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Years ago I was looking into gaming laptops and all of the ASUS ones said PREDATOR in massive gamer-font letters. I'd be utterly embarrassed to be seen in public with that.
It's still hard to find laptops with a good GPU without the cringe-ass gamer aesthetic. Like for fuck's sake I'm not even a gamer, I wanted one for CG rendering.
Announcing to everyone at the library that I'm a predator because I'm a cool gamer
Have you looked at the Framework 16? It's a fully upgradable and repairable laptop that can come with an AMD Radeon RX 7700S and doesn't have any gamer branding. The issue is that it costs more than competing products, but all its competitors are gamer branded.
Amazon has the razer blade 15(2022) for about $2k, marked down from about $4k. Has a 3080ti