Just bought this laptop

[spohara]

https://deals.dell.com/en-us/productdetail/f9ze

Seems pretty solid, one of the top Ryzen 7 CPUs (wanted this over intel for power consumption/battery reasons), solid storage and RAM, USBC w/displayport + power.  On sale for $700, but if you have an Amex, check for a $120 statement credit from them, plus 2% from Rakuten.  All in all, after tax (heavy in my state) I should be out the door for about $605, which you really can't beat for the specs you get.

[bjcheung77]

Hmm, seems like a very good deal with the 16G RAM and the 512G SSD, I wouldn't recommend anything less than that nowadays... I was on SlickDeals just earlier and couldn't find a comparable deal, even though some laptops were close in price but with either an 8GB RAM or a smaller size screen at 13.3" instead. The CPU being AMD shouldn't be an issue for most apps, they perform well with graphical intensive applications such as CAD or games, I think this is very nice deal for the price!

[spohara]

Hmm, seems like a very good deal with the 16G RAM and the 512G SSD, I wouldn't recommend anything less than that nowadays... I was on SlickDeals just earlier and couldn't find a comparable deal, even though some laptops were close in price but with either an 8GB RAM or a smaller size screen at 13.3" instead.  The CPU being AMD shouldn't be an issue for most apps, they perform well with graphical intensive applications such as CAD or games, I think this is very nice deal for the price!

Yeah, hard to get those specs at that price.  And I wanted the AMD for its power consumption.  The comparable intel processor (although I think they do have a pretty beastly one now, I was comparing the 1260U) isn't even clearly better for all applications, so I'm happy with it. 16gigs should be standard now, its so cheap for memory, yet the price gap seems to be bigger than it should be by a long shot for most systems.  Even the 512 gig ssd shouldn't add more than $50 to the price, but it does.  I guess they just give you a lot more bells and whistles when you go above that.  Hard to do much better than this for the guts of the system though.  So far I'm pretty happy with it after using it for a little while now.

[bluebooger]

I'm thinking of this one
https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Legion-Gam...B09QM3QXV6

$879
Lenovo Legion 5
17.3" FHD Gaming Laptop,
AMD Ryzen 5 5600H(up to 4.2GHz),
16GB RAM
1TB NVMe SSD,
GeForce GTX 1650,
Windows 11

my current laptop is a 1050 ti, so this would be a small upgrade
and this is really getting close to my top budget

[Vle045]

I'm thinking of this one                  
https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Legion-Gam...B09QM3QXV6

Lenovo Legion 5
17.3" FHD Gaming Laptop,
AMD Ryzen 5 5600H(up to 4.2GHz),
16GB RAM
1TB NVMe SSD,
GeForce GTX 1650,
Windows 11

my current laptop is a 1050 ti, so this would be a small upgrade            
and this is really getting close to my top budget

Personally, I would look for at least a Ryzen 7.  If you can hold off, Best Buy typically has some great deals around Black Friday.  The last two years I have found laptops for around $500 - $600 with solid specs.  (We buy too many laptops in this house!)

[bluebooger]

yeah, but what kind of GPU do you have 

I wish I could get something that inexpensive with a half way decent graphics card             
I use my laptop for more than just work and school and playing around with programming           

I play Path of Exile (and my laptop already chokes on that), I play Diablo 2 Resurrected, Grim Dawn and a few other games -- nothing AAA with ray tracing and maxed out settings, but I'm already having problems on the games I do play

[LevelUP]

I'm thinking of this one                  
https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Legion-Gam...B09QM3QXV6

$879
Lenovo Legion 5
17.3" FHD Gaming Laptop,
AMD Ryzen 5 5600H(up to 4.2GHz),
16GB RAM
1TB NVMe SSD,
GeForce GTX 1650,
Windows 11

my current laptop is a 1050 ti, so this would be a small upgrade            
and this is really getting close to my top budget

I wouldn't trust buying a Chinese brand for the risk of them spying on you. I wouldn't buy a Chinese Cell Phone either.

China is known for installing hardware hacks that can't be patched. 
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/...ify%20wall

[bjcheung77]

Technically speaking, almost all computer related devices are made in Asia, the majority going to China and surrounding countries. All the major players of computer manufacturers have their development and factories in these countries, the cheaper/lower end would be built in the cheapest country for manufacturing, the higher end would be built in Taiwan, Korea, Japan.

[spohara]

I'm thinking of this one                  
https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Legion-Gam...B09QM3QXV6

$879
Lenovo Legion 5
17.3" FHD Gaming Laptop,
AMD Ryzen 5 5600H(up to 4.2GHz),
16GB RAM
1TB NVMe SSD,
GeForce GTX 1650,
Windows 11

my current laptop is a 1050 ti, so this would be a small upgrade            
and this is really getting close to my top budget

Is the H designation for a juiced up cpu? I saw the power consumption on one marked H and I said no thanks.  Same with the discrete GPU, but if gaming is your thing (or anything else where you need that kinda compute) seems like a solid buy.  I haven't been an enthusiast for a while, but last time I did a build a midrange CPU was fine with a good GPU. The other bottlenecks had more impact and it usually wasn't worth the money to go top of the market on CPU.  I used to OC and overvolt the desktops too though which I'm no longer interested in.