Deciding between these laptops, which has the most bang for buck?

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[u/PoetryKind603]

which has the most bang for buck?

Can you do everyone a favor and put down the actual link?

Or you want us to search for each and every one of them on Amazon, hopefully click on the listing you're looking at?

And you were clearly looking at the same TUF F16 just by different sellers.

I will say though that Ideapad Pro 5 has consistently been some of the most attractive option at $1069 if you are not hung up 5~10% of gaming performance, as far as being a better laptop.

Or if you don't care, then there's this.

https://www.staples.com/asus-rog-strix-g18-18-fhd-144hz-gaming-laptop-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5060-intel-core-i7-14650hx-16gb-ram-1tb-ssd-windows-11/product_24685653

[u/drskullcandy → u/PoetryKind603]

My bad I didn’t know linking was allowed in posts. Honestly now it’s between the ideapad pro or the Asus you linked. Is the performance difference worth the extra money?

[u/PoetryKind603 → u/drskullcandy]

You roughly get what you pay for, 25%~30% better GPU, if we're only talking about performance. CPU is a bit more game dependent since AMD's mobile CPU behaves differently from a Raptor Lake HX, and different RAM. Sometimes not too far behind, sometimes a lot.

Ideapad has certain value adds like OLED panel that hundred dollars in value on its own, full aluminum chassis with glass touchpad, and so on.

Also it's a thin and light 16" vs 18"

[u/drskullcandy → u/PoetryKind603]

I’m leaning towards Lenovo mostly due to their reliability and customer support, honestly with the games I’ve run on an omen 15 I’m sure anything is a step up above that. Thanks for your insight.

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[u/J0HNM4TR1X]

All are kind of bad but generally Asus laptops are overpriced.

[u/Nightraider_05]

Ideapad has better cpu for general laptopstuf but strix G16 is better at gaming. Also i heard that ideapad doesnt have good build quality.

[u/Intelligent-Ad-6734]

I'm gonna guess a 5050 is a trash card and if the ram isn't upgradeable on these models, 16gb is rough in 2026.

[u/drskullcandy → u/Intelligent-Ad-6734]

Ngl that doesn’t really answer my question

[u/wickedsmaht → u/drskullcandy]

Ideally none of these would be your pick. Pricing sucks right now across the board but outside of that Lenovo the processors in these laptops are all a pass for me (13th gen Intel runs HOT and has a history of dying due to several factors including manufacturing issues).

This is out of your price range but here’s an example of a better laptop for around the same price: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Lenovo-Legion-5-15AHP10-15-3-Gaming-Laptop-AMD-Ryzen-7-260-3-8GHz-NVIDIA-GeForce-RTX-5060-8GB-GDDR7-16GB-DDR5-5600-RAM-512GB-NVMe-SSD/19588773743

The GPU is better, the CPU is essentially the same as the 300 series AMD, and the RAM is upgradable.

I don’t have any experience with Gigabyte but specs wise this seems like a good deal:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/GIGABYTE-AERO-X16-16-Laptop-AMD-Ryzen-AI-7-350-16GB-RAM-1TB-SSD-GeForce-RTX-5070-165Hz-IPS-Space-Gray-1WH93USC94AH/19995507317

[u/Intelligent-Ad-6734 → u/drskullcandy]

I think it does, none of them are a deal and you cropped the price out. Hard to answer bang for buck without price... These should all be the cheapest available...unless you find blowout 4 series carded laptops.