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Posted by Tabernacles E. Townsfolk (@billstrudel) on Oct. 20, 2025, 12:05 p.m.

Those are solid specs. I can’t say what a fair price would be given that I know only the DIY desktop market but it seems to be the lower tier of the premium line of Lenovo products (the Core i5 over an i3 chip and the discrete GPU lift this decidedly out of entry-level territory)

The 13th is now two generations old and I’m unfamiliar with their laptop conventions but this would presumably be equivalent to the i5-13400 on desktop. Presumably there’s an upper-midtier 1080p laptop out there that would have 32 GB RAM and the i5-13600 and RTX 5060 Ti. Anything higher is a waste for that screen size and resolution and likely tefresh rate. 13400/5050 should be perfectly sufficient for any of the most recent games at 1080p (Full HD), and should give good performance into the near-to-mid future, and probably better than anything you’ve ever had – I moved immedistely from Intel internal graphics in a Dell directly to a 3050, the equivalent place in the line two generations ago, and it was still night and day, graphics-wise. If you’ve only ever started Windows from a HDD you’re in for a treat loading it from SSD. For me it went from 2-3min to ten seconds. The GPU is current-gen btw. The upper-tier level id this would have a 1 or 2TB SSD; external HDDs can be has fir a penny per gugabyte if you don’t mind the speed. I don’t have any exteenal SSDs but internal runs about twice that per terabyte. Laptops are also made to accommodate additional NVMe SSDa (a 4TB Western Digital WD_BLACK SN850x is around $250 on Amazon, last-generation but the difference is irrelevant to gaming, that I just snatched up with birthdat monet.).

How are you enjoying it?