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This is actually a pretty good price. The 4080 version from a few years back had an MSRP of $2199 and that had a 1tb drive (though tbf, it was on sale at times as low as $1900). You get a 5080 vs 4080, better cpu, bigger HD and an OLED panel for $250. Given the state of pc parts, memory etc...this is actually a bargain relatively speaking.
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This is actually a pretty good price. The 4080 version from a few years back had an MSRP of $2199 and that had a 1tb drive (though tbf, it was on sale at times as low as $1900). You get a 5080 vs 4080, better cpu, bigger HD and an OLED panel for $250. Given the state of pc parts, memory etc...this is actually a bargain relatively speaking.
The lowest price I've seen this model on for months; I think it's a reasonable price these days. The exact model with the RTX 5090 model is also available for an extra $600, not worth it unless you want the 24 GB VRAM for professional apps / AI models.
How does this compare to the Alienware laptops? I'm concerned about reliability, especially by buying it through B&H
I bought the 5090 version of this laptop a few months ago and it has been flawless. I have a Alienware desktop and at least twice a week I get BSOD. Never changed anything, has all of the updates. The desktop is still a beast but yea I have to deal with that.
This is probably the cheapest we will see this laptop for the foreseeable future. The last best price was a hair over $2,000 USD but that model had half the storage capacity (1 TB).
This is an excellent gaming laptop with an absolutely gorgeous display! I had taken advantage of Best Buy's member return policy to trial this exact model for 60 days while living away from home. I loved it and tried to find a justification not to return it, but in reality I had no use for it once back home with my RTX 5080 equipped desktop machine. After I returned it came the ~$2K deal for the 1 TB model and I was still tempted to get it again.
I had never owned a gaming laptop, but now feel comfortable saying they earn their price tag when equipped like this one (RAM and storage prices excluded). Every time I opened the lid, I was truly impressed by the display. It is so bright, colorful, and silky smooth. I am pretty critical of displays and have been following and using OLED displays since LG C7 (2017). I think a lot of people may overlook the fact that this has a DisplayHDR True Black 1000 display, and is one of the main reasons I pulled the trigger on it. Even current top end OLED desktop monitors are only rated, at best, DisplayHDR True Black 500 - which means half as much peak brightness and roughly half typical screen brightness as well. This laptop will give you a proper HDR experience, even in a somewhat bright room. The brightness helps mitigate the downsides of a glossy screen coating (namely, reflections/glare), but gives you all of the benefits. In a dark room, an SDR image with the display at full brightness is positively eye-searing.
I was able to play Resident Evil: Requiem when it first released with near max settings, Path Tracing (!), DLSS Balanced and 2x frame gen for what I felt was a great balance of quality and performance. The added input lag of frame gen wasn't an issue for a game like this and the path traced lighting was crazy good; the image quality only to be amplified by this display.
The only negatives I can think of during my time with it: This laptop is married to its sizeable power brick, but that is no different for any true gaming laptop. The NVIDIA technology that switches between the processor GPU and dedicated GPU (Optimus, I think) when opening and closing games does cause what presents as a momentary system lockup, but is expected behavior. I mitigated this by changing a setting in the NVIDIA app so that it runs off of the dedicated GPU at all times. And finally, two minor gripes: Side I/O as opposed to rear I/O on previous generations of this laptop and the top cover finish is a fingerprint magnet.
All in all, highly recommended! If anyone is on the fence, I'd be happy to answer any questions to the best of my knowledge. 🙂 Cheers!
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This is probably the cheapest we will see this laptop for the foreseeable future. The last best price was a hair over $2,000 USD but that model had half the storage capacity (1 TB).
This is an excellent gaming laptop with an absolutely gorgeous display! I had taken advantage of Best Buy's member return policy to trial this exact model for 60 days while living away from home. I loved it and tried to find a justification not to return it, but in reality I had no use for it once back home with my RTX 5080 equipped desktop machine. After I returned it came the ~$2K deal for the 1 TB model and I was still tempted to get it again.
I had never owned a gaming laptop, but now feel comfortable saying they earn their price tag when equipped like this one (RAM and storage prices excluded). Every time I opened the lid, I was truly impressed by the display. It is so bright, colorful, and silky smooth. I am pretty critical of displays and have been following and using OLED displays since LG C7 (2017). I think a lot of people may overlook the fact that this has a DisplayHDR True Black 1000 display, and is one of the main reasons I pulled the trigger on it. Even current top end OLED desktop monitors are only rated, at best, DisplayHDR True Black 500 - which means half as much peak brightness and roughly half typical screen brightness as well. This laptop will give you a proper HDR experience, even in a somewhat bright room. The brightness helps mitigate the downsides of a glossy screen coating (namely, reflections/glare), but gives you all of the benefits. In a dark room, an SDR image with the display at full brightness is positively eye-searing.
