Gaming laptop for PT Ultimate

[Media Man]

I have been looking around for a new laptop to replace my dead one for while, and now the need is critical as I have a trip coming up.

I've noticed that some of the Windows "gaming" computers by some of the major manufactures such as Lenovo, Dell and Asus offer high end processors, 1TB SSD drives and 32 GB ram at a better price than their "workstations" or high powered business machines.

I saw a Lenovo "Legion" with 14 Gen i9, 32GB ram and 1TB SSD drive for $500-$1000 less than their "workstation". Might have to ante up for Win Pro instead of Win Home, but still a decent price.

Not sure what the difference is. Maybe build quality, but how bad could it be?

Any thoughts?

Media Man

[Darryl Ramm]

How bad could things be? With Intel CPU powered computers right now? Very very f****** bad.

I would be very careful about buying any system at the moment with processors from Intel. And their behavior recently over their faulty processors would have me switching to AMD even more so than previous other compelling reasons. Even though AMD has their own current product reliability issues, they are dealing with them much more professionally that Intel.

Intel has major problems with their Raptor Lake (13th Gen) and Raptor Lake Refresh (14th Gen) Desktop CPUs corrosion and "elevated voltage" issues. The details are still evolving, while it may or may not effect mobile processors. There are claims and denials on both sides there, and frankly at the moment I would not trust anything Intel said that was not gone over by industry experts with access to hard data/info. Raptor Lake/Refresh hopefully means that Xeon CPUs are supposedly not involved, but again I'd wait and find out more in all cases.

It looks like Intel is try to just ship microcode fixes and are trying to deny warranty claims for any already permanently harmed CPUs cause by their problems. There will be a parade of lawsuits over this. It's potentially the largest product issue Intel has ever faced. I expected a lot more of any organization run by Patrick Gelsinger. But he has failed. And at the same time Intel announced poor financial results and more layoffs.

Some great coverage on this from Gamer's Nexus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVdmK1UGzGs and many other sites, but get your info from decent informed folks, there are so many idiots out there in PC/hobbiest/gamer social-media/media land.

This is breaking news, information and details will likely change. I sure would hold off any Intel purchases until things were clearer.

And yes Avid tries to weasel at times with the "we don't support AMD" claims. I'm not sure how it happens but one day the need to be customer focused might actually get through to all Avid management.

[Media Man]

I've heard about the Intel issuess, and yes, they were about the desktop processors. I've also heard they are not doing a recall.

Media Man