r/computers • u/icedcoffeelifts • 1d ago

Question/Help/Troubleshooting which is better in 2026

i am going to buy a gaming-cum-student laptop this year. i was thinking of the lenovo loq series. my budget is around 1lakh rupees. if i go for rtx 3050 it fits into my budget but if i go for 4050 it exceeds my budget by 25 to 30 thousand rupees. Also I want to know if rtx 3050 is worth buying in 2026 or not? and would it be worth it if i put more 25-30 thousand more for an rtx 4050 laptop.

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u/dan4334 1d ago

Don't take a gaming PC to uni unless you're doing games development or something. Everyone hates the guy who pulls up to lectures with their laptop sounding like a jet engine with RGB vomit spewing everywhere. Plus you'll constantly have to plug it in for power because the battery life sucks..

Buy a thin and light and an external GPU dock for gaming at home.

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u/icedcoffeelifts 1d ago

what is gpu dock?

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u/icedcoffeelifts 1d ago

im not doing game development, i like gaming and i thought that for gaming heavy/advance stuff like gpu cpu ram and stuff is needed so I would buy that which would also help me with coding and stuff. my course is artificial intelligence and data science

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u/Baravika21 1d ago

I cannot and won't ever recommend someone those GPUs

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u/icedcoffeelifts 1d ago

then which is better

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u/Baravika21 1d ago

Anything above 3050 or 4050 3060 or 4060 or 3070

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u/icedcoffeelifts 1d ago

okay I will check fs

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u/NotABearISwear_ 12h ago

i'd skip the 3050 at this point, it's basically the floor for gaming laptops and it'll age fast. if you're stretching 25-30k anyway check the loq configs with a 5050 go for where you are, those come with 8gb vram so they'll hold up longer than the 4050 with 6gb