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Do yourself a favour and buy a decent PC.
If you're completely set on a laptop, and there's nothing wrong with that, you'll want at least an RTX 3060 for the GPU and a more modern CPU, preferably an i7 or Ryzen 7, to provide an enjoyable experience on low/medium settings.
Correct. To be fair, it might be technically playable, but it will be far worse than a decent-specced desktop PC. The 1650 is an entry-level mobile graphics card, it's a rough equivalent to an Nvidia 1060, i.e. dated by three generations at least by now. It will be further hampered by a weak CPU and poor cooling system.
Even the display is a measly 15" 1080p IPS. I've last seriously played on a 15" display in 1990-s, i.e. over 22 years ago. Now my desktop monitor is a 48" OLED 4K 120hz HDR display, which is absolutely in another galaxy. Even my ultrabook has a 4K OLED display.
The Asus TUF lineup is a lower-tier product aimed at gamers who play competitive, undemanding games like CS:GO, where everything is turned down to achieve maximum FPS (and even for that, one version of the TUF is useless because of the 60 hz display). A graphics-intensive game like Hogwarts Legacy would probably require turning visuals way, way down to achieve even barest performance.
There IS a lot wrong with that. A laptop will never be comparable to a similarly priced desktop in terms of both performance and image quality. Laptops suffer from atrocious cooling and weak power supply, and usually don't even offer highest tier GPUs because they wouldn't be able to support them adequately (and if they do, it's just a marketing trick, because the GPU will be bound by the design and architecture bottlenecks of the laptop).
Furthermore, laptop displays are vastly inferior to desktop monitors, firstly because of screen space (again, that 15" diagonal is measly by today's standards), secondly because of matrix quality (both IPS and TN suck for various reasons when compared to modern OLED) and thirdly because of low resolution (since your graphic system won't be able to support 4k gaming, so even if you buy a laptop with a 4k screen you'll likely have to play at 1440p or lower, which will look atrocious because it's not a native resolution).
"Enjoyable" experience on "low-medium settings"? You must be joking. Just throw this laptop idea out of the window and buy a good desktop PC. Laptops are for work and travel, that's their only role.
thanks for your polite and generous help
I live in my flat when working, which doesn't stop me from having a full-sized desktop PC with a huge monitor, VR headset etc. It doesn't take up more space than a normal writing desk with a chair, which you would anyway be using with a laptop.
You could use a variable-height gaming table, which would allow you to play standing or sitting at the push of a button. Or, you could simply move your gaming monitor and peripherals, which will weigh less than a "gaming laptop".
Truth hurts sometimes, and I have answered your question truthfully. You very likely won't get good performance out of that laptop for this particular game, and you shouldn't believe the "gaming laptop" meme/marketing trick.
Unfortunately that's probably about the price you'll have to pay for a laptop that won't struggle to run this game at 1080p. Don't listen to anyone that says you can't play games well on a laptop though, you absolutely can
There is a ton wrong with that sentence already. Some laptops may be fine for playing some games on certain settings, but that doesn't mean they are generally a good choice for a gaming machine. For a given price, the laptop will always lose out to the desktop, and the best desktops will always outperform the best laptops by a huge margin.
For this particular game, which is clearly pretty intensive in terms of visuals, the TUF 15 laptop will likely not provide good performance. It will probably require a lot of fiddling and turning settings down to even run at acceptable fps. You can forget about 4k, 120+ fps or HDR, which are the de-facto standards for current gen gameplay. You will also be limited to a tiny 15" display with an inferior matrix.
The OP literally asked for our opinions.
The OP literally asked whether playing this game on that laptop was a good idea. The advice not to use laptops as gaming machines is eminently useful in my view, it will save money and provide a more enjoyable gaming experience in the long term.
An alternative would be to suggest to the OP to sell that laptop and buy a new "gaming laptop" which will cost 3-4 times as much... and still provide worse performance than a cheaper desktop PC.
It is perfectly useful, especially for people who "don't know much about computers" like the OP. Despite all the marketing, laptops are by definition inferior to desktops for gaming, due to their fundamental architectural limitations, not to mention higher price. So the best solution is not to fall for the meme in the first place, and buy a decent gaming desktop PC instead of an expensive and inferior "gaming laptop".
Dude, I've been gaming for over 30 years. I first started on a 286 PC, and now own a complete ASUS ROG desktop set with a Strix 3090. Over the years I've had four different laptops, my current is an HP Spectre x360 i7-750H with 16 GB RAM and NVidia GTX 1650 Ti discrete graphics card with 4 GB VRAM. By all specs, it is better than the OP's TUF 15 laptop. However, I do not run graphics intensive games on the ultrabook for the simple reason, even this expensive device is leagues and bounds behind my desktop pc. It has a 4k screen, but can't really run visually intensive games at 4k.
Don't take my word for it. Here's an unbiased review of the TUF 15 1650GTX:
https://www.pcgamebenchmark.com/asus-tuf-gaming-f15-review
As you can see, even back then, several years ago, it could only run less than half of 1000 top PC titles. Hogwarts Legacy is a 2023 graphically intensive game. Chances are high that it will not run well, or perhaps at all, on this laptop.
I don't like it when people are deceived when it comes to price/performance ratios of products or services. The "gaming laptop" idea can work in two cases: a) you are a gamer who plays only low-demand games (like CS:GO) which do not tax the machine; b) you pay through the nose for a top-notch "gaming laptop" just so you can play most games at mediocre settings, but never at the same level as a cheaper desktop PC. The OP's case is neither of those: the laptop in question is a dated mid-range affair, and the game in question is an AAA (?) title with very intensive graphics and probably bad optimisation (to be expected from a multi-platform release).
So the answer to the OP's question is a) "probably not", and b) "you should look into desktop PCs instead of buying into the gaming laptop meme".
60 fps is not current gen gaming. Anything lower than 120 fps is too low.
Also, even the most expensive laptops have pitifully small screens, on par with 20+ years old PCs. And good luck finding one with 4K OLED HDR (I did, but they are rare and expensive).
First of all, the 3070 is a low-end graphics card, to begin with, so LOL at the comparison.
Second, when you say "about as fast" you must mean "greatly slower than the desktop 3070". Watch this actual live comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1fYh2Ll04I
The 3070 shows consistently higher performance by a significant margin.
Third, a laptop with 3080 Ti and an OLED display would cost around $4,000. For that money, you could buy a vastly superior desktop PC which would outperform it on every level by a mile and have a much bigger and better screen, and also have money left over for a decent travel laptop without "gaming" ambitions (if you even need one for work).
It seems you're the one who doesn't know anything, chum.