solardev
10 hours ago
> I don't need a good graphics card.
Wait, then why are you looking for a gaming laptop? It's usually the GPU that separates them from regular laptops. What do you want in a "gaming" laptop if not the GPU? What are you going to be doing with it?
If you don't a need a dedicated GPU, small-biz laptops (Thinkpads, Latitudes, etc.) are similarly capable, usually more durable & repairable, and often have better keyboards. The screen is the one part that's sometimes different (some of them have low-res screens, but you can usually upgrade to a nicer OLED or such if you buy them new). Macbooks have OK keyboards too (not great, but better than a lot of the budget PC laptops).
If you only want to game occasionally, I'd just buy a used one of those business laptops and then subscribe to GeForce Now for $20/mo, which gets you a desktop RTX 4080 in the cloud. Then your laptop hardware doesn't matter so much; it's basically a dumb terminal with a keyboard and a screen.