I’m in the market for a new laptop. I’m currently considering the Framework 16 but I’m wondering if there’s anything else I should look at. The System 76 Adder WS seems like a better value, but I’m hesitant to buy Nvidia.

I don’t need anything super portable, just looking for a decently powerful laptop for some gaming and other basic tasks. I use openSUSE TW but even with the Nvidia repo I’ve had issues with Nvidia graphics.

  • AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    61·
    1 year ago

    I tried it with Cyberpunk 2077 and the latency was so low I couldn’t notice it. I had no issues weaving in and out of traffic at high speeds.

    It’s really a matter of whether your ISP can handle it. Many of those in the US cannot because there’s not a lot of regulations regarding the minimum quality of service they have to provide.

    • datavoidEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Interesting. I’m in Canada, maybe it’s worse up here.

      I had an old manager telling me about the 5ms ping he had when living in the states. In my mind anything below 100 was great

    • cnnrduncan@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Also depends on where the servers are - latency probably won’t be great if you’re on the literal opposite side of the world from the servers that you’re streaming the game from!