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ChiroVette /r/GamingLaptop
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1970-01-19 20:44:50.293 +0000 UTC

Dude, I think it's a terrible deal, to be honest. Are you in the US? I can't speak for prices abroad, but Amazon has the various Asus ROG Strix models at that very same price range only with a really nice laptop gaming GPU. The 1650 is a really budget card, and if I was in the market for one, I wouldn't pay any more than $1,000.00 USD for it, and even then...

I actually purchased [this one] Sunday, but decided to cancel the order because I managed to at least temporarily resurrect my old gaming laptop, and I want to wait and see if I can run it into the ground and hopefully score something at a deep discount on Black Friday. This is the exact model I ordered and cancelled. Actually a second reason I cancelled it is because Amazon has it listed at $1,799.99, but the main page seller (probably Amazon itself) shows it temporarily out of stock. I actually had purchased it at $2,050.00 from that same page, alternate seller, before cancelling it. I kind of felt a little icky paying $250.00 USD more, plus tax, of course, lol, just because I needed it fast. Or thought I did. Notice the specs on the link I gave you? You get a 3070 instead of the very weak 3050. You also get 17.3 inch screen, which is an IPS 300 Hz instead of 140 Hz. It also comes with a nice 1 TB SSD and a Ryzen 9 not a 7.

My suggestion is wait a few weeks if you can, because it looks like the $1,799.99 price will be back on Amazon in a few weeks. If you need one now, you can get a much better laptop than you listed at a lower price. But more important than the price is that for somewhere around the price you listed above, you get a far superior machine. Even if you buy it right now from an alternate seller. Looks like you can snag it for $1,950.00 but I am not sure if that seller is close enough to you geographically to have to charge sales tax. Remember at that price range, NO SALES TAX can save you around $200.00 even if the sticker price is a little higher.

If you step down to the 3060, which is still way better than the 3050, you can save a few bucks more, but honestly, not that much. It really seems to me that if you want a 2021 model (talking Asus here, not other brands) that you don't really save a lot going from the 3070 to the 3060. So the 3070, at least for Asus on Amazon gives you the most bang for your buck.

ChiroVette /r/GamingLaptop
1 point
1970-01-19 20:36:38.702 +0000 UTC

Okay so another question about this: I think I am going to stick with a lappy with a 3070 GPU. Seems like the extra $300.00 to $400.00 for the jump up from the 3060 will be worth it in the long run. My question is, I read about sales on these machines in another thread. A few such sales seem to have passed by already, I think early in July. But I was wondering if anyone knows if any sales are coming in the next 2-3 weeks or so? I won't wait until Black Friday, as that is over 3 months away.

If not, I will have to bite the bullet and buy sooner. I am leaning toward a model like this one:

Asus ROG 17 Inch

But this is just one I am looking at. It prices out at $1,799.00, which is actually quite reasonable for a 3070 based unit. But here are some concerns: It is a Ryzen CPU. Do I really care? I always have had Intel, but if Ryzen is good, that's fine. I also think I will look for the same or similar model, but with 32GB RAM instead of the 16GB in this one. Also, I would probably want to upgrade the 512GB SSD to a 1 TB unit, and later on I can always put in a mass storage drive later on. I assume that the price for the bigger SSD and more RAM will add about $300 or $400.00 to the price, which is fine.

Edit: Actually, I misread the Amazon page. The lappy I linked to above has the 1TB SSD. That is starting to look like a great price, actually.