Ask HN: What‘s the best all-in-one coding/gaming/travel Notebook?

#1

Post by recvonline » Sat, Nov 13, 2021, 12:11 PM UTC

Question says it all. Money is not an issue! Are the new MacBook Pros it? Razer Blade? What is the best overall notebook I can use for everything?

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Post by vesuvianvenus » Sat, Nov 13, 2021, 1:58 PM UTC

What do you know about the differences between the 3 main OS (windows, mac, linux) as they relate to your question?

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#3

Post by srivathsaharish » Sat, Nov 13, 2021, 2:02 PM UTC

Asus zephyrus 14 latest edition with AMD Ryzen, definitely worth it, not even as costly as others

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#4

Post by pwnmonkey » Sat, Nov 13, 2021, 2:02 PM UTC

What games do you play? I think that will be the biggest factor in any decision you might make.

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#5

Post by lordnacho » Sat, Nov 13, 2021, 2:02 PM UTC

I suppose it depends a lot on what the game is, but I've found the new MBP has amazing performance and battery life. Nothing seems to really stress it out thus far, I can sit and compile stuff, browser videos and so on without thinking too much about running out of juice. By comparison I also have a maxed out 2019 and that will huff and puff with similar loads, and run out of juice before the day is up.

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Post by macco » Sat, Nov 13, 2021, 2:04 PM UTC

I like my Dell G7 17 - 7700 with Ubuntu installed.

A nice combination of power, form factor and battery life. I would prefer it to a MacBook or Blade any time.

If this is the case for you to, I don't know.

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Post by capableweb » Sat, Nov 13, 2021, 2:11 PM UTC

lordnacho wrote: post #5

I suppose it depends a lot on what the game is, but I've found the new MBP has amazing performance and battery life. Nothing seems to really stress it out thus far, I can sit and compile stuff, browser videos and so on without thinking too much about running out of juice. By comparison I also have a maxed out 2019 and that will huff and puff with similar loads, and run out of juice before the day is up.

Is any Mac hardware actually up for the task of gaming, especially the new M1 ones? One would think that you'd have to run a virtualized environment to even get it started, and performance will most likely be very bad. Even Linux seems like a better choice than Apple for gaming today, even if it also uses virtualization.

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Post by bogwog » Sat, Nov 13, 2021, 2:12 PM UTC

Avoid Razer because they’re unreliabe garbage. They look nice, but they die on their own. Mine died after ~2 years of infrequent use.

My “does it all” machine is a Thinkpad X220T with Linux. I can do programming on it, and drawing with the Wacom digitizer. It can’t play most modern AAA games, but I personally have never enjoyed gaming on laptops anyways.

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Post by hiyer » Sat, Nov 13, 2021, 2:14 PM UTC

srivathsaharish wrote: post #3

Asus zephyrus 14 latest edition with AMD Ryzen, definitely worth it, not even as costly as others

+1 for this. I have last year's edition - it's fast and cool enough for the games I play (though admittedly I don't play too many graphics-heavy ones) and lightweight (1.6Kg) enough to lug around wherever you want.

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#10

Post by atoav » Sat, Nov 13, 2021, 2:15 PM UTC

I like tuxedo notebooks (for linux/windowsndual use)