The sale for that model seems to be over. If I see something else pop up I’ll share a link.
Given that you mention that you don’t necessarily need a laptop…you might take a look at the Beelink mini PCs on Amazon (but ignore the mentions of “gaming” in some of the Amazon listings).
There are arguably too many of them listed, due to the variety of CPU, memory, and SSD options available, but I have a couple of them running in my home (one for household automation, and another for hobbyist purposes) without issue, despite my initial skepticism.
Doing research on my next PC gaming rig. I want something that can handle goodly intense graphics but doesn’t have to be top of the line as I’m not a hardcore raider. I wouldn’t mind another gaming laptop, but Jaspess wonders if that much expense is worth it for something I don’t use quite as much as I used to.
Leaning toward the ASUS ROG XBox Ally X for the flexibility of handheld or docked, but they’re sold out until January, and I’m not paying the greed premium to get one on eBay since I’m not in a hurry to have it.
Started researching gaming-oriented mini PCs as well. Would like something at a similar price point to the aforementioned ASUS (about $1000 or so), but willing to consider something more if I need to.
I am such a cheap sob when it comes to hardware. my desktops are like I dunno how old, they don’t have graphics cards. my laptops are like 10 years old and I bought them refurbed.
our server in the basement should have a gpu installed because we are doing some ai stuff on it, but I haven’t quite got to the point of pulling the trigger on a 1000 dollar gpu. and the AI is running slowly on current hardware so… eh.