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gaming mouse is only 74 grams has a pixart 3370 sensor and features up to 80 hours of battery life check it out at the link down below right out of the gate the dell xps 15 is the benchmark for Windows laptops it excels in performance build quality and battery life the only small problem is that it costs over 2 000 us dollars now i think dell might have financing options available if you need them but before you lock into an agreement like that i should tell you that it is possible to find something with more power a longer lasting battery or something much lighter for less than half the price the first and most important thing you need to decide is how much performance you actually need as well as your budget because these two factors will determine what type of laptop you're looking at be honest with yourself if you don't really need a top of the line rtx 3080 GPU sacrificing some FPS could either save you a ton of money or get you a better built machine that's more comfortable to daily drive with that said if performance is your top priority you're probably going to want a gaming laptop generally speaking they have the best cooling they feature the fastest processors and they're cheaper than equally powerful laptops that are marketed at professional creators if you primarily want a laptop for school or work that has enough grunt to game on your brakes you'll be perfectly fine with either a gtx 1650 or an rtx 3050. here are a couple of budget friendly options any of these should serve you very well so i would personally go with whatever's on sale and then return it and try again if i end up hating it if you're looking for something powerful enough to really crank the details in aaa games at 1080p or if you want to drive a high refresh rate panel for smoother animations the rtx 3060 mobile delivers nearly a 40 bump in FPS over the 3050 ti and comes highly recommended especially in ASUS zephyrus g14 and we've also seen some really nice fire sales on last gen 2000 series rtx models above that however things start to get a little complicated a lot complicated in many cases the model of GPU that you choose and that you pay for can have less of an impact on real world performance than the cooling and the power delivery of the overall laptop there's honestly way too much to cover here so instead we made a playlist that you can watch called buying a gaming laptop in 2021 is way more complicated than it should be also get subscribed because i'm sure that the shenanigans are far from over moving on then if gaming for you means playing text twist in your browser or the occasional round of rocket league great news integrated or igpus have gotten shockingly good so you want to avoid a laptop that has low end dedicated graphics like these ones in my opinion they just aren't enough of an upgrade over modern integrated gpus to be worth the extra power draw and heat output your emulated playstation 2 classics are gonna run fine without them as for cpus AMD keeps things pretty simple the bigger the number the more faster it goes and i can easily recommend both the ryzen 4000 and 5000 series processors on mobile they have exceptional efficiency which means great performance in compact or lower priced machines that typically end up with smaller batteries i would hesitate however to go for ryzen 3000 the name seems to suggest that these are based on AMD's zen 2 cores but they are actually based on an older design that is significantly slower and less power efficient as for Intel oh if it's got five numbers followed by an h like this that means it's a faster model with more cores and if it ends in hk like this one it's a super fast boy and is generally capable of overclocking if instead it's got four numbers followed by g4 or g7 like this that means it'll have at most four cores and is intended to be snappy and power efficient rather than capable of handling heavy workloads now for most people only 4 CPU cores isn't going to be a problem but if you plan on running fluid simulations or editing 4k video an h series processor or ideally an 8 core from AMD would be the better choice something to note though is that for Intel their latest 11th gen processors were a significant upgrade they finally switched from 14 nanometer to 10 nanometer so if the latest and greatest isn't within your budget you can't assume that last year's model will be same same but slightly worse the good news however is that in the few years prior to that Intel was basically rehashing the same designs so you'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference between an 8th gen processor and a 10th gen one i'd only go 7th gen and older though if the price was very compelling on a used device fortunately RAM is simple get 16 gigs if you can Windows and chrome are going to make quick work of 8 gigs and if 8 gigs of RAM is all that meets your budget make sure you choose a machine that can be upgraded down the line with slots that look like these ones even if you're not tech savvy ifixit has excellent teardowns that can both help you choose an appropriate model and perform the surgery framework by the way gets an honorable mention here for their outstanding attention to the upgradability of their machines they even go as far as making the integrated ports swappable