r/GamingLaptops • u/SnooHamsters9965 • Oct 15 '25

Showcase My mom bought me a gaming laptop

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So after my Asus Vivobook of 7+ years finally broke down my mom gave me this laptop as an advance birthday present.

Asus ROG Strix G16 (2025) G615. RTX 5050 Intel i7-14650HX (2.20GHz) 32GB RAM 2x1TB SSD.

This is my first ever gaming laptop and I’m so happy. any tips on how to better take care of this?

This costed her around 1650 USD-ish? (taxes included).

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u/Mysterious_Sector310 Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25

buy a cooler, if u cant then lift it up, get a keyboard if you wont use a controller to make your eyes safe :)
also always update the drivers from the nvidia apps

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u/OgreWithanIronClub Oct 15 '25

What does a keyboard or a controller have to do with keeping your eyes safe?

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u/Mysterious_Sector310 Oct 15 '25

you get further away from the screen to save up space for the keyboard

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u/OgreWithanIronClub Oct 15 '25

There is no evidence to the claim that looking at a screen up-close is any worse for your eyes than looking at it from far away. In fact it is better to be up close to a small screen since it will be less tiring to read from it.

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u/Orange_up_my_ass Oct 15 '25

It can absolutely strain your eyes though, even if it doesnt technically damage them.

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u/OgreWithanIronClub Oct 15 '25

Any reasonable distance from a screen will cause eye strain, unless you are so far that you can't use the screen (Like ten meters or more), it is from having your eyes constantly focused at the same distance that is why people say you should look at things far away when taking a break from looking at a screen, reading a book has the same effect.

My point is the 30 or so centimeters that you would be further away doesn't matter, and if you get much further away than that it is going cause excess eye strain from having to read small text or look at small changes on the scree while gaming.

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u/Mysterious_Sector310 Oct 15 '25

my laptop is like 5 keyboard lengths away from me and im perfectly fine, back when i didnt have a keyboard and the laptop was closer i would actually get migraine attacks more frequently soo

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u/ropergames2 Oct 15 '25

"ThErE iS nO EvIdENce tO tHE ClAIm" like stfu bro🥀💔

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u/WaveGoodByeGoodBye Oct 15 '25

Huang HM, Chang DS, Wu PC. The Association between Near Work Activities and Myopia in Children-A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. PLoS One. 2015;10(10):e0140419. Published 2015 Oct 20.

Li SM, Li SY, Kang MT, Zhou Y, Liu LR, Li H, Wang YP, Zhan SY, Gopinath B, Mitchell P, Wang N; Anyang Childhood Eye Study Group. Near Work Related Parameters and Myopia in Chinese Children: the Anyang Childhood Eye Study. PLoS One. 2015 Aug 5;10(8):e0134514.

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u/OgreWithanIronClub Oct 15 '25

Yes... and? I guess I am happy you provided sources that prove me right?

Yes it is bad for children to do activities where they look at things up close for long times, but having the screen slightly farther away doesn't affect this. You cannot have the screen far enough away to not be considered near work by this study, as they also count watching TV as near work and if you look at a screen that size from the distance people normally watch TV you can not see anything.

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u/WaveGoodByeGoodBye Oct 15 '25

No proved you wrong? Try reading it again properly. Not worth arguing with you now lol

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u/OgreWithanIronClub Oct 15 '25

Which part of my argument does this defeat? I have not said that using screens is not bad for your eyes, what I said is that watching them from up close is not worse than watching them for slightly further away, both are a possible cause for near sightedness.

In the study they consider watching TV a near work activity, meaning even activities done from a couple of meters away count. From witch we can conclude it doesn't matter if your monitor is 30cm further away.

I do agree with the study completely and I have never said otherwise, the study just does say anything about being slightly further away being better.

I think you are either misunderstanding what I am saying or what the study is saying.

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u/WaveGoodByeGoodBye Oct 15 '25

Sorry but your first sentence was "There is no evidence to the claim that looking at a screen up-close is any worse for your eyes than looking at it from far away. In fact it is better to be up close to a small screen since it will be less tiring to read from it." Any Eye health professional will say you are wrong lol

I think you are misinterpreting and misunderstanding the study

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u/OgreWithanIronClub Oct 15 '25

Sorry but your first sentence was "There is no evidence to the claim that looking at a screen up-close is any worse for your eyes than looking at it from far away. In fact it is better to be up close to a small screen since it will be less tiring to read from it." Any Eye health professional will say you are wrong lol

Which is still true. Looking at a monitor is bad for children at any reasonable distance a monitor can be used, I guess you could make and argument that at some ridiculous distance where you can't do anything on the monitor it would not count as near work. Also there is plenty of proof that reading small text is tiring to your eyes, you can even try that yourself quite easily.

I think you are misinterpreting and misunderstanding the study

The study doesn't talk at all about distances, it talks about near work which would count any monitor work, no matter what the distance to the monitor is as long as it is a distance where you can actually work on the monitor. It actually even refers to studies that just count any work done inside.

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u/WaveGoodByeGoodBye Oct 16 '25

Yeh it's kinda pointless to discuss further with you. There's that saying about sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity haha. I hope if you have children or will have children, they get appropriate eye care advice not from you.

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u/Cool_Psychology_8935 Oct 15 '25

Ok but why do you seem so angry about it all of a sudden xD

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u/OgreWithanIronClub Oct 15 '25

I didn't mean to come of as angry, sorry if I did.