I need good gaming laptop. I'll use this laptop mainly for programming, compiling, running a lot of virtual machines and creating computer graphics.

Which laptop is better? Lenovo Legion Y530 i7 32G 512SSD + 1TB GTX1060 or Lenovo Legion Y720 15.6 i7 16GB SSD512+1TB GTX1060?

Link to the auction: https://allegro.pl/oferta/lenovo-leg...060-7989329973, https://allegro.pl/oferta/lenovo-leg...ant=7811814251

I want to be able use laptop for a long time without need to repair anything.

If there's a way to get the website offer in English, that would help, as this forum probably won't have too many Polish speakers. If there's a version in English, French, Italian, Spanish, or Greek I can help more.

From what I saw, it looks like the second one has a slightly better monitor, and the first one is better on the RAM and CPU. The graphics cards look the same to me. Personally I'd take the first, but maybe you want a better resolution on your screen. Also, I'd look up the compatibility of the components involved for Linux, assuming you'd use it for that. Nvidia cards can be a pain for Linux users - Linus Torvalds himself has a famous YouTube clip where he directs spoken and gestured vulgarities towards Nvidia

Is 16 GB RAM enough or is it better to buy 32 GB RAM version of the second assuming I'll be running a lot of virtual machines, IDE, Firefox, Unreal Engine and Blender?

English links:
- https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo....379946.0.html
- https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo....218710.0.html

There is no such thing as too much RAM.

In my experience messing with VMs 16 GB of RAM usually is sufficient; I've been able to run every version of Windows from 1.0 to 10 in VirtualBox at once without running out on my machine. My (especially before getting an SSD) hard disk read/write speeds and occasionally the CPU usage (with an i7 from 2 years ago) usually get me before the RAM does in the VM department.

I don't game enough to fully attest to the RAM requirements there. For Blender, I've run into trouble working with really deep complex models of Apollo and had to add extra swap on the fly, but for anything not too ridiculous 16 GB has sufficed. Developing isn't too bad, although virtual reality is just a little above my thing's league without a nice NVIDIA card. Most of the VR rigs I see at NASA have like 64+ GB of RAM too.

The English version you posted has differing specs on the RAM and the display than the ones in Polish

If you're big into gaming, does it have to be a laptop?

Your problem is, they need you to get more than 30 seconds out of the battery, so potential cores goes way down in cpu and video. CPUs are usually low wattage models. Mine is 35W, and potential exists for 55W, but it's expensive.

On a motherboard, you can stuff in a really decent cpu, & separate GPU if it takes your fancy. We've had posts here from guys with 4 and even one from a guy with 8 monitors! It's impossible to run that stuff in a laptop.

Modern games are inclined to analyze your box: "What have we here?" and then adjust the suckiness of your experience to your lack of resources.

To sum up: A good gaming laptop is always going to be a large trade-off.

I need a portable machine. I've decided to just order some inexpensive model with good parameters. It's enough for me. If I wanted something more, I'll decide to assemble a desktop computer.