Programming on a gaming laptop

Here's what I look for when programming on a gaming laptop.
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[@topticktom]

I bring the gaming laptop to Meetings without a charger 🔌 , just to be sure, every meeting is going to end early!

[@AZisk]

Yes! I like it

[@Aeonikst8]

😂

[@GGthestoryteller]

Please carry a charger, It's light weight and weighs only 2kgs 😂

[@gabrielbeckett5240]

@@GGthestoryteller source-his boss 😂

[@emptybottle1200]

😂😂

[@reddevilv7]

Best video. You covered many topics in one video and answered many questions I had. 👏🏻

[@zoovy7252]

the skit at the intro was gold 🤣keep it up

[@1987RX7TII]

I watched this video because I’m being considered for a dev position at a local startup and they provide Alienware X17 gaming laptops for all their devs and I thought it was a bit of an odd overkill but I’m not complaining. Was just interested to see what you had to say here and it all makes sense. I like my M1 MBP but I think coding in a Windows machine that costs just as much will be interesting.

[@nykz8043]

love your videos. still using a mb pro early 2015. good enough for university programming and cloud gaming :D upgraded it with a new 1TB ssd and new heat paste. I would love to have a m1..but my old macbook don’t stop working :D

[@adamjoyce1521]

This is the first article of its kind I've come across and I find it super interesting. I've been talking about this for a while with my colleagues and I use a gaming laptop over a 'professional' or 'work' laptop for two basic reasons. They're cheaper wth better specs where I need them. For example I use an Asus Tuf 2021 model. It has a great screen, full keyboard with numpad, USB-C with display out for my dock, Ryzen 5900h, 3060 GPU, 1TB HD and excellent battery life. A comparable professional laptop (e.g. an HP Elitebook G8) costs me another 1K with only one advantage, that being chargeable by the USB-C display port. This makes using a dock a little easier. An HP Elitebook is also lighter but... whatever. This may be specific to market prices in New Zealand but it's a no brainer for me. Of course, the 3060 GPU means I can play games as well. But we're all getting too old for that so...

[@MissyMalaprop]

show my age... but when I was very little I started learning coding concepts using BASIC on a TRS-80 Coco that was only like a year old... saved what I wrote by writing it to cassette tapes... how far we've come.

[@Blinkers2007GameDev]

Hi! As a game developer, I have a gaming laptop as I need the power. I also do pygame programming with it, but mostly unity game development. On top of that, I do gaming on the side and use it for work/netflix. It works like a charm!

[@RomPereira]

When I started developing for web, we would call it CGIs and would code it on C. There were no frameworks. Everything was custom and we would play MUDs for fun.

[@AbiNephilim]

I currently use a Macbook at work however at home I use an old gaming PC but have been debating on whether I should use my gaming laptop instead - which bought me to this video 😄

[@ajlau9481]

im keeping an eye out for a gaming laptop both to game the occasional high end game in a given year and to machine learning faster. it does help to code efficiently but it can only go so far till it becomes a hardware issue. i'll also keep notes on the resolution aspect that's something i didn't know would be important. thx for the tips!

[@teguharifandi3489]

yes sir, cooling is the key, business laptop can have latest high performance cpu and big ram but cooling is never adequate enough

[@georgiosloupatsaris238]

Damn this was really helpful and definitely though the video length was way more than 13 minutes haha anyways great video

[@VisioX2K]

Well, here we go... PHP Developer/Consultant, working for Zend, 2018 Macbook Pro 2.9 GHz 6-core i9 with 32GB, 3 external monitors. Plenty of Storm projects open and Docker running, no issues so far...

[@dakshdesai]

I started with a i3 5th gen laptop for web and python dev and now i switched to M1 MacBook Air and this switch was amazing. I use three js and blender works great with M1 macs

[@hsk797]

Same here

[@CodingArk]

Do you use 13" or 14" one?

[@p_square]

@@CodingArk m1 macbook air comes in 13" inch only

[@billal2731]

That's quite an upgrade

[@racistpixel1017]

dude 5th i3 ... you switch to anything from this decade and a switch will be amazing Xd

[@videosuu300]

I use a gaming laptop for programming, because I like to game during the day. People usually think they can be really hot and loud, but for 90% of us, they don't reach that point. Usually you don't need the full power of the CPU while doing most of the programing tasks. There are some scenarios where I have to use a mac like using safari or IOS simulator.

