Poll-Yes or No- Buying Laptops with High Performance CPU's

To me, polls like thse are pointless. In part, that is because most regular participants of this forum are very experienced users with a good understanding of pcs, and this sort of person will be more choosy.

Out there, the main criterion of Joe Public will simply be price and budget. This means the majority will buy low end to medium end off the shelf laptops, with main selection criteria beiing drive storage and screen resolution. Only a tiny fraction will gravitate toward high end lsptops. The shops sort of categorise laptops with advertising terms like "suitable for gaming" to push more expensive models.

In the end, most people set a budget and get the best laptop that meets there meed.

I recently bought a new laptop within my budget and it is much faate rhan old laptop. On benchmarks it comes in at lower end of high end laptops. To get anything more powerful (which I do not really need), I would double my costs for very little gain, as most of time I would not really use the extra power i.e. I rarely do high end computing or play cpu/gpu intensive games.

In the end, it is like buying a car. I always had a medium to large sallon car with at least 2litrevengine aa I travelled around 30,000 miles yearly (motorway). So a Ford Sierra waa the sort of car - moderately powerful at a medium price range. I never paid for high end cars e.g. BMWs aa out of my price bracket.


However, now I do less than 6,000 miles per year on local town traffic, so a small runaround with a much smaller engine e.g. 1.2 litre suffices. My main criterion is that the run around can accelerate fairly well.

Laptops are basically the same - define your budget, and get best you can.

glasskuter said:

It's Christmastime and Windows 11 time. I've had quite a few people ask me for suggestions on what laptop they should buy. Buyer are sucked in with thoughts of more speed, more cores, more threads, etc, etc. As we see here on this forum, heat issues are becoming more and more prevalent as CPU's have become faster. When you add that in with the fact that builds these days seem to have dropped in quality, in terms of longevity alone I've always felt it is a bad idea to pay big bucks for laptops with high performance CPUs since there's not much a user can do to control the heat inside the case. Since many of you know much more about such things than I do, what do you think? I value your opinion.

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That depends entirely upon what you want to use the laptop for. If I just wanted to surf the net, do email, and watch movies, then why get a super powerful laptop? But, I want to play my graphics intensive games that I play on my desktop computer while camping. So the laptop I purchased last week is an MSI GE76 Raider 11UG-468. It has in i7-11800H CPU, Nvidia RTX 3070 GPU (8 GB video memory), 32 GB RAM and runs my games better than my desktop computer. One secret to avoid overheating is always to have the laptop sitting on a solid surface such as table or laptop desk.