Comments by "Andy Dee" (@AndyViant) on "This is the CHEAPEST Gaming Laptop I could find... and it's pretty good!" video.

  1. I'm using a MSI GF series 10500/1650. Solid laptops, well specced out.
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  2. @Dark Joker 2 for tightly TGP limited products you often find that the 1650 outperforms the 3050 and 3060. That's why I didn't spend $500 more for a 3050 part a year ago. There's only so much ability to cool in a small form factor.
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  3. Ridiculously, the US$650 Tuf ASUS F15 laptop has an Aussie Amazon price of A$1499 for the 10300/1650 version. On current exchange rates as a A$940 laptop this would be a great deal. At $1499, well... you can see how much you're getting taken for a ride. AMD 4600H version a far more reasonable A$1160. I picked up a similar spec MSI 10500/1650 about a year ago for $999 Australian Dollarydoos. They're now available as an 11400/1650 for similar pricing. A slightly higher spec 144 Hz one was available but it was about $500 extra at the time, but came with twice the memory and twice the SSD space. I upgraded both and called it good enough. I think mine is only a 75hz screen though, so kind of regret it. But how frequently you can actually get up into the 144Hz range on a budget gaming laptop is up to you... you'd have to be running awfully low settings to achieve that and for mobile gaming performance my 4g wifi is usually by far my biggest limitation. Funny thing is in Australia, Amazon prices for most of this kind of stuff are 50-100% higher than you can get them from a brick and mortar store, or if they're price competitive they are almost always a far inferior product being dumped on the lazy or gullible. Right now a Gigabyte G5 or G7 is under $1200 Dollarydoos with a 11400H and RTX 3050 and 144Hz panel. You can get the A series versions with the AMD mobile CPU normally a few hundred cheaper. The ASUS TUF F15 can be got with a 12700 and 3050 for $1449 from the same brick and mortar dealer who will do shipping. The very laptop you've listed here is basically the same price on Aussie Amazon as the Gigabyte G5 with 3060 and 12500H (G5 KE-52DE213SD) which should absolutely romp all over it. 12500 vs 10300, and 3060 vs 1650, for the same price? Game over. That would be my personal recommendations to anyone looking to buy a cheap gaming laptop downunder right now. If you want the TUF, as reviewed here by Jay, go to another retailer, and you can get a much higher spec one cheaper. If you HAVE to buy off Amazon for whatever reason, get the Gigabyte with the 12500/3060. A reminder to make sure you do your research, people, as what's cheap over there may not be cheap in your market.
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  4. Funnily the Gigabyte G5 is an US$849 Amazon laptop, showing the reverse is also true.
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  5. My MSI will just shut down in seconds if you have the battery profile set to extend battery life. If I'm gaming I always run on wall power. If I choose "kill the battery I don't care" you can get maybe an hour of gaming from fully charged at most.
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  6. I just put a big post up the top about exactly this. Umart will do the 12700/3060 version of the Tuf F15 for $1449, cheaper than Amazon does the 10300/1650 version. As always, check prices at Umart, Centrecom, Scorptec etc. Amazon AU is very expensive, and if the price is even close to the same as one of the other places I listed it will be for a far inferior product.
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