Did I miss out in someway by not buying an i7 10th Gen laptop?

[Corrosion]

So long story short, I got a great gaming laptop with an Overclockable RTX 2060 (6 GB VRAM) , 32 GB RAM (I upgraded from 16) and an i7 9750H. This was a month and a half ago and I've managed to comfortably game for the first time in my life at 1080P. (Haven't given 144P a try yet, I don't have a monitor).

Now, the exact same laptop went on sale for approx ~100 USD less, and has an i7 10750H so is a newer model. This is kinda frustrating to me because well, the 10th Gen was much higher priced but there's a local sale here and so it's probably that... Just no different except in the generation.

A sort-of-shady sounding person on Reddit has offered to buy my laptop at the price of the new one - which doesn't make sense because he can just... Buy the new one from a retailer if he has that money?

What are your thoughts? I've grown to really like this laptop after tweaking thermals a bit but I am very prone to FOMO and fluff terms like "future proof". In any case, I'm hoping this laptop lasts me a while until the RTX 3000s laptops come out (as you can tell, I just need the portability even though I've always been a low spec desktop gamer and miss it, though not much with a BT kb+m)

[CravenCoyote]

If you like it, and it does the job, what's the problem?
Hardware is always going to fall in price as new hardware comes out

[Tristan]

It sounds u are happy with ur laptop
why ask around for things u dont need

if the laptop is doing everything u need it to do WHERE IS THE Problem ?

[Tristan]

@Elk Cloner LOL it looks like we were typing at the same time

ya I dont understand why is he putting him self under pressure

[Corrosion]

Elk Cloner님이 먼저 게시:

If you like it, and it does the job, what's the problem?
Hardware is always going to fall in price as new hardware comes out

Capri-Sun님이 먼저 게시:

It sounds u are happy with ur laptop
why ask around for things u dont need

if the laptop is doing everything u need it to do WHERE IS THE Problem ?

My apologies, maybe I should have phrased it better - is there a material difference that is worth "upgrading" so to speak between 9th and 10th? That's the gist of my query.

[Tomi Montana]

Sarcophagus님이 먼저 게시:

So long story short, I got a great gaming laptop with an Overclockable RTX 2060 (6 GB VRAM) , 32 GB RAM (I upgraded from 16) and an i7 9750H. This was a month and a half ago and I've managed to comfortably game for the first time in my life at 1080P. (Haven't given 144P a try yet, I don't have a monitor).

Now, the exact same laptop went on sale for approx ~100 USD less, and has an i7 10750H so is a newer model. This is kinda frustrating to me because well, the 10th Gen was much higher priced but there's a local sale here and so it's probably that... Just no different except in the generation.

A sort-of-shady sounding person on Reddit has offered to buy my laptop at the price of the new one - which doesn't make sense because he can just... Buy the new one from a retailer if he has that money?

What are your thoughts? I've grown to really like this laptop after tweaking thermals a bit but I am very prone to FOMO and fluff terms like "future proof". In any case, I'm hoping this laptop lasts me a while until the RTX 3000s laptops come out (as you can tell, I just need the portability even though I've always been a low spec desktop gamer and miss it, though not much with a BT kb+m)

I would stay away from the deal as it sounds like a scam..
There is not much of a differences between 10750H and your 9750H
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/201837/intel-core-i7-10750h-processor-12m-cache-up-to-5-00-ghz.html

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/191045/intel-core-i7-9750h-processor-12m-cache-up-to-4-50-ghz.html
If you compare both of them, 10750H IS better but it seems to be so small of a difference(clockspeeds and few other things) that I would not bother upgrading. I mean you will have the same amount of cores,threads,cache etc... so no point of upgrading

[Yamantaka]

Just be happy with your current laptop. It's fine. The difference between those two cpus is really minimal. You'd barely see any gains. Waiting for 3000 serie laptops and considering upgrading then sounds a lot better idea imo.

And if someone is offering you shady deal which is too good. Well, it often is too good to be true.

[Illusion of Progress]

Whenever you buy ANYTHING, you have to ask yourself "am I willing to pay this given price for it, right now". If the answer is yes, you buy it and enjoy it. If the answer is no, you don't.