storage is a similar story to RAM you're probably going to want at least 500 gigs for your SSD but if a 256gb one is all that you can fit in your budget just make sure that the laptop you're considering can be upgraded down the road something you might have realized by now though is that since Intel didn't do a whole lot to improve their laptops between 8th and 10th generations it is entirely possible that someone might think that their old laptop is slow but it actually just needs a little bit more storage or RAM neither of them is super expensive these days so trucking 16 gigs of RAM into a three-year-old laptop maybe with a battery refresh that can usually be found with a quick part number search on ebay could give it a whole new lease on life while you're in there by the way make sure to blow out the cooling system because overheating is the biggest cause of premature laptop failure now to address the elephant in the room AMD and Intel aren't the only options for cpus anymore bringing us to the apple m1 the macbook air and pro m1s are in almost every way the best thin and lights on the market they're extremely snappy feel great to use have excellent screens and the battery life is unmatched by anything that shows this logo on boot up but they aren't perfect the m1 chip has only been out for a year so there are some growing pains for instance our mac guy jonathan has to use teams in a chrome window since there's no native app yet and there's no way to install full x86 Windows as for us the inability to run professional programs like solidworks and altium not to mention games makes the m1 mac a complete no-go so beautiful machine much better keyboard than the old ones just make sure that everything you're going to need will run on it and chromebooks are a similar story if you're on a budget or you already have access to a powerful desktop 95 of the time a chromebook is going to do everything you need it to do but if a chromebook is your only computer your professor or your boss could easily provide you with some mandatory piece of software that you either can't run or are going to have to install in a hacky time-consuming way and at that point you'll probably wish that you'd saved up another 100 bucks and got a Windows device or spent the same amount and gotten a used thinkpad like this one having the fastest laptop around though means nothing if the screen sucks how do you appreciate all the new t-shirt designs on ltteststore.com but seriously the screen is the thing you'll interact with most on your laptop so it really makes sense to skimp on it there are three main panel types the tn ips type and OLED and only one that you should choose tn looks terrible by today's standards and should basically be avoided at all times OLED panels look amazing with crisp blacks and vibrant colors and incredible saturation but they're normally not super bright which kind of matters if you're taking this thing into bright areas like outside they struggle with reflections and they're terrible for battery life which leaves us with ips and ips type panels since lg trademarked ips so other brands have to use different names for the same tech once you know the panel type is okay the color space is the next key thing this describes how many different colors your monitor can produce it can get a bit confusing since there are a bunch of different standards but unless you know you need something else aim for near 100 coverage of srgb pretty basic the vast majority of applications web pages and games are tuned for srgb so unless you're doing professional color work going beyond that to adobe RGB or a dc ip3 is not a requirement more expensive machines may come factory calibrated to account for the slight differences from one panel to the next but there are quick and dirty ways to calibrate it yourself using test patterns that are good enough if you're not doing color critical work something you cannot change after the fact is your panel's brightness it's tough to recommend a single brightness number since 250 nits might be fine on a matte display while 400 nits might not feel like enough on a glossy one but what i can say is that if you're going to be in a bright environment more is generally better finally if you plan on gaming throw out most of what i just said because the single most important thing for you is the refresh rate of your panel a high refresh rate display paired with a good CPU and GPU will allow you to see much smoother animations on the screen and make your gaming experience feel more responsive and immersive we proved outright that going from 60hz to 144hz results in a real world competitive advantage and while 240 hertz and above definitely starts to succumb to the law of dimensioning returns it's safe to say that more is more better at least for competitive gamers if sightseeing games are more your thing though looking at you with your three players a 1440p 120 or 144 hertz ips type is the perfect sweet spot chef's kiss speaking of which you might have noticed that i've hardly touched on resolution that's because despite it being one of the big highlights on a typical manufacturer's web page for the most part it doesn't really matter unless the laptop is extremely cheap or small it will have at least 1080p resolution and since laptops are pretty small in general 1080p