Got it. This is an education trip for me ;-) Getting a desktop is not going to work: the gaming room / gym is in the attic while the study rooms and office for video editing is one floor down, so I don't feel like carrying a desktop up and down the stairs, connecting/disconnecting, etc. A laptop should work though (+ one of my daughter's school languages is in fact German, so a German keyboard is perfect). Would this one work for both video editing and gaming you think:
https://geizhals.de/lenovo-loq-15irh8-storm-grey-82xv00sqge-a3120205.html?hloc=at&hloc=de
Yep, it's a nice laptop!
12th Gen Intel Laptop CPUs are very good, awesome Single Core performance, which is important for gaming, especially Simracing.
The 4050 is pretty awesome! It basically has the performance of a laptop 3070 ti!
Die RTX 4050 ist der schwächste Vertreter der aktuellen Nvidia-Ada-Lovelace-Generation. Kann DLSS 3 die relativ schwache Leistung kompensieren?
www.pcgameshardware.de
I had a look at Notebookcheck, which are decent for laptop benchmarks.
In F1 2023, high preset at 1920x1080, the "Intel Iris XE 96 EU" that's inside your Mini-PC's i7-1260P, scores at about 25 fps.
The laptop-4050 scores at 143 fps!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here's a comparison chart for F1 '23 for different non-desktop GPUs:
Normally, the xx50 laptop-GPUs drop off a cliff compared to the xx60, but the 4050 is different. So yeah, I can happily recommend that laptop!
The laptop also has a 144 Hz display, which is nice for everything, especially racing.
Sadly, that laptop doesn't have a gsync compatible display, but at 144 Hz, it's pretty smooth without it, if you disable vsync
The good thing: The laptop-4050 is gsync compatible with external displays! Some "cheaper" laptop-GPUs were NOT gsync compatible in the past.
(the display syncs to the fps of the GPU, which makes things tearing free and stutter-free, as long as the fps don't drop too much)
Video editing should gain a lot too, since the laptop-4050 has the nvidia encoder, decoder and is CUDA compatible. Davinci on my desktop PC became a lot better when upgrading from my GTX 1070 to RTX 3080!
Just make sure that the Laptop has good ventilation on the bottom. Maybe put it on a little "laptop-stand", so the fans don't suck in all the dust from the surface it's sitting on and can work without much resistance. These gaming laptops need quite some wattage for their little size.