Would you take an interest in a used or refurbished laptop? More on reddit.com

Any laptop that doesn't have a dedicated GPU, It will never run Genshin Impact smootly. Always stay away from those, do not buy one. You'll regret it as I did. Endend up buying 2 laptop instead of one, because that one with integrated gpu was running genshin at 20/35 fps lowest settings. It was just a nightmare. Now I'm running at high settings with stable 60fps, it never drops! (Rtx 3060 laptop) Also nobody is mentioning that this laptop has only 512gb SSD, while genshin impact it selfs tooks around 110 gb and with natlan release probably will go more than 140+ gb, windows 11 it selfs is around 150 gb. So you'll end up with no space, you need to get at least 1TB SSD or 2TB SSD. More on reddit.com

https://www.mysmartprice.com/computer/asus-asus-rog-zephyrus-g14-ga402rk-l8148ws-laptop-msf596477 If there's gaming involved, or intensive work, this caught my eye. I'm not sure of budget, but the percentage cost increase is small compared to the performance increase ...which is massive. It should run anything a console (XSS/PS5) runs, so since the next consoles are 4-5 years away, it's got potential for ~5 years. https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-RX-6800S-GPU-Benchmarks-and-Specs.590207.0.html Edit: i7 CPUs is the level of the class of CPUs and the class of the "u" at the end of the numbers indicates "low-power" CPUs ...so weaker. (Basically, they're telling you it's one of their top level crap CPUs.) More on reddit.com

Are you planning to do ML? If yes, get one with a GPU ... would cost you upwards of 65k More on reddit.com