• NightAuthor@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If she bought a gaming laptop specifically for work (this is the way you end up with a gaming laptop that’s not also your personal laptop) then it’s a silly, unnecessary, ill suited decision. There are other laptops with better battery life, cheaper, lighter, etc etc etc…. That fit the lawyer usecase better. Why would a lawyer buy a gaming laptop to lawyer?

    IANAL but I don’t think you need discrete graphics for lawyer applications. But who knows, maybe she’s running an ML model locally to tell her what to do.

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      1 year ago

      This lawyer might make lots of graphs oror presentations where a nice graphics card is useful, or the lawyer trusts the brand and bought the laptop she wanted.

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        1 year ago

        Unless she’s making ray-traced 3-d renderings of crime scenes, she’s doesn’t need a dGPU. If those are being made at all, they’d be coming from a SME.

        ‘Trusted brand’ I could buy, but then it’s still a bad choice because of this very conversation it’s sparked… it’s a distraction from her professional abilities.