Laptop for college and light gaming

[inland trench]

I'm looking for a laptop for college that's portable (14 inches max) and can handle light gaming (very light like hades for example nothing too crazy).
I stumbled upon this vivobook pro 14 https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-VivoBook-Display-GeForce-M6400RC-EB74/dp/B0BHW3HJB1?th=1

and while it seemed perfect at first I read a lot of reviews saying the battery was bad, so is it really that bad? do I just go for it or are there better alternatives perhaps?

[vale wasp]

i can say, i have the vivobook 14 s oled. the batterylife is ok. well its also a intel variant. idk how amd handles power consumption.

i got sometimes 3 hours runtime before the battery runs out.

since the laptop is a good deal, how much battery runtime do you need?

[inland trench]

to be fair my old laptop is 6 years old and it can barely handle 30 mins so I don't really know exactly what's considered "good battery" in today's standards.

but I would say 4 hours should be decent enough

[thorn palm]

yeah this laptop wont last 4 hours x3

[potent sable]

“Good battery” for a windows machine is usually 7 hours

Ultrabooks can last up to 9 and macbooks up to 14

This will probably last around 4, with how bad OLED power draw can be

Also beware of burn in on OLED. I’d personally avoid OLEDs on laptops because of this

Also do remember that this is the wimpy version of the no-good mobile 3050

It wouldnt do modern AAA very well

I’d also look at the ideapad 5 pro, usually cheaper for similar specs

[thorn palm]

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/configurator/cto/index.html?bundleId=21KJCTO1WWUS1

[thorn palm]

you could look for laptops with MX series gpus

[potent sable]

They’re even more ass

[thorn palm]

theyre puny yes bu will have significastly better battery life

[potent sable]

High power draw with less performance than 780m

[potent sable]

They will not

[thorn palm]

hmmm

7730U then?

[potent sable]

dGPU gets disabled when not in use

[thorn palm]

pff

i forgot abour mux

[potent sable]

So it draws milliwatts. Doesnt matter if it’s a 4090 or a 3050, it effectively draws 0w when it is not in use

[potent sable]

It’s optimus, not mux

[thorn palm]

fuck right mux is to switch optimus

off

[potent sable]

You fuck off

[thorn palm]

what

[potent sable]

What

[thorn palm]

wdym fuck off

[potent sable]

Idk you said fuck off first

[thorn palm]

i meant you use either a virtual or physical switch to turn optimus off

[thorn palm]

i said fuck as is fuck i forgot

[potent sable]

It’s virtual

Oh

Mux is usually controlled in bios

[thorn palm]

some high end laptops have physical ones

[potent sable]

Doesnt happen anymore, they’re all now in BIOS

[thorn palm]

some aorus laptops can have it switched thru software in windows, itll do the switch in bios for you basically

[potent sable]

And then there’s advanced optimus which can switch mux on/off dynamically as you launch GPU heavy apps

But it’s extremely jank

Nvidia: it just works™️

[thorn palm]

they need to fix it tbh

[thorn palm]

Novideo: we fuck with your laptop

that should eb nvidias name tbh

[inland trench]

I guess I should have specified. I'd prefer an OLED screen tbh so is that the average battery life for an OLED device then ?

[thorn palm]

less

what preference do you have on oled over WXUGA?

tehy can be as bright and have similar color accuracy

[inland trench]

Doesn't the OLED have better contrast and a better refresh rate ? idk much about this topic tbh

[thorn palm]

nope\

WXUGA can be good too

you just need to know what to look for

[thorn palm]

also what is your budget max?

[inland trench]

about a 1000 - 1100$

[potent sable]

3-4 hours yes

Do be warned of burn in

Laptop panels tend to burn in relatively quick

[raw pewter]

Do they actually? I have an OLED for about 6 years which was my daily driver for 3 of those years with no burn in, I know this is anecdotal but what's the actual %age of burn in that happen if anyone knows also does the resolution you run the oled at matter?

[potent sable]

Afaik there’s a different technology between TV OLEDs, laptop OLEDs, and phone OLEDs

Laptop OLEDs are the most prone to burn in

I’ve seen like 6 month old display models get burn in