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!


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.