TL;DR: We are paying about 20% extra than China, to get a much worse panel (2k165hz 100%DCI P3 vs 1080p144hz 62.5%srgb), panels of this kind of specs are only found in dirt cheap gaming laptops like those 1.2k nitro 5 deals-and this machine cost 2.7 grand.
Originally posted as description for a deal but I don't find it too much a deal the more I looked at it, but feel more like its being insulting to Australian consumers even at this discounted price. Had since then asked the mods to remove the deal posting, but still wanted to put this down here to raise some awareness, do be warned my formatting is all over the place so read at your own discretion
The first of the Rzen 6000 series to land in Australia, a good upgrade over the last year's TUF, But here's why you shouldn't buy it…or not, your money your choice.
Originally, I was going to shill for this year's TUF at first when I saw the deal, but half way through writing this I realised a major issue with this laptop, let's go through the good parts about the TUF dash first:
6800h, very power efficient chip and a even bigger step up compared to last year. Basically in any sub 60w workload it will be better than the 12th gen with quite a few more cores. And obviously far better battery life, not as good as m1 chips, that's kinda unavoidable since well its x86 vs ARM. But should last you a whole workday no problem
full powered 140w 3070, with mux switch to boot, so yes, unlike last year's sad piece of machine that is the TUF, this years TUF is definitely a very good gaming machine
And here's where the good stuff ends, now lets talk about the price.
As you might know, we kinda pay a lot for digital electronics here in Australia-not just compared to say China or other developing countries, but NA and EU as well. Now i have ranted a few times about legion's price difference before, but this year's TUF have it worse: In China, the 3070/6800h model costs 2.2k aud, the Australian RRP across retailers seemed to be $2699.
That's not too bad, you might say, its only 500 dollaroos-legion had a big price difference vs China as well, we do have to pay the 10% GST, and you said yourself just before that ANZ pricing is generally more expensive, so how come the hate?
Here comes the elephant in the room, in China, they get a top of the line, 2k WQHD 165hz panel with 100% DCI-P3 screen, in comparison to the legion panels, this trade better colour coverage but loses out on HDR and a bit of extra screen space.
Us? Well we get a fabulous 1080p, 144hz, 62.5% sRGB panel-in China this is only used on the 3050/50ti models.
Yep you heard that right, you would hesitate buying a gaming laptop with kind of colour coverage for 1.5k, let alone a 2.5k one. So yeah, had this being the 2k panel, this would be a good deal, had this been the 300hz 100% srgb panel, this would still be an okay deal. Now? its a trash deal,
But hey at least its on launch discount or sth and its is available for immediate shipping so that's something I guess.
What a convoluted hard to red post due to how it is put together. Gave up at second horizontal line.