Got one of these: https://www.expertreviews.co.uk/laptops/1408048/pc-specialist-recoil-ii-review
It arrived yesterday and I’m still very much in the set-up phase. Has taken me a while to get all my adobe stuff setup and all the other stuff I need for my work, which is genuinely its main purpose. I’m starting to work more with video, and the thing I’ve been using recently was fine for photo work if I wasn’t trying to batch process hundreds of images, but video work was slow and frustrating.
Mine is on the higher end of the configuration so not so cheap. I configured it with 32 GB of ram, an rtx2060, 256gb SSD and a 2TB HDD. That should transform my workflow. It’s not massively portable, but it’s fine for lugging between house and studio, and maybe taking off on trips like my Clootie Well one last year, as long as I leave it at the AirBnB or whatever.
Interestingly (to me) Nvidia recently announced a range of “studio” PCs but I had the option of just downloading Studio drivers, as opposed to gaming ones. These are more optimised for the tools I use but I can just redownload new gaming drivers whenever I like through the Nvidia experience app. Things are so much less frustrating than I remember :)
Aaaaand, it’s tempting me back into the world of PC gaming. I’ve only managed to test out Hades so far, which ran beautifully, but I’ve got Satisfactory and Dauntless waiting to play today.
The only downside is heat and noise, but that’s to be expected in a laptop that can do this.