[@AB-tx5wo]

Mine turns into an engine when I’m in Microsoft word lol

[@videosuu300]

@@AB-tx5wo you can play with the profile and wattage, I got g14 pretty silent by default, but I have a work profile which uses only 18w on CPU and 45W on GPU. On battery I am using 10w which gives me about 10h of battery life, ofc depending on the task. For games I am going with 25w on CPU with max on GPU that's noisy but since its for gaming its ok.

[@micci9865]

I am a software developer and in my former employment we were using a Jurassicly old laptop. The reason why we opted this time for a gaming laptop not because we can play games but generally because gaming laptops possess excellent speed during runtime. we did consider apple products but because it still has too many apps that it has yet to support, we opted for a conventional approach.

[@otakuyasha0066]

Could I ask which gaming laptop, I've been wanting to learn to program but also do a little gaming on the side

[@micci9865]

@@otakuyasha0066 any laptop that has intel i5 latest gen. SSD is required then up to you when it comes to GPU.

[@otakuyasha0066]

@@micci9865 thank you

[@11vag]

That intro was hilarious

[@amaelftah]

thanks alex for these great videos ... i want to ask you if you can make a test with 16 or 8 giga ram + swap area ... like how much swap is fast and useful

[@dankosek4274]

When I’m researching a topic I leave tabs open for that research. Because I research multiple topics I can have 15-20 tabs open for that plus a normal 3-6 tabs… I’m down from the days of 60-100 tabs… 😂 I went to the 16” MBP in the base configuration and I’m happy.

[@knowspace19]

I am reading computer engineering on a versity.i am willing to buy a laptop.but i am confused Between gaming and professional laptop.is gameing laptop is good for coding with is sort time battery back up.

[@harleyspeedthrust4013]

I use a gaming laptop for development, it has a 2070 with max q (the max q indicates that it's a laptop version of the 2070, almost as powerful as a full 2070 but abysmal cooling) and i've had it for about 2.5 years now. i love this thing, it's always fast and when it isn't it's because it overheated. compile times are low and machine learning stuff is a breeze. i don't do game development but i like knowing that i could do it on this machine if i wanted to

[@namankoshta3637]

Bro help me with one thing . Should i buy mac m1 at 85000 rupees or should i buy a gaming laptop worth 65000 rupees For game development

[@supersquad1991]

@namankoshta3637 if you're going for game development then going with windows would be a better choice because in Mac m1 you can only develop game for iPhone only and it doesn't have that many features like how a windows laptop have and you can do much more then that in windows then in Mac m1 and Mac m1 will not support alot of gaming development languages, yes you can use a virtual machine but it's not that good in virtual machine compare to a windows laptop because it also requires and good GPU.

[@__lalisa]

​@@namankoshta3637which laptop did you buy

[@PortfolioPL]

For AA and AAA game dev we never use notebooks. I have a desktop PC with Xeon CPU and 128GB ram, fastest NVME storage and full sized videocards. AAA editor with game alone eats 40GB RAM + Visual Studio, etc. A full rebuild would be around an hour on one PC but we use distribute thee workload among the team's PCs, so it is ok. Slightly different from web dev :)

[@sudarshangopinathan5904]

Only slightly

[@haroldallaberg6359]

what about just using unreal engine? do you need all that for something like UE?

[@nateriver2370]

@@haroldallaberg6359 depends if it's a heavy game like rdr2 yes strong PC would be necessary.

[@SerPLENTI]

@@nateriver2370 let’s be realistic nobody is developing a game that drastic anytime soon

[@abdullahattia2491]

man I Just love your videos! btw, I just got a dell g15 for data science 😂

[@AZisk]

Enjoy!

[@forthewubwubs]

Gaming laptops offer similar specs for cheaper when compared to workstation laptops and you can get stealthily gamer laptops now so you might aswell get the power for the same price although you dont get the hardware validation that comes with workstations but thats not really an issue as of late

[@franciscocv1995]

Just starting and teaching my self. Have a 5 year old gaming laptop. I7 skylake with a 3gb 1060. 16 gbs of ram.

