There is one game that still works - Galactic civilizations 3, in terms of framerate when in the game, its as good as it ever was - runs fine... the issue is getting games to run in the first place, for example, 3 months ago Aven Colony would run on this machine.... now it crashes on load.

Where i get the most trouble is with regular office work. Simple tasks like changing a file name or moving a file, the computer has to think about it for 10/20 seconds. If i scan a document and dare to move that document to the desktop, i am going to be waiting at least 1 minute! Average scan size 100/200kb

given my own experiences with this, my guess would be drive or memory issues then. still, the usb thing is a means to test outsideof windows issues.

I just went and played Galciv3 again just to check... It is running crap, on medium map, its got 'sticky mouse' which made me deploy a starbase in the wrong location! Useless.

Clean the insides of your laptop it has crap in it or take it to a computer shop and get them to clean it!

Just make sure they don't find your pr0n collection.

Also screw laptop gaming BUY A DESKTOP!

Hard to travel with a desktop!
But, i dont know why everyone has to have these waifer thin laptops, and miniaturizing high performance to fit into that multiplies the cost.... if i had my way, i would be perfectly happy with a good old fashioned 50mm thick laptop that has great performance and is cheap because it does not need such high miniaturization, but the market barely recognizes that kind of configuration... i have to go to the refurbished market to find them.

Yes!

Meh. For that kind of price, you can get a good laptop with a considerably better GPU. Tell your boss that that Acer Nitro struggles even with years old games like 2015 The Witcher 3, and we can't have that:

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-RX-560X-Laptop-GPU.301586.0.html

Only 22 fps at Ultra settings in 1920x1080 resolution, and 36 fps in High settings? Look at some laptop with e.g. NVidia 2060 GPU, they seem pretty good. Like the Acer Predator Helios 300 I mentioned before, or if you want a bit lighter but equally fast laptop, maybe ASUS Zephyrus G14? (Note though that ASUS Zephyrus line is one of those "extra thin" laptop series.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B83xurNIX4E&t=586s

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-rog-zephyrus-g14-14-gaming-laptop-amd-ryzen-9-16gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-rtx-2060-1tb-ssd-moonlight-white/6403816.p?skuId=6403816&intl=nosplash

2060 GPU can run e.g. The Witcher 3 at Ultra settings in 60 fps.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-RTX-2060-Laptop-Graphics-Card.384946.0.html

You and me, buddy. I don't quite get this obsession to try to make all laptops as thin as possible, and it doesn't help that the online laptop reviews always give lots of plusses for thinness.

Like the 1999€ Zephyrus (17") that I decided NOT to buy due to its thinness. I'd much rather buy a 15" gaming laptop that can be 4x thicker (if not more), as long as the cooling is ok.

I presume his/her boss meant that he goes to buy a laptop and sends the bill to the company.

That is quite normal in smaller businesses which don't buy IT stuff for their workers centralized. If I need a new laptop or phone or monitor or mouse at my work, I'd first ask my boss if that is ok and then my boss would tell me to go buy one and then send a bill to him, possibly giving me a rough upper limit what it can cost.

Just buy a new one, faster pc-s makes you more productive and less frustrated-> even more productive.
Yeah every boss asks you to buy one and just give them the bill, if not then leave that job asap.

Do you really think using a work laptop for gaming is a good idea? Aside from unprofessionalism having games installed on a work machine, if those things your installing have trojans or what not, you could open your business to serious security risks. I would highly recommend to separate personal and work.

I would avoid a Ryzen from before the 4000 series unless you want to and can get under AUD1100 or so. Slowish and bad battery life, no thank you. Now the new 4000 is a different thing. Always check reviews that the cooling is sufficient! Checking specifications and getting only 50% in reality of what the CPU and GPU should be capable of because of bad cooling is not fun.

ADD: Also agree whith what the post above mine says but it also depends a bit on your work,

That really depends on the workplace and what your profession is. At my former workplace we used to play Quake 3, CS 1.6 and other multiplayer games when we had time to kill. We were still "professional" and took our job seriously (and first), but once in a while when the work load was low we took the time to have some fun. I always enjoyed that way more than these parties with beer and booze.

Actually, while we didn't have problems with our computers, our costumers very often had problems with viruses and worms. Some people just mindlessly click on anything they see without thinking...

Also, I would never use that much money on a laptop anyway just to play on 60fps on ultra. Laptops are best for mobility and light gaming (unless ones job is encoding/decoding or graphic/sound design).

Do you even have a Ryzen 2. or 3. gen.? They are not slowish with bad battery, far from it. My "weakest" work laptop is a Ryzen 3 2200U (it is cheaper than these really slow Pentium M and Celeron CPU's) and the fact that it can run Witcher 3 and have battery for a work day (not gaming of course) says a lot about these Ryzen APU's.

But I agree, Radeon RX 560X is pretty weak for its price.

I wouldn’t use a lawyer which turned up and had worms on his desktop. Don’t know what industry you worked in, but most I have seen lock down work computers so users can’t install things. It’s not just your option of the work you do being professional, it’s others parties opinions. Anyways, I am sure your “costumers” we’re satisfied ;o)
As for laptops, you can pick up refurbished dell ultra books for next to nothing, I picked one up last year for £150.

While generally a sound advice, depends on the line of work, and what you keep on the laptop (from your work). Of course if one asks their boss, naturally they say no, just to be on the safe side. And in many companies it is very much against the rules.

Anyway, I don't keep any work files etc. on my laptop, they are on the servers to which I take a RDP connection. Naturally I'd never install any pirated stuff to the work laptop (both for security reasons and so that my employer would not get into trouble for company machines containing unlicensed software), but somehow I trust e.g. GOG games enough that I don't consider them as a security risk that would try to sniff my VPN or RDP passwords or whatever. Generally I use similar common sense when installing a (GOG) game, as I would use when installing some useful non-gaming utility like 7-zip or SpaceSniffer on my work laptop.

While I do have a separate personal gaming laptop as well, it is just easier that if I go somewhere (abroad or whatever) where I have to take the work laptop, I wouldn't have to carry a second (gaming) laptop there as well. In a way I consider it like my work phone: I don't have a separate private phone, and yes I have installed even some Android games on my work phone.

How many worms have you received from e.g. GOG game installers? Naturally one has to use common sense, just like when installing anything even on their home PC. I wouldn't want worms on my home PC either, go figure. Even with those locked-down PCs, some might still visit pr0n-sites or whatever, even during worktime.

Yes when I worked in e.g. a bank, the PCs were very much locked and didn't allow installation of software of your own. Then again in a couple of smaller companies, it is much more relaxed and they trust me to use common sense, which I do.

I am much more concerned that I'd accidentally install some unlicensed software which if e.g. free for personal use but not in a corporate machine (and my employer somehow getting into trouble due to that), than that I'd receive malware from GOG games.

Do you also have a separate private phone from your work phone? I don't, and I am sure I wouldn't trust a lawyer whose work phone has worms in it.