[United States] - New Laptop for Grad School and Gaming, ~$1000-$2000 USD budget

You can go for the Lenovo Legion 5 15" Gaming Laptop. It comes with a 8-core Ryzen 7 4800H processor, GTX 1660 Ti graphics, 16 GB RAM, a 256 GB SSD, and a 1080p 15.6" 144Hz IPS display. This combination can run modern games at high settings at 1080p easily. Unlike most Ryzen 4000 series laptops, it doesn't sacrifice thermals or display quality, which is a big plus. The AMD Ryzen 7 4800H processor is an excellent performer in CPU-heavy tasks and efficient in gaming and everyday use. You get a clean utilitarian design, good inputs, good screens, and multiple configuration options. It is equipped with 16 GB of DDR4 3200 MHz RAM out of the box, with two sticks in dual-channel, and a mid-level SK Hynix 512 GB SSD, which is fast enough for everyday use. It has good battery timing as well.

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