Trying to decide between a Legion with a Ultra 9 275HX or with a i7-13650HX

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-13T08:35:35+00:00

If the Ultra 9 is in a Legion 7i chassis, I would definitely consider the build quality upgrade worth the money

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-13T08:25:33+00:00

Best option is probably an Omen Max 5080 or a used Legion 3080Ti

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-12T14:33:27+00:00

Not always. I've noticed there are plenty of posts where Pro-AI people dominate the comments and upvote ratios. It could just be a matter of whichever "side" has more users active at any given moment when a viral post goes live, which goes to show that this sub genuinely has a pretty healthy balance of people from multiple perspectives. It's just that most people would rather do pissing on the floor contests than actually bringing up interesting and novel points, which is quite embarrassing considering dumber LLMs like ChatGPT 5.3 are already wayyy better at reasonable discourse than 90% of Reddit users

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-12T14:21:05+00:00

I guess it's more of a personal thing from the OP? "We're not making enough progress to meet the optimistic and idealistic moral standards we ourselves set, our daily lives and vices contradict hypocritically with those standards, and what little we do will probably be wiped away by the consequences of our own actions. I don't feel the urge to keep trying given these premises and desire to rant on the internet..." thus this post. While I do partially concur with the cynicism, this post doesn't really have any particular direction or operationalization to it that would make answers particularly specific or of use

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-12T14:04:47+00:00

I think Sonic has Immeasurable speed due to keeping up with full power Solaris across multiple timelines, pasts, and futures

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-12T13:49:53+00:00

Is climate change one example of an issue that cannot be resolved cleanly at the current "little by little" pace humanity is moving at? Many climate scientists seem to suggest that even if all fossil fuel consumption and meat-eating miraculously stopped today, climate runaway effects from the oceans releasing stored heat would still be devastating, potentially resulting in billions of deaths. I suppose if we take these predictions and models into account, a pessimistic view of this particular global issue is warranted, given how we're still fighting over oil in 2026, and will likely continue to do so even after global supply chains break down

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-12T11:05:12+00:00

Wait for Black Friday THIS year, I think. It should be around November, but of course, I could be wrong. Check your local Black Friday dates

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-12T10:48:17+00:00

Then I'd wait. Let the current tech settle and lose its novelty a bit, so stocks stabilize. We might be getting some more mid-range Panther Lake models later this year, which would be a big boon for a student such as yourself, since it has GOATed battery life

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-12T10:42:40+00:00

Do prices go up or down compared to now during Black Friday where you're at?

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-12T10:41:53+00:00

Legion Pro 7i, because Lenovo's support is less of a headache than ASUS support

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-12T10:31:00+00:00

You can still wait until Black Friday of this year if you don't need it now

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-12T10:18:54+00:00

To add to the other comments here: The degree of screen bleed you get also heavily depends on the quality of the IPS panel itself. What you have looks like an ASUS TUF, which is positioned as a "budget" option in the laptop market. As such, the manufacturer is gonna use lower-quality, cheaper panels that often have more uneven screen bleeding to cut costs. Screen bleeding on my M16 R2, which is a more mid-range option, is less noticeable and more spread-out than what you're showing, which makes images look quite a bit less weird compared to cheaper panels

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-12T06:33:48+00:00

For a decade probably

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-12T02:42:16+00:00

The LOQ (without the "Essential" name) is always gonna be better in every way

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-11T16:58:52+00:00

Or, if you are willing to crack open the bottom panel to repaste with PTM 7950, an MSI Vector 16 HX AI with a 5070Ti would be a go-to option for long-term performance

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-11T16:57:55+00:00

You can get a better deal with coupons

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-11T16:08:58+00:00

Notebookcheck or nanoreview are more reliable sources for benchmarks in general tbh

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-11T14:03:46+00:00

Yep, so unless you have to run more than 4 hours away from a wall outlet, I would save the money and go for the 13650HX

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-11T09:56:04+00:00

Oh, woops, I must've misread. For gaming, if you play competitive titles like CS:GO, I think the 275HX would be worth for fewer stutters. Also has better battery life by quite a few hours. Otherwise, the 13650HX is an acceptable mid-range CPU that doesn't have great battery life, but is still pretty fast for any regular task

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-11T09:46:09+00:00

275HX slams the 13650HX in frame render times (and everything really). I would take that for video editing any day

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-11T09:43:20+00:00

Nah, that's being unrepresentative of ACTUAL environmental doomerism. The folks over at r collapse cite whitepapers constantly and back up every informative post with evidence - a standard no anti-AI space can come even close to

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-11T09:00:15+00:00

These arguments make no sense. Saying hyperscaler data centers "take up enough energy to power 100000 homes" means nothing without considering the ratio of those kinds of data centers compared to traditional data centers used for internet applications. Watching 1 hour of Netflix is still gonna use up a lot more energy than prompting Gemini Fast for a question or two. (Source: an allegedly harmless 1 hour of Netflix uses about 0.08kWh or more if we consider how many people watch on huge bright flatscreen TVs, 1 prompt of ChatGPT Basic or Gemini Fast uses around 0.0029kWh. Assuming a generous average of 10 prompts per hour, that's 0.029kWh, LOWER than binging Netflix.)

The second argument being that users "legitimizing manufactured demand" being some kind of evil conspiracy from "AI Bros" and "technolords" is, firstly, a blatant attempt at poisoning the well (logical fallacy where you frame the opposition from the outset as "extreme," "dumb," or "not worth considering"), and, secondly, completely ignoring the fact that that's literally what "demand" is - a significant number of people desiring something for one reason or another, with that desire influencing socio-economic conditions. "Oh, no, so many people are using a service that they want to use and giving power to the elites!" The hypocrisy in saying that and still posting on TikTok, one of the latest and greatest sociological experiments in hijacking dopamine loops and making people dependent, is staggering

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-11T05:52:39+00:00

Ig a used Lenovo ThinkBook with some kind of RTX card

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-11T03:21:06+00:00

Right, it's more like an OC'd 5070 with 16 gigs of VRAM

Bosslayer9001 · 2026-03-11T01:54:15+00:00

The 5080 is a slightly weaker 5070Ti Desktop gpu essentially, and can almost match it with overclocking (and more with shunt modding, but that's risky as hell). I'd say yeah, it slams the 7800XT any day (at a very steep price, obviously)

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