Stuff always runs the risk of changing in price. It doesn't matter. It might seem unfortunate when it does (when it goes down, anyway), especially by a lot, right after a purchase, but that shouldn't impact your enjoyment from it. It's not like it's going to depreciate all the same by time you are done using it anyway.

Speaking of which, if you're already interested in a replacement when the RTX 3000 series released for laptops, you don't need any more "future-proofing" as CPU-wise, both would last similarly.

Lastly, everything since Sky Lake is Sky Lake. Okay, I'm minimizing the differences a bit, but for most intents, the newer CPU just would just potentially boost up ti between 300 MHz to 500 MHz higher under ideal situations, and is otherwise mostly the same exact CPU. Nice, but hardly make or break.

And both CPUs have the same price from Intel, but it's understandable third party sellers might have lowered the price of the one you got to sell it off in light of the newer offering alongside (or, they raised the price on the newer one instead, or some combination). So, either way, you, at the time, got a deal (or avoided being ripped off). Those should have cost similarly but they did not.

[WC4L420]

Honestly man, you don't buy laptops to change them out within a year. Its almost like a new car, once you leave the lot you've already lost 4k in value.

If dude is gonna pay purchase price on used goods then there something else going on. Maybe a PayPal charge back scheme. There is the off chance that person is straight dumb. But thats a slim chance.

I'd just stick with what you have and start building a desktop. Thats a fun rabbit hole to go down. That and you'd save your laptop from premature death by heat.

Even fallout 4 cranks my hp laptop to the 80c range while gaming. I have one of those 600ish dollar laptops they made last year with the lightup green keyboard, ryzen 5 and a 1050

[Frank ツ]

Why the hell would anyone buy a 2nd hand laptop for the price you paid for it?

NO ONE does that

[pasa]

New stuff is entering the market every year, beating the crap out of the previous gen. How could FOMO apply here at all? When not getting stuff now gets you much better stuff tomorrow at the same price?

Also you can't proof for the "future", just forget it as an aim. Or at least replace with a reasonably short period -- but that is still the suboptimal choice.

[hawkeye]

11th gen laptops are imminent, maybe not with rtx3000s. New cpu architecture. About 25% faster than i7 9750H and lower power consumption which means cooler. Overclocking in a laptop = heat which is undesirable.

[_I_]

lower power also means lighter (smaller battery) and/or longer battery life (more usage time between charges)

[Corrosion]

Pyramid Head님이 먼저 게시:

I would stay away from the deal as it sounds like a scam..
There is not much of a differences between 10750H and your 9750H
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/201837/intel-core-i7-10750h-processor-12m-cache-up-to-5-00-ghz.html

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/191045/intel-core-i7-9750h-processor-12m-cache-up-to-4-50-ghz.html
If you compare both of them, 10750H IS better but it seems to be so small of a difference(clockspeeds and few other things) that I would not bother upgrading. I mean you will have the same amount of cores,threads,cache etc... so no point of upgrading

Yamantaka님이 먼저 게시:

And if someone is offering you shady deal which is too good. Well, it often is too good to be true.

I see. This is helpful....

And as for the deal it is beginning to sound like a scam to me more and more too. The seller seems to be trying a bit too hard to convince me.

[Corrosion]

DirtyMeatSack님이 먼저 게시:

Honestly man, you don't buy laptops to change them out within a year. Its almost like a new car, once you leave the lot you've already lost 4k in value.

If dude is gonna pay purchase price on used goods then there something else going on. Maybe a PayPal charge back scheme. There is the off chance that person is straight dumb. But thats a slim chance.

I'd just stick with what you have and start building a desktop. Thats a fun rabbit hole to go down. That and you'd save your laptop from premature death by heat.

Even fallout 4 cranks my hp laptop to the 80c range while gaming. I have one of those 600ish dollar laptops they made last year with the lightup green keyboard, ryzen 5 and a 1050

Yes! I knew it shouldn't be swapped out even ideally within a year, much less a damn month; but ugh this is a bit annoying lol

I have always wanted to build a PC; but I really don't see any stability for me, location wise for the foreseeable future.

[A&A]

There is no need to update because 9th and 10th gens are like same and
i7 4790k vs i3 10100F vs Ryzen 3 3300X (LMAOOO... very low differents) What а great beautiful difference! How does AMD get past Intel! :D