[@ellandill]

Have thinkpad, actually hate it, even when I open control panel the fan starts working, it's not loud but I can hear it and it's annoying. This is why I've started to wondering if gaming laptop with a better cooling could be a good choice. I'd 13'' xps in the past and the fan was just terrible

[@MuhammadbinYusrat]

I use macbook air M1. Gets the job done just fine. (Front end developer)

[@GodRockCafe]

ive never used anything but a gaming laptop. its the all in one wonder to get things done, including taking a break

[@rogern3662]

Hey, I am planning to buy a gaming laptop with amd graphics card. Right now I am using google colab for training AIML models and learing AI Ml. Can I run Ml models natively on my amd graphics card? and how the performance would be in respect to nvidia cards. Please reply as I have been searching for this answer for a long time and haven't got a satisfactory answer.

[@remigoldbach9608]

I switched to the dell XPS for Programming, but I also used a Gaming Laptop before. That intro BTW 😃

[@emreaka3965]

I am a developer and I use an i3 3rd generation 9 years old laptop to develop full-stack WEB applications. A laptop with integrated graphics and 8GB of RAm would be enough for my case. 3rd generation processor is a bit struggling but not that bad XD

[@GabrielThaArchAngel]

I bought a macbook pro due to your videos as i am learning to code. I would like to see you compare the new razer blade 16 vs your macbook as they are same size, keyboard layout, trackpad, and slim design.

[@AZisk]

Noted! these are hard to get at the moment though

[@riccardoatwork5291]

Nowadays for someone that is into Game Dev with Unity and Unreal and Machine Learning would you still recommend a Gaming Windows Machine or a MacBook Pro? I know the windows machine with Nvidia card should be the obvious choice but I really love how quiet the fans are on a Mac, the chance to work with just battery power and now even the chance to work with 64 or 128 Gb of Ram... while the best you can do with a 4090 in a laptop is 12 or 16 Gb....

[@derzw3rg]

I use a current 8 core i7 3070 32gb ram razer blade for my dev stuff and I don't touch my max spec 2019 macbook pro anymore. Won't look back as I really like the wsl workflow

[@scepticMK]

i want to get a computer for coding, would an asus tuf gaming a15 be good for coding as well as testing the games?👍

[@atharvarusia6190]

Used an old dell Inspiron 13" 4th gen dual core i7 8GB, that machine had some severe heating issues, I mean, if I put it under load for 2 mins, it would take a long nap for 30 mins, and now getting a 16GB M1 MacBook Air, I am still astonished how cool it is, but I used that laptop till 2021, and it was "workable". The only reason I got this m1 was that I needed to get into mac os for some dev work, but even now, if someone hands me a regular i3 or i5 with 8GB, I can still somewhat work with it.

[@trenerjakub2605]

Hi, I would like to ask for your advice. we would like to create a 3D game similar to outlast 1 (slightly shorter and smaller) in unreal engine 5. Would this hardware be enough for us? graphics card 4gb, NVIDIA rtx 3050 processor intel core i5 11400 tiger lake, 2.7hz to 4.5hz, cache 12mb ramka 16gb, dd4, 3.2ghz thank you for any advice and I wish you much success.

[@consistentapple2844]

Got the omen 16.1 and I’m taking a game development major. Will this work for unreal engine? Unity? It’s at 16gb but I can upgrade to 32gb in future.

[@adriananttila6312]

Every computer I've ever owned has been as much into gaming as possible (even Macs -- I always buy the best video card available) because I'm a web developer AND a gamer. Yes, we do exist!

[@phillipgoat00]

Being a web developer/gamer is really a common thing dude.

[@Ajax-zx9pz]

@@phillipgoat00 😂

[@y4lnux]

I have a Gaming laptop for programming , a Lenovo y5 core i7 , 32gb ram, gpu nidia 2060 8gigs, so I have different programming environnents running on VM , some Websctapping on a Ubuntu vm, web development and ,micro services on a windows VM, also my containers docker run on another ubuntu vm

[@harshit.chitkara]

I've been using an ASUS TUF GAMING A15 as my main machine. It has a Ryzen 4600H & GTX 1650 inside, not a beast. Though, enough for me. I purchased it mainly for computer vision but, ended up as my main machine.

