The keyboard, battery and cooling on this machine is really bad though. Keyboard is designed for gamers, not humans (e.g. no back light on alternate letters at all). Battery only lasts 1-2 hours and is swollen.
I am looking for personal laptop with same or better GPU for work and gaming etc but won't get a Razer because of aforementioned reasons. I need Nvidia GPU to run StableDiffusion and other cool stuff which is only possible on Nvidia.
Any recommendation?
That was in early 2017, my 2013 mac mini gave up the ghost early this year and at about the same time the keyboard panel of the Alienware developed a bulge so it is no longer usable as a laptop but it is going strong being used like a desktop machine.
My take though is that all "desktop replacement" laptops have their batteries go bad and in a year or two they are good enough to run from one conference room to the next after that.
If you want an A.I. dev machine your best bet may be to build a desktop machine, I built one in January 2023 with a 16 core AMD processor case full of perforations, a glass side, RGB bling and an RTX 4080 because that's what I could get.
When I am on the go I log into it from a basic iPad with a cheap bluetooth keyboard and mouse, usually to use my RSS reader YOShInOn which is a web application but with RDP if I want to do something more.
My 2020 G14 is still kicking, no swolen battery or anything (though I ended up building an tiny "portable" 3090 desktop in a Node 202 for AI). If portability is a priority and price is not, Asus has somehow stuffed a mobile 4090 (aka a desktop 4080 die) into one of the new 14" G14 SKUs.
Also, if you are in the US, they regularly go for deep discounts in Best Buy, specifically. No idea why: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?id=pcat17071&sp=...