) is a gamble, if you ask me 2 years ago I would just said make sure to keep it clean, do not block the airflow and got the best money to performance ratio, rn I’ve seen a lot of good taken care gaming laptop break for no reason.
If you have the budget I said get a business grade workstations that can play game or a framework laptop, if not whatever laptop you buy make sure you can extend the warranty, never go a day without warranty.