[@tiyar8478]

Hi how long a battery life when u using it on your computer vision task? Is it about 5 hour?

[@MaheshM-eo2su]

@@tiyar8478 3:30 hours to 4 hours

[@RichardHorpe]

For most devs, macbooks are handed out for free if you work for any reputable startup etc, so the only logical solution is to use your hard earned money on the most rgb and fps possible.

[@mrpapua100]

yes, but mostly they have the shit macbooks like the m1 13" base model and in some cases even an intel macbooks

[@neil_m899]

I am a Game developer and I still use a M1 MacBook Pro. It’s working really good so far.

[@rayensabandar8392]

are there any particular reason for that? And how much RAM do you actually need if one were to buy M1 MacBook Pro?

[@neil_m899]

@@rayensabandar8392 I do mobile game dev with Unity, so I need a Mac to build for iOS. And M1 is faster than any windows desktop/laptop I've ever used. I have 8GB Ram. If you want it for Unity Game Development, I'd highly recommend the 16GB RAM. For other use cases, 8GB is ample enough. I've noticed some slowdowns when I have Unity & JetBrains Rider open at same time because of 8GB ram. Both of them are super heavy applications.

[@rmcf3972]

Is a macbook air m1 8gb good for game or java development?

[@namankoshta3637]

@@rmcf3972 yaa same question anyone please answer

[@ignaciogaitan965]

Ahh! Right now MSI GS66 i9, RTX 2070 Super and 64 GB RAM! Mobile development is really hungry! And virtualization is really important for me! Linux as my main OS, but also Windows 11 and of course OpenCore Mac os x installation as well

[@joshclemons6612]

you have me researching this laptop as an option for learning front end web dev and to have for gaming as well. I can't see myself spending 2k+ for a MacBook that won't run and play games the way a gaming laptop PC will. I mean you can get a gaming laptop a good one for the same price or less than a MacBook.

[@shankar3459]

Using macbook air i5 5th gen since ages

[@nirmali1507]

Will ml work with tesorflow in a i7 1065g7 laptop with mx350 gpu with 4gb vram

[@Ruptured_AU]

In Australia, the Mac is closer to 5thousand dollars and the gaming machines with an rtx3070 are the cheap ones starting around half that price. So as a developer I chose the gaming laptop because you pay much less and get the gpu as a bonus. PS.. 32gb is the Ne minimum IMHO. Get 32 you will need it eventually.

[@danishsharma496]

500 australia dollar id so cheap. As compared to Indian it is 1500 australia dollar on 20 percent student discount

[@joshraab3657]

where do you recommend buying a laptop in Australia? I'm a programmer and looking to get something with fast performance to run code quickly, my personal preference is i7+ and 3060+, can you be kind enough to recommend me something? I'm on a budget. i do not care about big brands names or anything i just want the best out of a laptop.

[@lehoang15tuoi]

Except that the MBA M1 with 16gb of Ram is already enough for app/web development. And it costs 1k8 in Australia

[@karuniaawalramadhan9627]

Sir, Is ThinkPad P50 overrall good for Android Development?, stuck on money

[@sanchax7920]

is it ok to buy a zephyrus g14 bto i am still a student

[@alfih896]

I have been using asus rog zephery g14 as my daily dev machine since 2020 it came out in India. Did the job better than mac book pro i7 that i had from 2018-2020. Now ill get rog strix or legion .

[@championsofodin9868]

How hot does the wrist rest and keyboard get?

[@mrpete891]

Discount code for Parallels?

[@huangshufen2211]

so, 16 inch or 17 inch is better for coders?

[@hikmat5939]

Thanks for your video! Would you consider a gaming laptop with the following specifications Screen rate: 300Hz GPU: rtx 3080 / 8Gb CPU: i7 12700H Ram: 32 Gb DDR5 A no.1 device, Giant laptops competitor, or an Excellent laptop? Also, do you think the mentioned properties are good for AI tasks.