I was able to play Resident Evil: Requiem when it first released with near max settings, Path Tracing (!), DLSS Balanced and 2x frame gen for what I felt was a great balance of quality and performance. The added input lag of frame gen wasn't an issue for a game like this and the path traced lighting was crazy good; the image quality only to be amplified by this display.
The only negatives I can think of during my time with it: This laptop is married to its sizeable power brick, but that is no different for any true gaming laptop. The NVIDIA technology that switches between the processor GPU and dedicated GPU (Optimus, I think) when opening and closing games does cause what presents as a momentary system lockup, but is expected behavior. I mitigated this by changing a setting in the NVIDIA app so that it runs off of the dedicated GPU at all times. And finally, a minor gripe: Side I/O as opposed to rear I/O on previous generations of this laptop.
All in all, highly recommended! If anyone is on the fence, I'd be happy to answer any questions to the best of my knowledge. 🙂 Cheers!
I just bought the computer thanks to your reply. Thank you!
The issue with all gaming laptops is the powerbrick right? So you can't use say a 130W dell charger on it even if you are using this laptop for web browsing only? Would an anker 737 powerbank even work with it if it draws max 90w?
If you are just web browsing or watching video on youtube, how long is the battery? If you turn off the rtx 5080, it uses the intel xe graphics? But by default, it uses the intel xe graphics until it needs to use the 5080?
The issue with all gaming laptops is the powerbrick right? So you can't use say a 130W dell charger on it even if you are using this laptop for web browsing only? Would an anker 737 powerbank even work with it if it draws max 90w?
If you are just web browsing or watching video on youtube, how long is the battery? If you turn off the rtx 5080, it uses the intel xe graphics? But by default, it uses the intel xe graphics until it needs to use the 5080?
The specs have a USB-C ports supporting PD 95-100W meaning you can use any standard charger USB-C 100W charger. That will work just fine for pretty much anything beside heavy task (gaming, video rendering, code compiling).
For the power bank question, the 90W will still charge as long as you are not doing anything that draws more than that but it will be slower and windows will complain. This is ok for emergency (what power banks are designed for) but not ideal in the long term because it will cause battery wear over time vs a proper charger that will fully charge and then pass-through the power.
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The issue with all gaming laptops is the powerbrick right? So you can't use say a 130W dell charger on it even if you are using this laptop for web browsing only? Would an anker 737 powerbank even work with it if it draws max 90w?If you are just web browsing or watching video on youtube, how long is the battery? If you turn off the rtx 5080, it uses the intel xe graphics? But by default, it uses the intel xe graphics until it needs to use the 5080?
Hi! The A/C adapter that comes with this is rated at 400W to support the full power draw while under load (gaming). And it uses a Lenovo-type rectangular connector. A lower wattage Lenovo power brick should charge the battery, albeit at a slower rate. Even during light usage the battery may still drain connected this way. You will probably get a warning on boot to connect the proper A/C adapter and/or a warning in Windows. There's a chance it may not charge at all. See the comment above if you're interested in charging over USB-C.
From my limited experience with it purely on battery and using the dedicated GPU, I believe the Windows battery life estimate was just over an hour with very light use (web browsing). You should get a little more on the integrated GPU (Intel Xe) but honestly I wouldn't bet on anything over 2 hours. Screen brightness will significantly impact this as well.
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This is an excellent gaming laptop with an absolutely gorgeous display! I had taken advantage of Best Buy's member return policy to trial this exact model for 60 days while living away from home. I loved it and tried to find a justification not to return it, but in reality I had no use for it once back home with my RTX 5080 equipped desktop machine. After I returned it came the ~$2K deal for the 1 TB model and I was still tempted to get it again.
