Help me decide which to keep.

Question

Ideally this laptop will last me 5+ years I work in stem and often do demanding tasks in arc gis and other memory heavy sfotwares. Also do a bit of gaming on the side, am leaning towards the cheaper model but am having a hard time deciding if the price diffrence will make a big diffrence in terms of longevity.

Laptop 1:

I picked up this  Legion Pro 5 Gen 10 AMD (16") with RTX 5070 for
$1,333.63

Specs:
Processor AMD Ryzen™ 9 9955HX Processor (2.50 GHz up to 5.40 GHz)

Operating System Windows 11 Home 64

Graphic Card NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5070 Laptop GPU 8GB GDDR7

Memory 32 GB DDR5-5600MT/s (SODIMM)(2 x 16 GB)

Storage 2 TB SSD M.2 2242 PCIe Gen4 TLC (2 x 1 TB)

Display 16" WQXGA (2560 x 1600), OLED, Glare, Non-Touch, HDR 1000 True Black, 100%DCI-P3, 500 nits, 165Hz, Low Blue Light

Camera 5MP with Dual Microphone and Privacy Shutter

Keyboard 24zone RGB Backlit, Black - English (US)

WIFI Wi-Fi 7 2x2 BE 160MHz & Bluetooth® 5.4

Warranty 1 Year Courier or Carry-in

Color Eclipse Black

Operating System Language EN:English

Laptop 2:

I picked up this  Legion Pro 7i Gen 10 Intel (16") with RTX™ 5080 for
$2,093.79

Processor Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 275HX Processor (E-cores up to 4.60 GHz P-cores up to 5.40 GHz)

Operating System Windows 11 Home 64

Graphic Card NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5080 Laptop GPU 16GB GDDR7

Memory 32 GB DDR5-6400MT/s (CSODIMM)(2 x 16 GB)

Storage 1 TB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe Gen5 Performance TLC

Display 16" WQXGA (2560 x 1600), OLED, Glare, Non-Touch, HDR 1000 True Black, 100%DCI-P3, 500 nits, 240Hz, Low Blue Light

Camera 5MP with Dual Microphone and Privacy Shutter

Keyboard Per-Key RGB Backlit, Black - English (US)

WIFI Wi-Fi 7 2x2 BE 320MHz & Bluetooth® 5.4

Warranty 1 Year Courier or Carry-in

Color Eclipse Black

Operating System Language EN:English

Posted Feb 5, 2026, 5:49 PM UTC

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