I bought my MSI GS66 because it was powerful but the only "gamer aesthetic" it had was an RGB keyboard.
The MSI software was pretty rough to use but its no longer been a problem since I put OpenSUSE on it
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What it looks like is pretty much at the bottom of my priorities when buying a laptop, I guess I’d err towards spaceship but not at the cost of something else.
I would never buy a gaming laptop. Instead I'd buy a SFF PC
That being said, of course there are many cases (frequent travellers) for whom a gaming laptop makes more sense, but for someone just going between home and college every few months or a similar arrangement, a SFF PC can fit in your luggage pretty easily and will be more powerful and cheaper due to having more space to push out heat and being made from a collection of upgradable parts.
My personal pick for most situations that I described would be an SFF PC for the more intensive things like gaming, rendering etc, and then a thin and light cheap laptop with no dedicated graphics for your carry laptop.
Do you use a portable monitor with it?
For this type of setup, you typically just bring a regular monitor that stays at the location your frequent.
Thats why I said its really for when you are back and forth between 2 locations not super frequently/doesnt work for frequent travellers do different places.
If you need a portable monitor for your usecase, I'd guess that a SFF PC might not be the better pick vs a gaming laptop for that user.
No Clevo laptops huh. They're about as plain as they get, since they're mostly meant for resellers like XMG/Xotic/whoever sell them in other regions.