[@gevor3338]

Not a developer, just learning bought a dell g15 5520 with rtx 3060 because it was on the affordable side and it had the specs i wanted

[@abderrahmankhalladi7577]

tobey maguire really knows what he's talking about

[@aaronthomas4072]

After starting my comp sci degree and the prog side of things, I have realised what U have me at by "30" chrome tabs

[@wlcrutch]

I would guess the high performance and excellent gpu would make for a great performer

[@wahebplays]

i5 10th gen with gtx 1650 , 16 to 32 gb ram is it good for game programming?

[@weekwonghow]

For the past 20 years of programming i use more then 30 laptops.... I believe i use lots of different laptop, but i have 1 gaming laptop for my coding... and i always have a 2 in 1 for my none coding work.....

[@BackpackandGear]

I bought my 4th generation i7 laptop in 2013 with a 2GB Dedicated video card from Nvidia. I never use it because I'm not a gamer so the laptop always uses the integrated Intel Graphics. I could have probably saved myself around $200 had I known that back then!

[@montrealchannel7986]

Please do some gave dev related benchmarks... I'm a gave developer who works in unreal and in the market looking for a mobile workstation to work with unreal engine.

[@conradmbugua9098]

gave?

[@chanceslaughter3237]

I have a gaming laptop that I'm getting rid of for a new m2 air... I have a home desktop I built that's decently specced out and don't like lugging the low battery life heavy laptop around

[@thehypotheticalhuman6166]

4:07 well its the other way around here in india, non-gaming laptops cost way too much than gaming laptops,

[@gotham4u]

I also have 150+ tabs across multiple instances of Chrome and Edge browsers ! Isn't that higher than yours?

[@andtpfack8243]

I programmed for the longest time on a 2008 processor ( AMD Athlon X2 QL-62). It is still fine for most tasks but it lacks the new instructions sets and decoding video brings it to its knees.

[@jenex5608]

I do Mobile dev and use 8gb works perfectly fine.

[@andrewgrant788]

I don’t use a laptop for programming. For my day job a 12 core 64gb Windows 10 workstation with a 40” monitor. For side projects and remoting in to my Windows workstation from home, I use a 2020 27” 10 core iMac also with 64GB.

[@qhwekhuheh9127]

What gaming laptop do you have there?

[@truthmatters7573]

I would use any laptop that gives the best performance for the price, including gaming laptops, for programming.

[@mitchlaurensantillan58]

​@@lykkos290thanks, i felt relieved that I'm not the only one using a gaming laptop for programming

[@mitchlaurensantillan58]

@@lykkos290 how long is you gaming laptop's battery life?

[@Evteboda]

I used a gaming laptop for development in 2017-2021 before getting a Macbook air m1. It is nice and powerful, but weight and heavy fan noise, the small battery makes it not travel friendly.

[@rmcf3972]

Is macbook air m1 a better choice?

[@Evteboda]

@@rmcf3972 yes for everything except games

[@WilliamShrek]

I am a web developer. I build websites, mobile apps with js. I am not using a gaming laptop. I am the kind of guy who does not play PC games.😅 I am only insterstes in programming and all these tech stuff.

[@fpeezdoo9859]

Linux support is a big issue in gaming laptops I’ve tried to choose a laptop for a dual boot setup (Linux for my job and Windows for gaming and some testing). “Business” Dell/Thinkpad laptops are fine but literally all gaming machines I considered had issues with Linux, according to the info I googled. And all those ugly RGB LEDs… Meh

[@Qrzychu92]

I would strongly recommend taking a look at Thinkpads. By the time you spec up 16BG of RAM, 1TB ssd, it will be 50% of MacBook Air. Also, Thinkpads still have cooling blower on the side, which means that if your laptop is loud, it is really doing some cooling (Dell XPS, cough cough). Just choose the AMD processor and you will be golden. And the keyboard is just amazing - I have T14 with R7 processor, this may be the best laptop I ever owned. Compared to Dell XPS 15 (Precission 5550) from work, it is just better. Yes, Dell is built better and has much better trackpad, but it is so frikin loud. Just watching YT makes it warm and the fans start making noise. T14 reamains silent until you hit a big compile or start a VM

[@harishvarkannadasan5555]

@Qrzychu92 which thinkpad do you own? And what would you suggest me for classical ML applications?

