There are laptops designed for creatives, and there are laptops built for gamers, and they tend to be very similar. You stick a multi-core CPU and a mid-range GPU in a chunky black chassis, top it with a screen that’s a step up from the 1080p 60Hz panels of the budget models, and file it in one category or another depending on whether it has aggressive styling and RGB lights or not. In practice, this means a gaming laptop will make an excellent creative machine, as the ability to push pixels doesn’t discriminate over whether it’s beautiful minimalist pages or the latest texture-mapped polygons.
Take a laptop such as the Gigabyte G6X in its 2024 incarnation. It comes with an Intel i7 CPU - not one of the very latest, but a respectable 13th-gen model - plus 32GB of RAM and a GPU from Nvidia’s GeForce 4000 series. That’s a solid base for Lightroom and InDesign as well as playing the latest games, and with a full-size HDMI 2.1 port for an external monitor, plus 10Gbps USB for connecting to external storage, the G6X could be exactly what you need.
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