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?

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • guyrocket@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

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

      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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.