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Budget gamer here. Looking to buy a laptop. (self.pcmasterrace)

submitted 1 year ago by lord___vader to c/[email protected]

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Hi! I wanted to buy a budget gaming laptop at around ~800 USD (equivalent). Currently checking out a gigabyte 3060/11400@ 850$. Is this priced right? Shoukd I look for better deals? Also, what about gigabyte laptops, are they reliable? Should I buy it? What brands should I look for, if not?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spend $350 on a steam deck and $120 to upgrade it to 1 TB storage.

Only negative is if you're into multi-player fps games like fortnite and such. Anti cheat software a lot of them use aren't Linux compatible. You can install windows, but that's a pretty meh experience.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Can you use a steam deck like a laptop? Can you do PC stuff with it like web browsing, email, etc?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yes, albeit on a small screen unless you plug it in via dock or adapter to a larger screen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To have a better ex0erience than simply using your cell phone you can plug the deck into a dock and use an external screen and mouse and keyboard.

The steam deck is a computer with 16 gigs ram and an AMD APU. Flat out. It comes with a custom Linux distro set up to play games, but you can install any OS (or multiple OS') and use it any way you could use any other PC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Jfc. How.big and beefy is your phone?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Note 20 Ultra....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I replaced my dying gaming laptop with a steam deck about a year ago now. At home I have it set up in a dock, connected to a good monitor with keyboard and mouse.

It does everything I want it to except, and I just found this out this week when trying to make some proxy cards so my kid can play Lorcana, that Arch Linux apparently doesn't support Brother printer drivers currently. Something about not having CUPS? I don't know but I'm a total Linux layman.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Oof. Sorry bro. You ran afoul of printers and cups. Brother used to be better than that.

Dont use printers. Problems solved. 😉

Edit, its linux at this point, you can emulated it one way or another right? It's all files.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Fyi I just started [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not sure why someone would want to.

Steam Deck is specifically for gaming. You "could" since it's a Linux.

But with $800, I would rather buy a SteamDeck for dedicated gaming, and a cheap Linux Thinkpad for dedicated laptop use. Rather than one single system that half asses both.