Dell XPS 15 or?

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I can get a laptop ** No competitor talk please **
i7 4712
GTX 750 2gb
16gb ram
512gb msata
15.6" QHD touch screen

Or?

What would people recommend for

Light gaming
Learning to program
Video editing
Photo editing
Cisco virtual networking
And packet tracer
Running multiple vmware with different OS' s running
 
For that money getom something else! my spec was £1500 when it was available.

Battery life is around 3-4 hours of light web browsing with 40% backlight. and i've watched a movie on the train from london to manchester before and it still had juice. That said, its a slim laptop! so only finite space for the battery!
 
How long do you want the battery to ideally last before you plug in?
Will the laptop be getting carried about a lot or is it just likely to spend 90% of its time around the home?
Also what games are we talking about when you say light gaming?

Don't bother going for large SSD/M-sata setup's better to just get a SSD yourself and install it as an additional drive, i assume your looking at SSD's to speed up the audio/video production work your doing ?
 
Will be used when travelling by train or away from home in random areas, games are the likes of c&c, civilization 5 and any newer iterations, emulators, halo, eve online and others to boot.

Really want it to have ac wireless also

Also as much screen res as possible and prefer the likes of ips screen quality.

Would like to have 6hrs+ battery life
 
And the ssd's are perfect for extending battery life and fast access and loading of data and maps etc

Obviously the speed will be beneficial when editing also
 
Look at it this way, you're not going to find a latpop that gives you 6 hours of gaming. the GS60 can eek out almost 4 hours it reckons on light usage. but only 51 mins gaming.

I still say that the GS series is best due to the quality, style, and power of the machines. They have AC wireless and killer LAN, they do a 3k model now, as well as having dual SSD's and a 7200rpm HDD for storage. But they're not touch screen. Never seen the need really.
 
Your probably looking at a Nvidia 860M Graphics and any sort of quad core i7, however as said for 1300 notes you might struggle to get all those especially because of the 512GB SSD that your after. most setups will charge you a lot extra for that. you can get a good 15" gigabyte or equivalent laptop for about 1000-1100 but thats without the 512GB SSD. you could pick up the 512GB MX100 Crucial SSD for about 150-160 and fit it yourself?
 
RoBoT said:
Really need to buy a laptop but so stuck on what to get. ....
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I wouldn't buy branded, only custom build. MSI and so on have a nice void sticker when you swap parts, what happens if it breaks down? Highly unlikely you can simply put the sticker back.

Maybe i'm wrong.
 
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The MBP looks great on paper until you realise everything is now soldered to the MB so can't be upgraded
 
I have the Dell XPS 15 (2014) and its epic, well worth the money and my misses has the XPs 13 (2014) which I think is a little too small... but it hands a lot of games that I throw at it and its light and looks fantastic :)

Stelly
 
Stelly said:
I have the Dell XPS 15 (2014) and its epic, well worth the money and my misses has the XPs 13 (2014) which I think is a little too small... but it hands a lot of games that I throw at it and its light and looks fantastic :)

Stelly
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Cool that's good to hear, what sorts of games do you play on the 15? What sort of things do you use it for? what's it like for heat? And any other good gen would be appreciated :)
 
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Now after looking at the MBP I'm thinking that, as you can't upgrade most laptops anyway and people complain that you can't upgrade them lol, but you get the Mac OS as well as being able to dual boot with windows of some sorts, run VMware to run Linux etc, it has great software for programming, a better processor than most laptops and has intel iris pro graphics paired with the gtx 750 graphics and the long battery life I wanted.

Only thing is it costs 2k lol
 
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