Originally posted by deppman
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That's more of a portable desktop at the expense of performance being throttled compared to equivalent desktop parts(which would be cheaper too). With some of the newer laptops crossing 20 hours in battery life and being thin/light, there's two very different markets there. I'm a developer too, and understand the desire for performance, especially for compiling. The dGPU unless actually relevant for the work, probably isn't helping? I used to buy bulkier laptops with such but found it better just to delegate anything that'd need that to a desktop machine, or if thunderbolt 3 is supported with x4 lanes(and eventually USB4), use an eGPU which in many cases is a far better solution(since you're not really aiming for much portability/travel on ~3 hours battery life and the bandwidth bottleneck usually isn't a problem).
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