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"Sager NP6858CQ 15.6-Inch Thin Bezel FHD 144Hz Gaming Laptop, Intel i7-10750H, GTX 1660Ti 6GB, 16GB RAM, 1TB NVMe SSD, Windows 10" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B089KW3Y1R that I ordered in summer 2020, for $1,346.42 total.
Currently running Windows 11; it's what I've been video capturing (via OBS--see entry 1636), PC gaming, and emulating with. I'd thought of it as a mid-range gaming laptop in 2020, but to my surprise it's been able to handle even fairly recent 3D action games--Elden Ring (see entry 1687), for instance--at full or close to full (GTA V 'p'--see entry 1602) detail, while capturing at 60fps. |
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| | | The keyboard does get hot to the touch--as did my previous laptop--when running the CPU hard, and especially in warm weather in my non-air-conditioned but usually fairly cool anyway basement apartment; I'm using separate mouse and keyboard though so that doesn't matter TOO much. I find the key LED lights annoying, but you can turn them off with the included app.
One real quirk: the laptop's WiFi signal would cut out once in a while; turned out this was from the generic HDMI cable I was using https://smbhax.com/cgi-bin/newsarchive.pl?p=3220 . Solved the problem by replacing that cable with a "AudioQuest 1.5M Forest HDMI 48G" listed at $89.95 in 2021; the same listing https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08JHC35KB is now $99.95. Fortunately, that "unidirectional cable with silver-coated solid copper conductors" stopped the laptop's WiFi outages; a $7 (now $9.84) "triple-shielded" "Mediabridge™ HDMI Cable (3 Feet) 8K/10K @ The Max120Hz Refresh Rate, High Speed, Hand-Tested, HDMI 2.1 - UHD, 48Gbps, Dynamic HDR" cable https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001MZXUI6 I'd tried first had not; before those, I'd also tried and failed with a 3' Amazon Basics cable and a thicker 6' white Sony cable. One of the laptop's rear air vents is right next to the HDMI port--and it's Ethernet port is on the other side of it, I wonder if that corresponds to the WiFi radio location. (Hadn't had this problem with my previous lappy, whose Ethernet and HDMI ports were on opposite sides.) |
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| | | The remaining trouble I have with it is that it has only 3 regular USB ports (one 2.0 (left side, front), one 3.2 Gen 1 (left side, back), one 3.2 Gen 2 (right side)), so I'm swapping on one of them regularly. : P
Oh, the Amazon review I wrote for it back then https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2GYGKFQZWDH3M/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B089KW3Y1R notes that the touchpad has no middle button, and its motion felt pretty clunky compared to the one on my previous laptop. That was before I realized laptop keyboards are ergonomically horrible and switched to a separate keyboard. And I noted that the HDMI and LAN/Ethernet ports are in back, so those cables will stick straight out back there, requiring additional space behind the laptop. |
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