Single core, dual core, triple core etc

Some advice you probably don't need, but my understanding is that graphics cards are extremely overpriced right now.  For example, there's a 3080 on newegg going for $2100 and PS5s on amazon for over $1000.  If you aren't interested in gaming you might really be paying for performance right now that you don't really need if that laptop is being marketed to gamers.  

I'd be surprised if that doesn't run Logos really well.  But you could probably save some money if you don't want to game on it.  The link below if $600 cheaper and I would think it would run Logos fine.  I didn't spend that much time looking - you could probably find better deals.  Note the hard drive is half as large which might be an issue if you are putting a lot of media on it.  Don't get me wrong, the one you linked to is a much better machine - the processor is better, the GPU is better, and the hard drive is bigger.  But $600 is nice too.

New Lenovo Legion 5 17.3 FHD Laptop | AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | GTX1660Ti | 16G Memory | 512GB SSD | Backlit Keyboard | Windows 10 Home - Newegg.com

I tried to look up benchmarks, and it looks like even that the graphics card is about 30-40% slower than what I have on my desktop which I use for gaming.  I opened up verbum with the diagnostics screen on and tried to get the GPU utilization up and couldn't get my GPU utilization over 30%.  So to me even for a laptop an RTX 3060 seems like more than you need if you aren't gaming on it.  

I had to buy a laptop recently for one of my children, and a couple of other things I noticed:

1) They don't put DVD drives on most of them anymore.  Can be a rude shock if you're not expecting that, although my kids barely know what a DVD is.

2) Do you really want a 17 inch screen?  That seems big to me, but everyone has different preferences and I could see wanting something that big if you are using as your main PC.  I don't really like laptops and if I have to use one want it to be light and cool.  

Hopefully others who have bought laptops recently can weigh in and give you comparisons.  The laptops I've bought recently didn't have a graphics card which is a recommended spec.  

I just wanted to see if others such as yourself, have found Logos stacks up well with the Ryzen chip

Bootjack, I can't comment on the Ryzen, but I don't expect the CPU would be the big difference. It's moving to SSD that really makes Logos fly.

Since your previous Asus ROG is 8 years old, I'm guessing it used a spinning disk. The 1TB SSD in the new one you're looking at will make the stand-out difference.

I'm using a 17.3" and agree with you on the screen real-estate. I use the laptop screen for Logos, with whatever I'm working on open in Word on the external monitor (24" rotated to portrait). Laptop has 2 SSDs: 256GB system + 1TB for data. I thought 1TB would be plenty, but it's almost full with Logos (126GB), MS Flight Sim (160GB), and the rest of my data.

I have a legion 5 as well... with 2 extra screens on it... runs logos very well. Also have lenovo flex 5 which also has logos... I can tell the difference when its indexing. The legion is way faster. And the legion has a lot more ram in it, which also makes a difference... but the flex 5 is very usable. I've run logos on hp's, dell's and at least 3 different lenovo's . I cant put my thumb on why... but the Lenovos always do a better job

I am running Logos on a 9-year-old top-end Asus ROG 17". This baby has been around the world with me from jungles of Indonesia to deserts of...shall we say other places. It once fell from a ledge and sustained nothing more than ugly gashes in the cover. It has been upgraded to a good SSD (easy to do).  It is fast. But old.  I will be replacing it soon, but an SSD is your #1 friend with Logos.     

If you wonder why I travel with a seventeen inch 9-pound (??) behemoth laptop--that is question for another day--in short because it was better than traveling with a tower.

I should ask, when you do buy new, will you go with another ASUS Rog? 

I certainly will. Unless something better comes along. 

I also use a couple HP Spectre 360's. They are tiny, light, powerful, and versatile. Someday, I may once again get a desktop computer, but not till I settle down to one place.  

Ryzen 7 5800 chip

It has great single core performance but is not a single core chip. Logos will make use of the other cores. That is probably more powerful than you need for Logos.

does Logos use single core or dual core or anything above that. 

My laptop is a 3yo MSI GF63 8RD with I-7 8850H (6-core), 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, 2TB HDD, & NVIDIA GTX 1050Max. Although at 2.2GHz clock speed my user experience doesn't feel incredibly zippy it's always responsive (except when waiting on the web). I've found that having 6 cores means I just can't slow the laptop down. I can keep working while indexing the entire library (8,000+), which I timed at just over an hour (61 minutes & 12 seconds). I never notice while it's working away in the background. 

Blessings! IMO, any good (not even great) multi-core, 500GB or larger SSD, 16GB or larger RAM, & a video card with 2GB or greater will give you great performance in Logos (& almost anything else).

Bill, it appears you've got a heavy hitter machine on your desk. I would suspect that is Windows 11 upgradeable, correct? A

Hi Bootjack,

I buy at the knee of the price-performance curve (where the next bump up in how powerful the PC is costs a LOT more than the last bump). Each time I've done that, the pc or laptop has lasted a good 5+yr... It was a heavy hitter 3 yr ago (this month), but I don't think it'd be terribly expensive to buy a more powerful machine, today.

I don't think performance is REALLY zippy, but it doesn't bug me with slow performance. More than that I don't ask...

I am losing my eyesight. A few years back, before I started college, an agency bought me a laptop for school. I needed a big screen and I needed power to run the software that I was supposed to learn to use. A gaming laptop was purchased for me, without any input from me.

A gaming laptop was a HUGE mistake!!!

Hundreds of dollars was wasted on a graphics card that overheated and slowed the machine down and drained the battery.

The machine roasted itself while idling, and could not run any of the software that I was supposed to learn to use. More happened that I won't bother to discuss. The machine is long gone, but it taught me that I can never just assume that a gaming laptop will be able to run the most basic productivity software. I know, now, to do a lot of research in graphics cards if I am going to buy a gaming laptop.

The toy that I am using right now runs Logos so much better than "The Beast" could even idle.