I am currently banging my head against a wall trying to make a good decision on a laptop purchase. The trouble is that I could do with a pretty decent screen for image editing, but to put things into context, my last laptop was a Toshiba Satellite with a 740m and a pitiful screen. In that sense, I don't know to what would constitute a reasonable enough improvement- all I know is that when I had edited an image on my laptop, that it was so radically different to the one produced by my phone that it was unusable, and I would have to ping pong between the two in order to get the correct... Corrections.
My second requirement is that it can do pretty well with games. I am by no means a hardcore gamer, but there are a few titles that I know are resource heavy. Originally I intended to go for a 17" screen because I thought I might appreciate the extra room (and I move too much for an external monitor), although I don't know how easy that is going to be to move around over time. Saying that, I'm not exactly massively concerned about that.
So far I am fairly certain that I will either go for the HP Omen 17" with 7700, gtx 1060, 16gb ram, 256gb ssd and 1tb hard drive. Alternatively I intended to go for the 4k version of the Dell inspiron 7577, with identical specs except for a 512gb ssd. I know that I won't be playing games at 4k which doesn't massively concern me, but it would be nice to do day-to-day tasks and image editing with a nice screen.
I've come to both of these choices on the basis of the 17" 120hz screen in the case of the Omen (although it doesn't appear to be amazingly colour accurate or bright) with the suspicion that the laptop's overall size will aid heat control to some extent, and the often reported very good heat control and good screen of the Inspiron (not the base models, the 4k model!). However, I wonder if any of you might have any insights on either of these laptops and what you might go for and why?
Thanks for your time!
My second requirement is that it can do pretty well with games. I am by no means a hardcore gamer, but there are a few titles that I know are resource heavy. Originally I intended to go for a 17" screen because I thought I might appreciate the extra room (and I move too much for an external monitor), although I don't know how easy that is going to be to move around over time. Saying that, I'm not exactly massively concerned about that.
So far I am fairly certain that I will either go for the HP Omen 17" with 7700, gtx 1060, 16gb ram, 256gb ssd and 1tb hard drive. Alternatively I intended to go for the 4k version of the Dell inspiron 7577, with identical specs except for a 512gb ssd. I know that I won't be playing games at 4k which doesn't massively concern me, but it would be nice to do day-to-day tasks and image editing with a nice screen.
I've come to both of these choices on the basis of the 17" 120hz screen in the case of the Omen (although it doesn't appear to be amazingly colour accurate or bright) with the suspicion that the laptop's overall size will aid heat control to some extent, and the often reported very good heat control and good screen of the Inspiron (not the base models, the 4k model!). However, I wonder if any of you might have any insights on either of these laptops and what you might go for and why?
Thanks for your time!
The Dell has also the better GPU set up. They're both 1060 Max Q but the Dell has excellent cooling which doesn't see the GPU get throttled. I was leaning more towards the Dell as that 512GB SSD is worth a few bob and I would probably have plugged the laptop into my TV making the 120Hz Gsync screen on the HP mostly redundant.