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Hi! I wanted to buy a budget gaming laptop at around ~800 USD (equivalent). Currently checking out a gigabyte 3060/11400@ 850$. Is this priced right? Shoukd I look for better deals? Also, what about gigabyte laptops, are they reliable? Should I buy it? What brands should I look for, if not?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Spend $350 on a steam deck and $120 to upgrade it to 1 TB storage.

Only negative is if you're into multi-player fps games like fortnite and such. Anti cheat software a lot of them use aren't Linux compatible. You can install windows, but that's a pretty meh experience.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Can you use a steam deck like a laptop? Can you do PC stuff with it like web browsing, email, etc?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To have a better ex0erience than simply using your cell phone you can plug the deck into a dock and use an external screen and mouse and keyboard.

The steam deck is a computer with 16 gigs ram and an AMD APU. Flat out. It comes with a custom Linux distro set up to play games, but you can install any OS (or multiple OS') and use it any way you could use any other PC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jfc. How.big and beefy is your phone?!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Note 20 Ultra....

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