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HP's Omen Transcend 14 weighs just 3.5 pounds while packing up to an RTX 4070 GPU.

https://www.engadget.com/hp-unveiled-the-lightest-14-inch-gaming-laptop-in-the-world-at-ces-2024-130024558.html

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[–] Doods 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The lightest, this makes makes me think, what actually constitutes a gaming laptop, I have an old Intel 530 laptop, I can play Abe's Oddysee on it, and probably fallout, which makes it a gaming laptop, why do gamers chase the latest hardware when for mere cents they can get a good experience, an experience which was a dream to many.

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

It's just marketing terms and they carry zero weight (lol) or reasoning anymore. Best to ignore anything a company says and just look at the hardware and its use case. Companies will continue to lie to consumers and nothing will change that

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For me, a gaming laptop is with a dedicated GPU, for gaming.

[–] Doods 1 points 2 years ago

But what even IS a dedicated GPU, as far as I know, the small chip on you CPU only does graphics calculations.

You might say: "but it's soldered to the cpu", but in a laptop everything is soldered, and even share the same RAM sometimes. (or always, IDK much about laptops)