i recently purchased my own laptop specifically for travel and paid utmost attention to dimensions because it had to fit in my backpack which in turn had to fit under airline seat ... i never use a laptop at home - only my desktops but my parents don't have a desktop and do not take the laptop with them while traveling - they essentially use their laptop as a desktop replacement ... it just didn't make any sense for me to get anything other than a chonky gaming laptop for an application where it will sit on the desk its whole life and never move ... i did order a no-frills version that doesn't even have per-key RGB lighting since obviously my parents aren't going to customize RGB profiles LOL ... i also went for the lower end Nvidia GPU since they won't be playing any games ... but the CPU is Core Ultra 9 275 HX ... my parents should thank NoStrudel for convincing me that you can never have too much CPU power because with broken enough code even what should have been light weight software can completely bog down older CPUs ... sure if code was good we could all run 20 year old PCs no problem but the trend with modern web apps and pages is absolute resource gluttony ... View quoted note →