I had never owned a gaming laptop, but now feel comfortable saying they earn their price tag when equipped like this one (RAM and storage prices excluded). Every time I opened the lid, I was truly impressed by the display. It is so bright, colorful, and silky smooth. I am pretty critical of displays and have been following and using OLED displays since LG C7 (2017). I think a lot of people may overlook the fact that this has a DisplayHDR True Black 1000 display, and is one of the main reasons I pulled the trigger on it. Even current top end OLED desktop monitors are only rated, at best, DisplayHDR True Black 500 - which means half as much peak brightness and roughly half typical screen brightness as well. This laptop will give you a proper HDR experience, even in a somewhat bright room. The brightness helps mitigate the downsides of a glossy screen coating (namely, reflections/glare), but gives you all of the benefits. In a dark room, an SDR image with the display at full brightness is positively eye-searing.
I was able to play Resident Evil: Requiem when it first released with near max settings, Path Tracing (!), DLSS Balanced and 2x frame gen for what I felt was a great balance of quality and performance. The added input lag of frame gen wasn't an issue for a game like this and the path traced lighting was crazy good; the image quality only to be amplified by this display.
The only negatives I can think of during my time with it: This laptop is married to its sizeable power brick, but that is no different for any true gaming laptop. The NVIDIA technology that switches between the processor GPU and dedicated GPU (Optimus, I think) when opening and closing games does cause what presents as a momentary system lockup, but is expected behavior. I mitigated this by changing a setting in the NVIDIA app so that it runs off of the dedicated GPU at all times. And finally, two minor gripes: Side I/O as opposed to rear I/O on previous generations of this laptop and the top cover finish is a fingerprint magnet.
All in all, highly recommended! If anyone is on the fence, I'd be happy to answer any questions to the best of my knowledge. 🙂 Cheers!
This is an excellent gaming laptop with an absolutely gorgeous display! I had taken advantage of Best Buy's member return policy to trial this exact model for 60 days while living away from home. I loved it and tried to find a justification not to return it, but in reality I had no use for it once back home with my RTX 5080 equipped desktop machine. After I returned it came the ~$2K deal for the 1 TB model and I was still tempted to get it again.
I had never owned a gaming laptop, but now feel comfortable saying they earn their price tag when equipped like this one (RAM and storage prices excluded). Every time I opened the lid, I was truly impressed by the display. It is so bright, colorful, and silky smooth. I am pretty critical of displays and have been following and using OLED displays since LG C7 (2017). I think a lot of people may overlook the fact that this has a DisplayHDR True Black 1000 display, and is one of the main reasons I pulled the trigger on it. Even current top end OLED desktop monitors are only rated, at best, DisplayHDR True Black 500 - which means half as much peak brightness and roughly half typical screen brightness as well. This laptop will give you a proper HDR experience, even in a somewhat bright room. The brightness helps mitigate the downsides of a glossy screen coating (namely, reflections/glare), but gives you all of the benefits. In a dark room, an SDR image with the display at full brightness is positively eye-searing.
I was able to play Resident Evil: Requiem when it first released with near max settings, Path Tracing (!), DLSS Balanced and 2x frame gen for what I felt was a great balance of quality and performance. The added input lag of frame gen wasn't an issue for a game like this and the path traced lighting was crazy good; the image quality only to be amplified by this display.
The only negatives I can think of during my time with it: This laptop is married to its sizeable power brick, but that is no different for any true gaming laptop. The NVIDIA technology that switches between the processor GPU and dedicated GPU (Optimus, I think) when opening and closing games does cause what presents as a momentary system lockup, but is expected behavior. I mitigated this by changing a setting in the NVIDIA app so that it runs off of the dedicated GPU at all times. And finally, a minor gripe: Side I/O as opposed to rear I/O on previous generations of this laptop.
All in all, highly recommended! If anyone is on the fence, I'd be happy to answer any questions to the best of my knowledge. 🙂 Cheers!
If you are just web browsing or watching video on youtube, how long is the battery? If you turn off the rtx 5080, it uses the intel xe graphics? But by default, it uses the intel xe graphics until it needs to use the 5080?
If you are just web browsing or watching video on youtube, how long is the battery? If you turn off the rtx 5080, it uses the intel xe graphics? But by default, it uses the intel xe graphics until it needs to use the 5080?
For the power bank question, the 90W will still charge as long as you are not doing anything that draws more than that but it will be slower and windows will complain. This is ok for emergency (what power banks are designed for) but not ideal in the long term because it will cause battery wear over time vs a proper charger that will fully charge and then pass-through the power.
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From my limited experience with it purely on battery and using the dedicated GPU, I believe the Windows battery life estimate was just over an hour with very light use (web browsing). You should get a little more on the integrated GPU (Intel Xe) but honestly I wouldn't bet on anything over 2 hours. Screen brightness will significantly impact this as well.
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