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Did a similar thing about 1.5 years ago. Bought a Lenovo Legion 15 with 4800H Ryzen and 32 GB RAM. Upgraded the drives to 1 TB NVMe and 4 TB SATA SSD. It's super fast, discreet graphics, replaceable storage and still cost less than half of a similarity configed Macbook Pro.

Also a happy Legion user, although the power brick is obscene.

I'm super happy with it. The perf are great.

2 big drawbacks: the plastic is super fragile and you will need an external microphone (or your coworkers will complain about fan noises)

Have you tried this for fan noise?: https://github.com/TurboGraphxBeige/isw

I bought an HP Victus, mostly because I came across a great deal and it has GeForce RTX 3070 graphics.

I'm running Pop! OS linux and it worked out of the box, no special setup necessary. So far I'm happy with it and starting to ask myself why I didn't do this earlier. :)