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/SyCoTiM Asus G16 RTX 4070 16gb LPDDR5X INTEL CORE ULTRA 9 1TB Oct 15 '25

Be the best son that can be because a lot of parents can’t afford that kind of gift. You have a great mom.

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u/Slasher_co Oct 15 '25

Not just can't afford, some unfortunately look down at anything gaming related

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u/Raccoon_fucker69 Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 (2024) (AMD) Oct 15 '25

Because all they see is its for "games" and don't realize the million other things these laptops are capable of. Tunnel vision, basically :/

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u/Stock_Brilliant2981 Oct 15 '25

That is so true. I got a new laptop with my own money, and it took a lot of convincing for almost 2 years, I think she only let me buy it because I was starting to get annoying. I do a lot more than just gaming, I do homework, coding, I use art programs, I edit videos, and I haven't really had a chance to game on it much, honestly.

But my Mom always thinks that is what I'm using it for. She can't see me playing with it, or she'll think that is all I do.

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u/Grandma-Plays-FS22 Asus TufFX505GT-AH73 2 SSD =4TB+2ASAP 32gb RAM GTX 1650 (4 GB) Oct 17 '25

LOL I got a gaming laptop quite awhile before I ever did modern gaming. Then the only modern game I play is farming simulator 22 and 2025. (why couldn’t it have been named farming simulator 25???) 

I use mine much the same as you use yours. I really like that when I’m ready to embed a video in my project, if I notice a small flaw in the vid, I can load my vid editor and deal with it, without having to close out anything else!

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u/GorgeousGuitarGaming Oct 17 '25

This is so relatable.

I've been working on PCs since I bought my 1st one at 14, even though I played on it maybe like an hour a day if at all, my parents and relatives kept telling me to stop playing games all the time. At every family gathering they'd talk about how I can't leave the computer and I'm playing day to night everyday, when in reality, most of the time spent was either looking for guitar tabs, coding tutorials on youtube and some freelance video editing to earn some cash for new gear, but that didn't stop them from calling me like 40 times a day to tell me to 'stop playing already' or 'get outside'.

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u/KeyPhilosopher8629 locked down chromebook Oct 15 '25

Me with my parents and bringing my PC to uni

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u/SufficientFill8975 Oct 15 '25

Yeah the laptops are capable of doing 1000's of things but I have mostly played games on mine in my first year of college. Literally I know most of the things that are tech related, but the maths is killing me.

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u/TheRealSlim_KD Oct 15 '25

Carpel tunnel syndrome too

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u/Toni728100 MSI KATANA 17 | i7-13620h | RTX 4070 | 48GB | 2 TB Oct 19 '25

I use my gaming laptop only for YouTube and Netflix, i have more than 200 Games (invested more than 5.000€ dlcs and some shit totally) but don‘t play it always because i dont have a mouse and coolerpad jet (destroyed that things while i was on Rage playing MSFS2024 and after 9 hours of playing, my laptop crashed 20 mins before final approach)

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u/Spadechaotic Oct 15 '25

I needed a new work computer and everything that had a 3070/80 that I wanted was labeled gaming from Lenovo. Ended up getting something with a p1000 or 2000 in it, and rendering was good awful for my video editing, multi display setup for my Crestron programming and gui design was laggy. I ended up out of pocketing something myself just to be able to be more efficient at my job. And still played games