New Laptop Recommendation

Have an old dell xps 15 9550 with specs of


i5-6300hq
1tb nvme ssd
32gb ram
intel hd graphics 530
nvidia geforce gtx 960m
84whr battery



My laptop processor is still considered okay to use nowadays or is it a bit old? My graphics card is very old right? I looked at dell site and the older dell xps 9510 and current 9520 is what they are selling. I see they have the i7 11th or 12th generation and also 3050 or 3050ti. But the 9520 seem to cost at least 700 dollars more. Its $1600+tax for the xps 9510 and $2049+ for the xps 9520.

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Are these laptops below worth it? Is it worth paying that much for the xps 9520 than the xps 9510?



Some of them graphics card are 3050 or 3050ti or 3060. Which would you recommend from these? I do see there are cheaper gaming laptops though but just posting the better ones here. All these laptops are 15' except the Asus G14 which is 14'. But I would be using it plugged in with external monitors. Which of these would you recommend or not recommend? I heard very mixed reviews about Dell Ryzen Gaming laptop.



But are gaming laptops better avoided if you don't play games? It runs hot mostly? Do all these laptops have bad battery if it has at last a 3060 graphics driver? But the dell xps 15 is not a gaming laptop right even though it has either 3050 or 3050ti? Would it be foolish to buy another xps since i heard they are overpriced and for something like the 9520, you can't even get 3060 graphics card compared to the gaming laptops? I plan to use this laptop plugged in almost all the time with 2 external monitors.


The other reason I want to stick with the xps is because I currently have two PW7015L powerbanks with my dell xps 15 9550. So if i get a non dell xps laptop, then there aren't much powerbanks for it? If i get the dell xps 15 9510 or 9520, I see the powerbank they use is usb c but mine is not. Could i buy an adapter and use my 2 PW7015L with it though? I obviously wouldn't want to buy 2 more PW7018 powerbanks with the new xps laptop which I see that is what they use for it.





Also I see there are other laptops like


Older Dell XPS 9510

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/lapt...15-9510-laptop

$1600+tax


Dell XPS 9520

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/lapt...15-9520-laptop

$2049+tax with i7 configuration and 32gb ddr5



Dell G15 Ryzen Edition

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell...op/gn5515eyuch

$1100+tax


Lenovo Slim 7

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo-...?skuId=6470819

$1350+ tax on sale from $1550


Lenovo Legion 5

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo-...?skuId=6455136

$1200+tax



Asus G14

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-ro...?skuId=6494638

$1400+ tax on sale from $1650

The main problem IMO is that $2049+tax for that Dell XPS 15 with an i7-12700H and 32GB DDR5 is way too expensive if you consider the fact that the Asus ROG Flow (X16 and Z13 models) let you use the Asus XG Mobile family of external GPUs, that, performance wise, beat all these so-called "gaming laptops" to a pulp, like, every day of the week and twice on Sunday. lol

Yea the new xps 9520 seem ridiculously expensive. So which of the choices I mentioned would be good? What about just the xps 15 9510? However, you can't customize it and it seem to be OLED screen only which would give it less battery? I am using it lugged with 2 external monitors but wouldn't want a laptop with lesser battery. Because isn't for any 15.6' laptop, FHD is the best?


I would need minimum i5 or i7 or ryzen 5 or ryzen 7 right? What about graphics card though? If i don't play games but do something related to that which uses gpu, would the minimum i need be 3050 or 3050ti ? Or 3060?


Also is it true if any laptop has a 3060, the battery will always be worst than a laptop with no graphics card like that? How is it compared to 3050 in terms of battery? But if you aren't using that gpu, then the battery will be just as good if its using the default graphics card?

https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/om...top-16-b1797nr

But like I said, ROG X16 Flow with XG Mobile blows it away. Completely.