What do I look for? I'd like something powerful enough to run games, just in case I'm away from my console, but it'll mostly be used for work. Ideally I'd like it to be durable, because I'll probably have to take it on flights when Covid eventually burns out.
What's the lesser of two evils with Intel and AMD? One is run by a woman, the other talks about the future belonging to women.
I suppose I could buy used and negate that issue.
What's a good brand to get? I always had Lenovo before, except for a Surface Laptop that barely lasted a year.
Running games on any laptop, no matter how powerful or well-designed, is going to deplete its lifespan.
That said, Asus makes the best gaming laptops as far as I'm concerned. I got one for uni and gamed on it everyday, whether it was Civ V and VI, Borderlands II or DragonAge: a lot of high-graphics games for their era. That laptop lasted 6 years, and it only got too sluggish to run those games during its last year of life.
I meant durable as in not fragile, rather than lifespan length. I'd rather not have to replace it because it got damaged during a flight or fell from a small height.
Probably an uhelpful extreme, but since you want durability, you can check the Toughbook line of laptops. I think it's standard for them to have shock absorbers around the hard drive. Some models are bullet-proof. I had one for a few years, loved it - but I was playing DOS games on it. Rubber keyboard sucks, though.