You Don t Need to Spend on a Pricey Gaming Laptop Wirecutter
You Don’t Need to Spend on a Pricey Gaming Laptop Wirecutter
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Advice, staff picks, mythbusting, and more. Let us help you.Save of this post was sent to our weekly newsletter mailing list. If you’d like to receive this in your inbox, subscribe . I admit that I know nothing about gaming, which is why I’m glad we’ve got our resident gaming enthusiasts, editor Thorin Klosowski and senior staff writer Kimber Streams, to get advice from. Kimber and Thorin have both been busy testing gaming laptops this fall, and after a new round of research and testing, we determined that the thin and light with RTX 2060 graphics card will be our pick for the overall . But Kimber says it’s not necessary to spend $2,000 to get the performance you need. For the first time, at around $1,200 can play most new games just fine. High-end laptops with RTX 2070 or RTX 2080 graphics still don’t offer enough performance benefits that are worth the hefty premiums. So we recommend the as our new cheap top pick. Sometimes the footnotes are my favorite part of a guide. Here’s a : “Prolonged exposure to warm laptops can cause —also called Toasted Skin Syndrome or Granny’s Tartan—a blotchy, chronic skin condition that is in rare cases associated with some cancers. We do not recommend using any gaming laptop on your lap for long periods of time, as the undersides of all the laptops we tested regularly measured way over 43 °C (109 °F), the threshold for EAI, during even short gaming sessions.”Here s the latest on new upcoming and updated guides
If you’re going to a dinner party, bring a present for the host. includes picks from staff and recommendations from expert Danny Seo, editor-in-chief of .We have new picks in our . After a recent round of tests, the is our new top pick, and the is our new upgrade pick.New this week
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