[@Qrzychu92]

​@@harishvarkannadasan5555 I used the t14 gen 2 with AMD - awesome, and p14s with Intel and Quadro GPU - sucks. Intel got extremely hot evenwith the most basic tasks, battery life was under 2h, and it was slower than AMD. I would recommend the T14 gen 3 or 4, with AMD. If you need an nVidia GPU for ML, then get something like X1 Extreme, or just go with Asus ROG G14

[@harishvarkannadasan5555]

@@Qrzychu92 thanks, it helps.

[@MrAnil5]

Let the keyboard vedio happen! We need to know your thoughts

[@jaroslavhuss7813]

I do nodejs and React - M1 Air now, but I will be switching soon to M1 Pro 14". A have vomitting attacks just looking at the Windows :x

[@samaia837]

You can change OS to Linux

[@esparda07]

You need sleep my friend. Your eyes are going to fall off your head.

[@amankushwaha8927]

Now M2 supports PyTorch too.

[@angrysob7962]

I'd love to see you compare one of the new Intel 12th gen Core series against the M1 Max for some of the more strenuous development tasks and/or for running resource hungry virtual machines. Some of the canned benchmarks I've seen on the 12th gens are really impressive. Surely you have enough clout by now to get Dell/MSI/ASUS, etc., to hook you up with an eval unit?

[@AZisk]

I’m waiting for those to become available. Seems the wait is longer than I waited for my MacBooks

[@angrysob7962]

@@AZisk I was looking at Dell's AlienWare. Looks like they're quoting early March delivery dates. I've been waiting on an M1 Max since November and they just pushed the delivery date into April so I'm about to cancel that order.

[@RunForPeace-hk1cu]

@@angrysob7962 alder lake laptops are battery 🔋 hog Would only get it if you need absolute performance and don’t care about battery life or fan noise or weight They are closer to desktop replacement laptops than anything

[@angrysob7962]

@@RunForPeace-hk1cu Your comment states perfectly what I'm looking for....A desktop caliber machine I can lug between my offices. I would not dream of carrying a 7 lb laptop any further than the parking lot to my office door.

[@RunForPeace-hk1cu]

@@angrysob7962 perfect my guy. 👌🏼 Apple Laptops would never satisfy your use case so it makes perfect sense to get a desktop replacement laptop. Apple has no intention of ever making a desktop replacement laptop (a tiny fraction of the population that’s not suited for mass deployment) so it’s just not designed for you. 👍🏼

[@skm6777]

I miss the days when you could work on your tan in front of your CRT.

[@leocrawf]

I am a Nativescript developer that uses a gaming laptop.

[@duanyu47]

The real dealbreaker for me on gaming laptop are the weight and battery life.... Gaming laptops tends to have big big power adapter and short battery life...

[@tejiriamrasa3258]

Honestly

[@mitchlaurensantillan58]

Yeahh, but the performance is really great

[@chaitanyadamarsingu9925]

Planning for Lenovo legion coz... M1 air charges extra ₹3000 or $40/(USB hub) - to insert my wired mouse or a USB drive

[@sguptzz]

Just get m2 air Legion will purely have horrible battery life after 2-3 years

[@afiadaily118]

how about Intel H series vs G series...on gaming laptop many of them use H series and on business laptop use G series...for programming which better sir..?

[@fuminochan]

Any is good enough for programming, but performance wise H series is notably faster

[@Fozzedout]

Yep, I use a gaming laptop - 16gb Ryzen, and it only cost $900 due to a half price deal 😅

I am comparing a Asus G15 with 32Gb to a mbp 16 with 32Gb of memory. The price is almost the double for the Mac. And if I need to I can still expand the ram in my Asus G15 even more

[@phillipgoat00]

@ The gaming laptop that I have was 999 on sale, but I got it at 1300 because of the pandemic but I don't regret paying that for a machine that gets the job done. I was a mac user and switching to windows again was really cool.

