I mean the battery life could be better (i have one) but other then that its a great laptop good for rendering

It’s another one of those ‘not-so-portable and keep on your desk’ gaming laptops. If you don’t have a desktop at home and don’t want to buy one, then the Victus 16 can be a good laptop to plonk on your desk, keep it plugged in at all times and work and play all day long.

The HP Victus 15 is excellent for use as a workstation. Its Intel 12th Gen. CPUs and NVIDIA discrete GPUs can handle demanding tasks like video editing and 3D rendering. It loses some performance under load but doesn’t get hot or loud.

I hv the victus 15 with rtx 2050. Id say its performed great overall other than the battery life, which just totally sucks. Even doing words n browsing the internet is not going to give u much extra time. Idk if it’s the problem with all gaming laptops, but yeah, that’s my experience.

I’d consider a normal dell laptop, not a gaming heavy brick

So RAM and storage are upgradable. If you can save money by finding a lower RAM and storage spec machine with other features, I would do that.

You’re gonna regret buying a 5-8lb laptop for student usage. Buy something in the thin and light category, and also don’t worry about high refresh rate. Maybe look at the Acer Swift 3 OLED

The HP Victus is a great laptop however depending the model you’re getting, the screen may not be that color accurate. The gaming laptop aspects to it allows you to have a much more powerful CPU along with a dedicated GPU for some gaming on the side at high graphics (Medium graphics on some triple A games).

As a fellow HP Victus user, it’s overall a pretty great laptop. I use it for my daily tasks and overall it does the job along with allowing me to game on the side. I highly recommend looking into AMD models though as they offer better battery life compare to Intel models.