travel do you mean using the computer in a coffee shop ? or setting up a desk at where-ever you travel to ?
I move around with my 27" inch monitor to whichever city I'm going. plus xbox in tow - too heavy. can replace it with a mini itx pc that will hookup to monitor.
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#12Whatever you do, avoid anything new from Dell. The keyboards are incredibly bad, and quality is just lacking. Source: I am the unhappy owner of a several-month old XPS 13.
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#13I 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.
The Verge review [1] went into some detail on this. It runs them fine, because it is ridiculously powerful, but it doesn‘t blow it out of the park like it does in other tasks.
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#14I 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.
I've got the G7 15 7590 running Windows. I'll second that I'm very satisfied with power and form factor, and it's mostly a solid laptop that I'm very happy with. The biggest problem I've had is incredibly poor thermals even when playing mid range games, but this may be model specific (the 7590 was especially bad I believe) and is something you can try to address by repasting. The built-in speakers were pretty poor as well, but most people are probably using headphones.
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#15Best is going to very person to person.
Do you care about weight? Screen size? You need to at least give some pointers or you'll just get random answers.
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#16I use a ThinkPad T14s after my X1 Carbon fell apart. The thicker chassis makes it more reliable for travel, and the Ryzen CPU can play most Xbox games pass games fine. If you don't need Linux then the new Macs seem pretty amazing though.
My all time favourite laptop is the X220 though, lasted 10 years or more. Only got rid of it because I messed up replacing the screen.
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#17If you are traveling internationally, don't forget about the warranty. Some laptop manufacturers will only service your laptop in the country of purchase. Or they'll claim you have international service, but the service is so bad you basically don't have a warranty.
The greatest laptop in the world is useless if it's broken and you can't repair it.
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#18Whatever you do, avoid anything new from Dell. The keyboards are incredibly bad, and quality is just lacking. Source: I am the unhappy owner of a several-month old XPS 13.
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#19If money really is not an issue then check out the Zenbook Pro Duo Ux582.
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#20Do you like Macs? Probably MacBook Pro then. Linux fan? ThinkPad (I like the chunkier ones, so T or P series) IMO. Although any high end offering from Acer, HP or Dell is nice too and all have decent reviews WRT Linux. Windows fan? Probably same. Biggest question though is what kind of gaming? Need discrete card or nah?