Okay so I'm a soon to be college student, and I get a laptop of my choice as my graduation present.
To give you context on what I will be needing in a laptop: I will be going to college for Media Arts & Design, specifically I want to do filmmaking. I also edit video for youtube, so there will be a lot of video editing, graphic design, photoshop done on this laptop. I need it to have decent battery life so It can handle a lecture full of notes and not die on me. I currently own two monitors, so I will be hooking this laptop up to those to help with my editing workflow, but I will probably use a dock to do that. As far as gaming goes Im not exactly worried about that, I really only play Civ, starcraft type games, but I mostly play on Xbox/PS4.
I've narrowed my options to the Gigabyte Aero 15x or the XPS 15 based on specs and suggestions I got from friends. However, I cannot decide which one to get. What would be the better option? or should I go with something else?