Best Laptop for my JOB

Roy24

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Hello all techie's,

I am a new bee and have very basics knowledge about laptops.

I am going to start my new job and all my works depends on a laptop. Currently I am planning to buy a new laptop.

Could you please suggest me best laptop (New/used) for me?

PURPOSE:
- Able to work smoothly with high-end modeling and simulation software programs.
- Decent battery life.
- Big screen.
- With good inbuilt software like Microsoft office etc.

Appreciate any kind suggestions.

Thanks,
Roy.
 
i suppose it depends on the modelling software.... For Business, i use HP Zbook fury.. and the firefly is worth a look, if the software isnt fussy about GPU you might get away with a cheaper blingy gaming laptop

office isnt built in you need to subscribe..

strange job though that doesnt provide this
 
Hi Kurgen,

Thanks for your suggestions.

Sorry I would like to add some more requirements with it. Excuse me for weirdest needs.
- With Touch screen
- Lighter weight


Many thanks
 
Roy24 said:
- Able to work smoothly with high-end modelling and simulation software programs.

Roy.
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MacBooks seem to excel in this area and are widely used for this very purpose. Food for thought.

Failing that, Dell XPS range.

Down to what software you will be using really and which OS you want.
 
Roy24 said:
- Able to work smoothly with high-end modeling and simulation software programs.
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Take a closer look at this software and it will give you the minimum spec recommendations for its use. Let us know what it says. You'll probably need a laptop with decent graphics capabilities.

My initial suggestion is a Dell XPS 16.

Here's a list of other brands out there to help your research:

Acer
Alienware
Apple
Asus
Dell
Fujitsu
Gigabyte
HP
Huawei
Lenovo
LG
Microsoft
MSI
Razer
Samsung
 
May I ask why the company you are starting with is not supplying the laptop for you?

I work from home and my company provides me with a laptop (Lenovo Touchpad P15) and everything else to do my job.
 
ED209 said:
May I ask why the company you are starting with is not supplying the laptop for you?

I work from home and my company provides me with a laptop (Lenovo Touchpad P15) and everything else to do my job.
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Kind of the first thought that came to my mind too. My wife works form home and her company provides here with all her gear like a phone, laptop etc.
 
BeeP said:
Kind of the first thought that came to my mind too. My wife works form home and her company provides here with all her gear like a phone, laptop etc.
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exactly.

My laptop is a good few years old now but still going strong, I not want to be paying out for this spec today as it would not be cheap.

I7 10850H
64GB ram
Nvidia Quadro T2000
1TB nvme drive

It's a Lenovo Thinkpad P15, 14" touch screen and its quite a good little laptop. I use it folded down though with my own keyboard\mouse\monitor.
 
Could well be self employed contract type work?

That’s what I thought anyway but yeah, the employer should provide the kit otherwise.
 
Dell XPS range are good value for money for that sort of work and you can go for the lowest 4000 series GPU. XPS 15 at around £1100 target price for example. They're often on 'sale' so never buy one at full RRP.
 
Some remote companies simply provide employees with a budget for hardware and let them purchase something suitable locally, especially if they have employees all over the world as it's often easier than trying to find and deal with suppliers of hardware in other countries and managing shipping and customs. Though even in this situation I'd expect the company to provide rough guidelines on what to aim for...but understand if it's a smaller company without dedicated IT, that may not happen.

As well as all the above suggestions, you could look at the custom built laptop route too with providers who utilise brands such as Clevo and TongFang. We use these for purchasing high end gaming laptops that are often a better spec and cheaper than the Dell or Razer equivalents. I expect they are classed as a competitor so can't really say who we use (they are Wakefield based....hopefully that doesn't ruffle feathers please delete this if it does!)
 
Roy24 said:
Hello all techie's,

I am a new bee and have very basics knowledge about laptops.

I am going to start my new job and all my works depends on a laptop. Currently I am planning to buy a new laptop.

Could you please suggest me best laptop (New/used) for me?

PURPOSE:
- Able to work smoothly with high-end modeling and simulation software programs.
- Decent battery life.
- Big screen.
- With good inbuilt software like Microsoft office etc.

Appreciate any kind suggestions.

Thanks,
Roy.
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Looking at all of your requirements, if your modelling and sim software is Mac compatible, there’s only really one option and that’s an M3 MacBook Pro.

You added lightweight to the requirements so any windows laptop that can do all of that and be lightweight will be a very high end Dell or HP that makes use of Carbon fibre.

How much ram does your modelling and sim software use? 32gigs?

One solution that I like is to have a dedicated desktop at home that can run the simulation software that you can remote into leaving the laptop free for emails and general work.

Laptops don’t really like being run at full stress for extended periods - it’s not really what they’re designed for.

You could easily buy an AM4 5900X or 5700X3D or 5950X with 32gigs of RAM and an RTX 2060 or 3080 that’ll monster any sim work for not a huge cost.

Just a thought.

Edit: ah, you did say touchscreen which changes things a little. MacBooks don’t have touchscreen

2nd edit: what about an external GPU connected to your laptop via Thunderbolt? That would work really well for sim work.
 
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