Intel UHD is not suitable for anything 3D made after 2008.

Varies from processor to processor.

For example, Ryzen 5800H will go up to 105C, but Ryzen 6800H goes up to 95C.

Total dick move having an unpopulated SSD slot in the middle there. Thanks HP.

I guess this means stay away from any computer you haven’t seen opened up and verified that there are SSD slots inside.

I wonder if you could show me a single example of a manufacturer indicating what empty slots are inside of a computer on the specs page.

You basically have to read reviews to find out what’s actually inside of any given laptop model. And even then, you get variations.

The lag potentially caused by a laptop screen is the “Input Delay” type of lag, not the “Slowdown” type.

Possibly incompatible variations on the USB Power Delivery standard?

Probably bent pins or foreign object stuck in the card slot?

Good luck ever repairing any Apple product, considering they use cryptographic authentication to reject any part that isn’t approved. Screen, Battery, etc…

Either one can be run at 120Hz, and running at 120Hz is probably more useful than running at 144Hz.

Using a multiple of 60Hz helps eliminate judder for videos made for 30FPS or 60FPS, and 120Hz allows 24FPS video to run without judder as well. For comparison, a 144Hz screen must repeat a frame meant for 30FPS video 4.8 times. Because that’s not an integer, it’s a mix of holding a frame on the screen for 5 frames, or 4 frames. Judder.

Some games or other applications were also designed specifically with 60FPS in mind, so they might not like running at a refresh rate that isn’t a multiple of 60.

I think you probably have the age of the computer off by 10 years. 2000-era laptops would have been Pentium III machines maxing out at 800Mhz with 128MB of RAM, and would not have been able to run Windows 7.