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Trying to find a decent well balanced laptop, help?
6 years ago
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-- DEVIANTART -- WEASYL -- SOFURRY -- TWITTER -- BLUESKY --SO, long story short, I want/need to upgrade my laptop as it is 6.5 years old.
Problem is that I have looked at and purchased 3 different laptops and have returned 2 of them.
1. Asus TUF, literally took it out of the box and immediately took it back, the casing was a cheaply made plastic that felt like I could snap it with my bare hands.
2. MSI Predator(?) I forget the exact model, but it was a higher end gaming laptop, the keyboard was kind of meh, but the sound is what really nixed it for me, it was loud, but the speaker were buried in the chassis of the machine and placed near the front edge, the part that sat closest to the table, so it had tons of reverb and almost no bass.
3. The HP OMEN; the one currently in my possession, everything feels nice about it, but again, the sound is the biggest issue, it is better than the MSI, but it again lacks any sort of bass. It sound great if I want to listen to piano concertos and that is all; but the moment I want to listen to a podcast it sounds awful literal garbage. I turn the Bang and Olufsen off and the podcasts sound way better, but then any music sounds super flat.
My old laptop is an HP ENVY and at the time it came with Beats Audio so it has the top panel speaker, two smaller front edge speakers and in the back corner by the optical drive it has a small 1.5" sub And it sounds infinitely better than either the MSI or the OMEN; which to me is just brilliantly stupid that the two newer laptops have worse audio than a laptop that is 6.5 years old, a dinosaur in terms of technology by comparison.
Is it even possible to find a laptop that is balanced to have good all around audio while still being able to play games with a mid tier GPU?
Problem is that I have looked at and purchased 3 different laptops and have returned 2 of them.
1. Asus TUF, literally took it out of the box and immediately took it back, the casing was a cheaply made plastic that felt like I could snap it with my bare hands.
2. MSI Predator(?) I forget the exact model, but it was a higher end gaming laptop, the keyboard was kind of meh, but the sound is what really nixed it for me, it was loud, but the speaker were buried in the chassis of the machine and placed near the front edge, the part that sat closest to the table, so it had tons of reverb and almost no bass.
3. The HP OMEN; the one currently in my possession, everything feels nice about it, but again, the sound is the biggest issue, it is better than the MSI, but it again lacks any sort of bass. It sound great if I want to listen to piano concertos and that is all; but the moment I want to listen to a podcast it sounds awful literal garbage. I turn the Bang and Olufsen off and the podcasts sound way better, but then any music sounds super flat.
My old laptop is an HP ENVY and at the time it came with Beats Audio so it has the top panel speaker, two smaller front edge speakers and in the back corner by the optical drive it has a small 1.5" sub And it sounds infinitely better than either the MSI or the OMEN; which to me is just brilliantly stupid that the two newer laptops have worse audio than a laptop that is 6.5 years old, a dinosaur in terms of technology by comparison.
Is it even possible to find a laptop that is balanced to have good all around audio while still being able to play games with a mid tier GPU?
However, if you really want to use the built in audio (for some reason) you should browse linus tech tips on youtube as his laptop reviews are very thorough and concise.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1e.....NAr9ikmtFbM2f4
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1f.....bEKXKB8LgMVdyK
there is the side by side audio, granted the recording is not going to be great in and up itself, because its on a phone, but.............it should suffice to make an example of what I am dealing with.
despite everything else good sound is an almost must along with being able to actually play game and run PS.
I would strongly recommend browsing Linus's channel for laptop reviews, as the sound is something they do test and rate, so that would be your best bet for a modern laptop.
Things I am generally looking for is a 17" screen; an i7 CPU, some sort of GPU that is around 1660Ti; has a slot a SATA drive; and has good sound.