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I've got a 4800hs 8-core laptop that should be showing up on my doorstep later today. My kid is doing some heavy video/graphics work in Adobe in her undergraduate program, and going to try this as a potential desktop/workstation replacement since she is still a bit of a nomad as a student. Her current laptop just can't handle the work without trying to cook itself - but will have some apples to apples rendering comparisons based on her homework soon.

The crazy thing is the cost.. about $1000 for a base unit. Will be doing some comparisons to my other desktop threadrippers just to see where it stacks up.

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For the performance and battery life, $1000 is a pretty good price.

I think it has a 4800H cpu (45W) and not the more expensive 4800HS cpu (35W). Apparently the S is short for slim, source: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-hs-design-standard-gam...

Still, around 10 hours of battery life for casual use is great.

Nice - assuming it has USB-C? The external USB-C SSDs are great for source media.

I believe so.

https://www.asus.com/us/Laptops/ASUS-TUF-Gaming-A15

Is what we have on route. No SD slot... but most of the other ports one might need.

Yeah it does. 1TB will last a while but depending on what she’s working on she could easily have 100GB of source material per project.

SD Card slot,for transferring files from her camera. It does have room for an extra m.2 drive. I've not opened the back yet... those parts/packages have not shown up yet.

Can you recommend a NUC-like computer?

Something easy to carry around, to LAN, ideally with PCIe slots or an NVIDIA GPU

Mini-ATX FF too big? If not, something like this: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/spety/saved/#view=QR7ZZL

(disclaimer, double check my research especially clearances for the cooler if you move forward :))

Intel is reportedly going back to their old ways and incentivizing nuc vendors to either delay or cancel AMD versions.

https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1249819270537715719?s=...

Mind sharing the brand/model?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B086K3NFQQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

Is what we picked up. First time I've ordered a laptop without actually messing with it first. This likely will be used as more of a workstation/desktop replacement. Looking forward.

Package just showed up! Unboxing now.

Slightly off topic, but with the G14, it was made clear that the RTX 2060 is the 60W max-Q version. Do you know if this Asus TUF RTX 2060 is the full 90W version? (Well, it sounds like you're getting the 1660 Ti, but the same question applies, since they also sell that in both 60W Max-Q and full 80W versions.)

ETA: This seems to hint it is the 90W version https://www.ultrabookreview.com/36108-asus-tuf-gaming-fa506i...

I'd love to see a comparison between this and a $3000 Macbook Pro.

Plus, look at all those ports that Apple will never give you!

Thanks for the link, this might be my new laptop.

Passmark results on it. https://i.imgur.com/RkdNpC5.png https://i.imgur.com/i8WLsFV.png

CPU shows 20,349. The only other Windows box I have is an old first gen threadripper 1950x, which scores around 29,373.

https://i.imgur.com/F1D5Cjw.png

She needs to finish downloading the Creative Cloud kit before I see how it stacks up to some older i9 macs.

It's very certainly faster by a healthy margin, with slightly worse build quality and a worse screen.

I kept a bookmark just to come back to this thread later. Would you mind sharing your experience so far?

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