[@cbayonag]

Alex I have this issue right now because I'm a DevOps engineer and need to have a lot of work to test on X86 virtualization wanted to go on a 16 memory Mac but the memory is a crucial factor 🙁 but more than that I think that is mobility wanted to go with Tesla but X86 virtualización Is killing me

I am having the same issue

[@sidma6488]

Best combination is to have a Macbook Air and a Desktop PC for Gaming and 3D stuff.

[@phillipgoat00]

Same setup here. I watch movies/tv, web browsing with the air m1 and heavy stuff with my desktop (ryzen). I don't think I can go back to only one machine. I love macos for fun and windows only for work. Also having dolphin working natively with the m1 using a ps5 controller makes it the perfect partner to game on the bed.

[@ElinLiu0823]

Yeah,i recently update my 2060 laptop(OMEN5 with Intel Core i7 six core processor) to an OMEN 8 Plus(with Intel Core i7 12800HX processor,32GB DDR5 RAM,1TB PCIE4.0 SSD and RTX3080Ti GPU). To the reason why i'm not buy 13th gen Core i9 and RTX4090 combo,is that:budget limit....😂 Turn back to the topic,the only one reason i'm not recommend to coding on a gaming laptop is that the fan is too noisy.

[@eshnd.]

most AAA game devs use pcs. most indie game devs use whatever they already have (usually gaming laptops or pcs since they were probably gamers before getting into game dev).

[@adjindjic]

Hey man, let's start hyping on office chairs. I see you are sitting on old Herman Millar Aeron, but would appreciate your view on the expansive chairs value :)

[@FlopsPL]

99% and only 1% game developers will be quite accurate. I'm not game dev (only sometime on evening I am, and only for retro). I'm using at the moment Mac (from less than 1year), but before I used Windows machines, only look at CPU speed and quality of screen/body and up time - like HP Envy 13", sometimes gaming MSI metal ones.

[@namankoshta3637]

Will mac be good for gaming and programming ?

[@FlopsPL]

@@namankoshta3637 I think no. For gaming buying PC laptop. For programming depends what you like to program. If for MacOS/IOS only Mac, for PC desktop will be best PC, for web development every (Mac or PC).

[@GrowingEggplantion]

I use a gaming laptop and im game developing rn

[@mohammedzubair3730]

i'm gonna take data science and cybersecurity for my college. what laptop should i opt an m1 macbook air 8gb ram or an gaming laptop

[@suhaibwani1168]

Same. which one is the best the m1 macbook or asus rog strix g15 for the above mentioned purpose. If anyone has the answer please do reply.

[@kodiakfrg4571]

@@suhaibwani1168 get a gaming laptop so you can mess with virtualization.etx and even gaming, not to mention you can upgrade ram and storage, I recommend a Razer Blade 14-15 or a Lenovo legion Slim 7 for a minimalistic look

[@ajm_star]

Answered... Code and game on the same machine

[@mvargasmoran]

04:16 web devs with 8Gb RAM, that's asking for a really bad time. Web devs need to run a bunch of stuff, from just DB and Backend, and the heaviest of browsers (chrome), alongside a bunch of other browser crap (Vscode, Postman/insomnia, the app itself, and more), and that's the light side. The heavy side is to replicate part of the cloud entirely for local development, most likely a devspace (that's kubernetes) with several services including Kafka. if you are learning HTML + CSS maybe you can run 8gb of RAM, if you are also doing JS, that's most likely one of them fat frameworks with their sluggish tooling. Backend Golang, is way lighter than the "web dev" stuff.

[@panagiotisfollas1799]

I have a gaming laptop msi which is light only 1.8klg, and 64GB RAM, nvidia GPU, and I use a lot of virtual machines, and I can say I am not going back.... and stays for years! and because it has controls for the fans, I can close them and have it quit for reading...

[@fabiojuniorxD]

I always used a gaming desktop pc

[@MightySathvik]

I use a gaming laptop that is asus f15 rtx 3060 it works awesome 👍👏 and I love it btw I am a cyber security hacker

[@dputra]

Using a mac doesn't stop you from playing Minecraft or even use parallels to spin a windows VM and play Lost Ark 😅

[@namankoshta3637]

So can i buy m1 for coding and little gaming