What’s the laptop right now with the best “Quality × Performance / Price” ratio? I want to make sure every dollar I spend is worth it.

  • My budget is around $2,000 ± $500.
  • I’m fine upgrading the hardware myself
  • don’t need Windows preinstalled if that saves me money
  • at least 32GB of RAM.
  • Size: any
  • Screen: any

Basically, I’m looking for a high-performance, high-quality gaming laptop that worth its money.

Thank you for your suggestions!

  • Holeheadou92984@lemmy.worldOP
    2·
    1 day ago

    Now is the time to scope out used Lenovo thinkbooks if you’re good installing Linux on it.

    Thanks for the tip! But in my case I really need a brand new laptop, (because it’s not for me)

    To better answer your question, well need to know what you’re using it for in general. Gaming? Coding stuff? Just a social media and TV browsing box? Creating or editing content?

    Gaming, Coding, AI… I would need the laptop to perform well under all those circumstances. so basically high end gaming laptop. Could you give me some recommendations?

    • foggy@lemmy.world
      2·
      23 hours ago

      If you need AI, you need a minimum of 4gb VRAM in your GPU. But really… 8gb…

      Get a Lenovo Thinkpad new with 8gb VRAM and 32gb ram. With a 4k display and 2TB nvme SSD, I am guessing will ballpark around $2k depending on CPU.

      • Holeheadou92984@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        13 hours ago

        I’m willing to go above 2000, 4k display is not really important to me and I care most about Quality × Performance / Price, is lenovo the best with its competitors regarding high Quality × Performance / Price?

        • foggy@lemmy.world
          1·
          12 hours ago

          In many Linux users opinion, yes. The Lenovo Thinkpad is goated. I’d share that opinion. Very happy with mine and it’s 6 years old. If it’s still in price range, see if you can find one with an AMD Ryzen 9 CPU, recent gens.