17 inch and above laptops ONLY - Bigger IS Better

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Mark Robinson BussyLiquor

Mark Robinson BussyLiquor

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I've been coveting 17-inch MacBooks from 2010 and 2011. You can get them with up to 16 GB of RAM and a quad-core i7. Honestly, it would probably perform just as well as a 2019 MacBook with less overheating. The reason I'm looking at Intel MacBooks is I want to BootCamp into Windows and play Pal World. I also want the giant screen at a cheaper price. Try getting your hands on a 16-inch M-series MacBook. You'll be shelling out $1000 even for a used M1 Pro at that 16-inch size point. And who the fuck is paying for 16 inches in this economy??? 17 or more or it ain't fucking worth it. Anyway, should I buy this MacBook? The answer is No. Look at that touchpad ("trackpad," to use Apple's gay language). It's diminutive and shrunken: a touchpad for ants.

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Please post your giant, fat, succulent laptops ... whether they run Windows, Mac, Linux, or TempleOS. Thank you!
 
Asus Zenbook S 16 is 0.4" / 1cm thick, has a yuge touchpad, and the Ryzen outperforms the M3 Macbook Air (not Pro, which is like twice as thick), while lasting 12 hours.

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I bought some flavor of Acer Aspire years ago for $650 open box. 17", full keyboard, 7th gen intel with nVidia graphics. No disassembly required for SSD and ram upgrade. Wide range of connectors from VGA to USB-C.
 
Go big or go home boys, cause we're getting the Acer Predator 21x! A 21-inch screen and weighing over 19 pounds!

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A real gamer turns his room into a jet-powered oven to play the latest and greatest games like Solitare or Minesweeper!
 
Willie B. Hardigan dijo:
Go big or go home boys, cause we're getting the Acer Predator 21x! A 21-inch screen and weighing over 19 pounds!

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A real gamer turns his room into a jet-powered oven to play the latest and greatest games like Solitare or Minesweeper!
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Apparently that thing has a battery, which honestly surprises me. I would not keep a (potentially explosive) battery housed in a device so expensive, especially with the power it draws.
 
I used to love 17in laptops, but with the death of the bezel and after using a MBA 13in for a few years, I'm back to 15.6 as the sweet spot for me now. I would rather have a higher resolution (my current laptop is 15.6/2160p), but I'm an idiot who strains their eyes by making text as small as possible while still being readable.
 
As an owner of an Acer helios 18, I could never go back to smaller ones.

Cue complaints from soyboys with limp wrists/ noodle arms complaining about weight.
 
Mark Robinson BussyLiquor dijo:
The reason I'm looking at Intel MacBooks is I want to BootCamp into Windows and play Pal World.
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Those things don't come with good GPUs by today's standards, which means your FPS in Palworld is going to be abysmal.
If you get the 2010 MacBook Pro, it will come with a NVIDIA GeForce 330M. This GPU is 15 times worse than the GTX 1060: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gt-330m.c1505

And if you get the 2011 edition, the GPU is a AMD Radeon HD 6770M. This GPU is only about 8 times worse than the GTX 1060: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-hd-6770m.c323

Without a decent GPU, your framerate in Palworld (and other games made in Unreal Engine) is going to be absolutely abysmal. I don't recommend going down that route at all.
 
Squishie PP dijo:
Those things don't come with good GPUs by today's standards, which means your FPS in Palworld is going to be abysmal.
If you get the 2010 MacBook Pro, it will come with a NVIDIA GeForce 330M. This GPU is 15 times worse than the GTX 1060: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gt-330m.c1505

And if you get the 2011 edition, the GPU is a AMD Radeon HD 6770M. This GPU is only about 8 times worse than the GTX 1060: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-hd-6770m.c323

Without a decent GPU, your framerate in Palworld (and other games made in Unreal Engine) is going to be absolutely abysmal. I don't recommend going down that route at all.
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Yeah, instead I got a $300 gaming PC with an RTX 2060 and 4-core Xeon. The desktop 2060 is only 20% less powerful than the laptop 4070 I used to have. (I sold off that laptop because it had a Core 9 185h and ran scaldingly hot.) My FPS is locked at 75 since my monitor is 75 Hz 1080p. It performs really, really well! I'm sure it's missing some bells and whistles but the experience is honesty just as good on this desktop as it was on that more powerful laptop.
 
I used to buy 2nd hand Elite and Z books from a friend who works at refreshing enterprise hardware. He gets them at a special price and sells them to me for very cheap. Even though they have older specs by the time I get them, they still hold up quite well; the last 17" one I bough from him has a 900p resolution but still looks fantastic and performs perfectly to this day.

I also bought from him a more capable 14" laptop (i7 6th vs i7 10th), but it's hard to go back to that one after experiencing the goodness of a bigger display.
 
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