Looking for a gaming laptop under $1400 with at least a 4060. Best I have found in this price bracket so far are:
Any other contenders out there?
TIA
Also Geforce Now is a good setup these days for ~$20/month if you have a decent internet connection
How good does your internet connection need to be? Is it likely to get a lot of lag?
Depending on signal strength, mobile hotspots (I'm on Telstra) can be a little too high latency even when down and upstream are fast, which can suck. But any wired connection I've tried has been rock solid. Helps to have gigabit fibre at the hosting PC's location :D I've tried the laptop connecting via Moonlight on various Internet connections, and only really have the issue on a hotspot, even worse when signal is bad. I just don't bother then. But home WiFi off gigabit fibre to home is obviously really good. The Moonlight app has a throughput slider and only really recommends 31mbps for 1080p 144hz for example. 1440p 144hz jacks it up to 62mbps, 4K 60 is only 80mbps so if you can attain 100mbps at low latency, there's a lot of headroom to try different settings. I wouldn't say it's not discernible from sitting at the machine itself. It's impressively good, but it's kind of like watching and controlling an interactive high quality YouTube video of a game running somewhere else.
I don't know much about laptops but there's a 20% off Dell deal for the next 2 days:
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/872911
you might be able to grab something like this, which would come down to around the $1,400 mark
https://www.dell.com/en-au/shop/gaming-and-games/g15-gaming-…
Thanks for all the suggestions. I bought the Acer Nitro… and it was DOA. So HN exchanged it for another which was also DOA! Full refund received and looking at options.
I've heard about Acer having bad build qualities but never imagined it's this bad.
Have u decided on what ur getting?
how are you even getting your 4060 to perform in those machines, the TDP of MSI is 65 watts whereas you need 90watts to run 4060. cant find info on the Acer but based on other variants looks like 80watts. you are better off getting a laptop with 4050 and save some money cause the models above will not deliver the right performance. All you are buying is paper spec
If you've already got a fully sick gaming PC, I'd strongly recommend you configure Sunshine on it, and stream your games (even via Tailscale VPN or similar over the Internet) to a whatever laptop. I'd say it should at minimum have n-key rollover, as my older laptop can barely press three keys at once, which makes Helldivers Stratagem call-ins infuriating :D But yeah, check it out. Leverage the power of an existing PC and stream those games to Moonlight yourself! It takes a little bit of setting up, but has gone really well in my use case.
https://www.reddit.com/r/logitechgcloud/comments/1eicp1u/exc…
This basically gives me an RTX 4070 SUPER equipped machine-level performance accessible from any laptop with a fraction of the laptop battery consumption.