My laptop is 7 years old starting to show it's age. I'm worried it will die soon so I've been looking for a replacement, but DAMN are decent laptops expensive these days.

I would like something powerful enough to play stuff like Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3 and FF:7 Rebirth (And most importantly, Monster Hunter Wilds when it comes out) at a decent framerate. It also has to be a university laptop, so nothing covered in RGB lights that looks like an Alienware fucked a Cybertruck, please.

I don't want to spend a ton of money, but am I being unrealistic? I don't want to spend 5000 on a computer, that's ridiculous, my car cost less than that.

Yes it's a shitty car, that's not the point. Stop judging my poor ass.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    4 days ago

    Will a Steam Decks play my GoG games and emulators though? I dunno, they're still pretty expensive in Australia and I'll be needing a laptop for work/uni anyway.

    I hear good things about them though... Hard choice for sure

    • The_sleepy_woke_dialectic [none/use name]
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      4 days ago

      Yes and emudeck will set all your emulators up for you and you only have to drop the roms and bioses in their respective folders

      /SNES /GBA /PSP etc.

      It handles all the controller bindings and adds all your roms directly to your steam library complete with cover art and organized by console into folders.

      It's a pretty capable PC for the price too.

        • The_sleepy_woke_dialectic [none/use name]
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          4 days ago

          I hope so too! Hey do you get chinese computers for cheap over there? Here in the states we can't buy xaiomi or Huawei products anymore and there are a few nice looking ones.

    • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 days ago

      Emulators yes. They have a Linux desktop underneath it. I'm sure you can play the GOG games but it might take a bit of playing with. Steam runs the games through a compatability layer called Proton.

      Here's a step by step