New Laptop Advice

Good Afternoon folks

So I am in the market for a new laptop. I currently have a pretty decent laptop, but there have been shortcomings from my current device. Battery life, and weight.

I was waiting for the announcement of the Macbook Pro refresh, and while that has happened I am looking at alternative options as the 3200$ for the fully upgraded version is a little hefty.

I will be using the laptop mostly for running VMs , surfing the web, light coding/scripting and surfing the web. Gaming would be a nice to have, but my desktop is more than sufficient to fill that role.

Here's what I'd like to see. For reference my currently laptop is one of the ASUS ROG 17" series. Nice laptop, but an absolute power-hungry-monster-behemoth

· i7 preferred , i5 acceptable
· 16GB memory preferred, 8GB acceptable
· 15.6" FHD
· Thin & Light (This is important)
· Battery life (Also important) would like to see 7+ hours
· dGPU maybe?

I have done some scouring of my own but havent quite hit something that tickled my fancy. Was wondering if anyone else had some good options

Much appreciated

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ptilsen

Well, your wife is an exception to what I'm saying, really, which was not directed at you in particular. For someone who wants Final Cut, there's really very little choice. The 15'' MBP is the laptop to get.

kriscamaro68

ptilsen wrote: »

Well, your wife is an exception to what I'm saying, really, which was not directed at you in particular. For someone who wants Final Cut, there's really very little choice. The 15'' MBP is the laptop to get.

Sorry, I didn't think it was directed at me just stating more or less what you said. I didn't have a choice in laptops so that was why my $3k is gone. I hope its a bad@ss laptop for the money we paid.

devils_haircut

I'm usually more of a Lenovo or Dell guy (Dell business series, anyway), but if you like the look of the MBP but not necessarily the OS or the price tag, you should look at the HP Envy series. I'm not a big fan of HP, but they basically ripped off Apple on the design of their Envy laptops, and they're available with an i7.

Something like this:

HP ENVY 17t-j000 Quad Edition Notebook PC | HP® Official Store

I can personally vouch for the smoothness and ergonomics of the keyboard and trackpad. If I didn't already have my IdeaPad, I'd probably buy one.

RouteMyPacket

ptilsen wrote: »

Yep, I made an edit. Pretty impressive. I'd wait for reviews, professional and shopper, for both products, however. One iteration of the MBP had serious screen problems (plenty of other Macbooks as well), and Dell has certainly had its share of problems. The MBP still has a couple minor advantages, but nothing to justify the price (unless you have some need for OS X), so if qualitative analysis and reliability are good, the XPS 15 line looks really, really solid.

One other thing is my understand is that Apple has done a decent job making Retina resolution actually usable and useful. Microsoft, less so. Hence, wait for reviews. For the price difference, though, I'd probably opt for the middle-tier, $1,849.99 Dell if the resolution is no good.

Apple was wise to drop the price, but they should have upped the RAM or something as well. The IRIS Pro-only 15'' is $2,000 for 8GB of RAM and 256GB SSD. Crazy.

I have 8GB RAM, 256SSD in my 13" MBP Retina and didn't spend $2,000 and I also got the VGA and Ethernet adapters and magic mouse at the time.

Real Engineers use Mac /discussion lol

ptilsen

RouteMyPacket wrote: »

I have 8GB RAM, 256SSD in my 13" MBP Retina and didn't spend $2,000 and I also got the VGA and Ethernet adapters and magic mouse at the time.

13'' is not suitable for me, which is why I referred to the 15''. I mean, neither is 256GB or 8GB, but regardless, I don't see what your 13'' has to do with my point. The 15'' MBP is $2,000 and comes with the specs I listed. That's too much, even on top of Macs already being too much. The 13'' line is overall much more reasonably and competitively priced, compared to non-Mac alternatives.

tpatt100

I had a Dell XPS laptop last year that had so many hardware issues Dell quickly retired it and introduced a new design/model.

XPS 15z Laptop Details | Dell

The fans would kick in if you did anything, it got hot surfing the web, the DVD drive died soon after. I had pretty good luck with Dell laptops previously but Dell kept switching things up to try and sell hardware and I picked a really bad year I guess.