I need to replace my laptop and I am having a bit of a trouble deciding on which route to take.
I was considering buying a 2017 MPB 15" (Quad core i7, 16gb Ram, 512SSD) but i am hesitant about the £2699 price tag. The reason that I was using to justify this was, my brother has a 15" MBP which he paid around £2000 for and it has been running for four or five years now and it is still going strong.
I was looking at purchasing the MPB now and then in a couple of months purchasing a 34" ultra wide monitor.
I keep however coming back to the idea of a dell xps 15 9560 (i7, 512gb, 16gb ram), aty about a £1000 pounds cheaper i could buy the monitor at the same time.
I have read the Dell XPS thread on here and it seems that some people have been having issues with them which is making me a bit reserved.
My questions are:
I was considering buying a 2017 MPB 15" (Quad core i7, 16gb Ram, 512SSD) but i am hesitant about the £2699 price tag. The reason that I was using to justify this was, my brother has a 15" MBP which he paid around £2000 for and it has been running for four or five years now and it is still going strong.
I was looking at purchasing the MPB now and then in a couple of months purchasing a 34" ultra wide monitor.
I keep however coming back to the idea of a dell xps 15 9560 (i7, 512gb, 16gb ram), aty about a £1000 pounds cheaper i could buy the monitor at the same time.
I have read the Dell XPS thread on here and it seems that some people have been having issues with them which is making me a bit reserved.
My questions are:
- Is the 4K screen worth the extra money?
- I can't get 32Gb Ram unless i select the 4K screen, are the ram sticks 2x8? how feasible would this be upgradable to 32gb later?
- Would the dell happily drive this monitor?
- I would like to to be able to use a single USB-C to connect the laptop to the monitor and power the laptop, would this work?
- Would i be able to plug a keyboard and mouse into the monitor? to save having the cables from the laptop? (Apologies if this is a stupid question)
- Occasional light gaming nothing intense at all
- No Photo editing or Video Editing
- The laptop will need to run a couple of VMs with various Linux/Windows builds on it. (not all at once)