is enough for the image to look pretty darn good in our opinion pushing to a 4k display is basically just a waste of battery life unless the 1080p option is a really bad panel a far more important aspect of the display is the ratio of horizontal to vertical pixels for professionals in particular a 16 by 10 or 3x2 display gives you more vertical space to work with for scrolling long documents or editing complex video timelines some laptops with great screens are the surface laptop hpn v14 dell xps ASUS zephyrus m16 and g15 and the lenovo legion pro they're good oh and yeah we like touch screens you might not so hey it's up to you unless you buy a mac then it's up to apple a really important part of a laptop that you can't evaluate from the spec sheet alone is the keyboard and trackpad given these are the bits that you'll physically be touching every time you use it you'll want them to be really good the easiest way to figure out if a keyboard and trackpad are good is to watch some reviews find a host who has some overlapping experience with yours see if you like the same kind of things then find out their most recent opinion on whatever machine you're considering we've got heaps of unboxings over on ShortCircuit like this one right here and i think this one too so if you're lucky we've already taken a look at what you want and if you're not so lucky well i guess it's time to head over to a local big box store like best buy or somewhere and just try some out first thing to do is make sure hands physically fit if they're falling off the edge kind of like this you need a bigger laptop the typefast consistency is the key the more confidence your fingers have the better so kind of just press around the keyboard if the whole thing flexes a bit that can be fine but uneven squishiness can throw off your typing feel around the j and k keys specifically this tends to be a soft spot on some laptops if the deck flex is good then you can evaluate the keys themselves press around the corners to check the stability if the corner kind of dips below the chassis before it actuates don't buy it finally give the keys a press to see how consistent the force required to push them is if some of them take more effort than others keep looking unless you're a hunt and peck typist for you you probably wouldn't notice the difference but if you want to improve your typing in the future maybe you know invest in something that's good our keyboard standouts are the ASUS zephyrus lineup basically any alienware laptop but especially this one with the cherry switches any surface device dell's xps 15 and pretty much anything from hp's envy or spectre lineups while you're tooling around with the keyboard it's a good time to evaluate the palm rejection of the trackpad if the mouse accidentally clicks or moves around while you're typing real bad if none of those things happened try to use the keyboard and then slowly move to touching the trackpad what you're looking for is to see if the trackpad doesn't immediately start working oems will do this to make sure that your palms don't actually trigger it but if it's too aggressive it can make the trackpad feel unresponsive after that check if the trackpad uses Windows precision drivers if it doesn't just don't get the laptop in 2021 no one needs snapdick's drunken drivers from there i personally don't like trackpads with high latency but depending on what panel you have and your personal sensitivity to it you might not notice the difference so it kind of just comes down to trying as many as possible in person and hopefully you can figure out what you like our standout trackpad champs are of course the macbooks xps 15 once again and the zephyrus g15 and m16 the last big ones that we haven't mentioned are weight and battery weight is pretty simple since it's just a function of performance and how much you want to spend this one's real light made of magnesium not cheap but the battery's a lot more complex i wish i could just say something like get an 85 watt hour battery and you'll be good but like these two both have 55 watt hour batteries this one's four hours this one doesn't really work like that because depending on the CPU GPU display and even the tuning of all those things the battery life is just willy-nilly and will vary wildly your only real choice is to find a reviewer who has tested the config you like or something close to it in an industry standard test like the pcmark battery life test anything over about six and a half hours will be serviceable with anything over 11 being pretty darn solid for all-day use big thanks to drop for sponsoring this video with drop you can bring home the battle that changed the marvel cinematic universe forever with their infinity war keycaps that they made in collaboration with marvel they've got purple alphas and modifiers representing the reign of thanos while bright blue legends and several heroic novelties add welcome contrast they're sculpted and drop signature mt3 profile which means the keys are scooped and they feature double shot abs construction and the whole set includes 160 keycaps including a full numpad and extra modifiers for different layouts so why wait turn your battle station into a battlefield and order your infinity war keycaps today at the link 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