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No better place to get laptop advice than a car forum:
So I was looking at a new laptop and was curious if anyone had experience, good or bad, on the Dell XPS line.
I was looking at variants what had the 6 core 8750h and sticking with the 1080 screen because at 15", I don't care to spend more on a 4k screen. Looking to be in the $1200 range give it take.
My last laptop is a 8 year old Samsung R580 that cost around $500-600 back around 2011-2012. I'd gone to a SSD a few years into having it and have dismantled it to reseat the heatsink... placed the screen and keyboard in the last couple years and a couple batteries in all that time... so I tend to keep things a long time and fix them as I can to get the most out of them. While I know I could slap a SSD in a $400 Acer, I'd like to have something that will, again, last a long time and be quite good in the first few years.
So far as gaming is concerned, I still do a bit on a desktop and can gamestream off the PS Network on the laptop if I wanted if I was away from home so I don't see only having a 1050 Ti as a liability. Any suggestions or recommendations are welcome. As portability and battery life are also big pluses, I'd pick it's ~4 lb weight and long battery life over a mid-range gaming laptop that might have a 1060 but be thick, heavy, have a much lower capacity battery and a dim screen. The one thing that it's missing that sucks is a number pad on the XPS 15.
I do have one of the more recent iPads with a keyboard attached, so I don't have any interest in anything under a 15" screen or budget Chromebooks. If I need more portability, I'd go with it.
When I buy computer stuff, I research awhile before I buy but I'm a little out-of-date with the good and bad of laptops today. I was thinking of building a MSI Whitebook like I had done a few times for friends/family years back, but I think MSI has gotten out of the barebones laptop business.
Thanks.
So I was looking at a new laptop and was curious if anyone had experience, good or bad, on the Dell XPS line.
I was looking at variants what had the 6 core 8750h and sticking with the 1080 screen because at 15", I don't care to spend more on a 4k screen. Looking to be in the $1200 range give it take.
My last laptop is a 8 year old Samsung R580 that cost around $500-600 back around 2011-2012. I'd gone to a SSD a few years into having it and have dismantled it to reseat the heatsink... placed the screen and keyboard in the last couple years and a couple batteries in all that time... so I tend to keep things a long time and fix them as I can to get the most out of them. While I know I could slap a SSD in a $400 Acer, I'd like to have something that will, again, last a long time and be quite good in the first few years.
So far as gaming is concerned, I still do a bit on a desktop and can gamestream off the PS Network on the laptop if I wanted if I was away from home so I don't see only having a 1050 Ti as a liability. Any suggestions or recommendations are welcome. As portability and battery life are also big pluses, I'd pick it's ~4 lb weight and long battery life over a mid-range gaming laptop that might have a 1060 but be thick, heavy, have a much lower capacity battery and a dim screen. The one thing that it's missing that sucks is a number pad on the XPS 15.
I do have one of the more recent iPads with a keyboard attached, so I don't have any interest in anything under a 15" screen or budget Chromebooks. If I need more portability, I'd go with it.
When I buy computer stuff, I research awhile before I buy but I'm a little out-of-date with the good and bad of laptops today. I was thinking of building a MSI Whitebook like I had done a few times for friends/family years back, but I think MSI has gotten out of the barebones laptop business.
Thanks.
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