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Thanks for all the recommendations! If I could buy you a drink I would. I'm not sure what QA/QC means? I actually started looking at the Dell Precision 7530. With a Xeon-E2186M and a Quadro P2000. That laptop with beefed up specs cost just less than £2500 so I'm willing to up my price range. I just want a laptop that is capable of doing things like computational modelling and simulation and machine learning. If I have to pay a premium for that I will have to pay it and just eat beans for the next few months.

I don't know which model it is, the info you get is just the chassis and display type. For prebuilt I've only been looking at laptopsdirect.co.uk. For custom builds I've been looking at scan.co.uk, ebuyer.com, box.co.uk and mysn.de.

Don't mind low sRGB. I built two on pcspecialist.co.uk, one with an i7-8750k and another with the i9-8950hk I'll post their specs below. Chassis & Display Defiance Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD 144Hz 72% NTSC LED Widescreen (1920x1080) + G-Sync Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™ i7 Six Core Processor 8850H (2.6GHz, 4.3GHz Turbo) FREE Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 & More w/ select Intel CPUs! Memory (RAM) 16GB Corsair 3000MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 8GB) Graphics Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1070 - 8.0GB GDDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1 1st Hard Disk 1TB SERIAL ATA III 2.5" HARD DRIVE WITH 32MB CACHE (7,200rpm) 1st M.2 SSD Drive 512GB SAMSUNG 970 PRO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 2300MB/W) FREE Assassin's Creed: Odyssey with select SAMSUNG NVMe SSDs! Intel Optane Memory 32GB INTEL® M10 OPTANE MEMORY - USE WITH MECHANICAL HDD Memory Card Reader Integrated 6 in 1 Card Reader (SD /Mini SD/ SDHC / SDXC / MMC / RSMMC) AC Adaptor 1 x 230W AC Adaptor Battery Defiance Series 4 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (66WH) Power Cable 1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead) Thermal Paste COOLER MASTER MASTERGEL MAKER THERMAL COMPOUND Sound Card 2 Channel High Def. Audio + MIC/Headphone + Sound BlasterX® Pro-Gaming 720˚ Bluetooth & Wireless GIGABIT LAN & KILLER™ WIRELESS-AC 1550 M.2 GAMING 802.11AC + BLUETOOTH 5.0 USB/Thunderbolt Options 4 x USB 3.0 Ports + 1 x USB 3.1 Type C Ports Keyboard Language RGB BACKLIT UK KEYBOARD Operating System Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00001] Operating System Language United Kingdom - English Language Windows Recovery Media Windows 10 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account Office Software FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365 (Operating System Required) Anti-Virus BullGuard™ Internet Security - Free 90 Day License inc. Gamer Mode Browser Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only) Notebook Mouse INTEGRATED 2 BUTTON TOUCHPAD MOUSE Webcam INTEGRATED 2.0 MEGAPIXEL WEBCAM Warranty 3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) Dead Pixel Guarantee 1 Year Dead Pixel Guarantee Inc. Labour & Carriage Costs Delivery STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI) Build Time Standard Build - Approximately 4 to 6 working days Quantity 1 Price £1,926.00 including VAT and Delivery LAPTOP 2 Chassis & Display Defiance Series: 17.3" Matte QHD 120Hz 72% NTSC LED Widescreen (2560x1440) + G-Sync Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™ i9 Six Core Processor 8950HK (2.9GHz, 4.8GHz Turbo) FREE Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 & More w/ select Intel CPUs! Memory (RAM) 16GB Corsair 3000MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 8GB) Graphics Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1070 - 8.0GB GDDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1 1st Hard Disk 1TB SEAGATE 7mm SERIAL ATA III 2.5" HARD DRIVE WITH 128MB CACHE (7,200rpm) 1st M.2 SSD Drive 250GB SAMSUNG 970 EVO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3400MB/R, 1500MB/W) FREE Assassin's Creed: Odyssey with select SAMSUNG NVMe SSDs! Intel Optane Memory 32GB INTEL® M10 OPTANE MEMORY - USE WITH MECHANICAL HDD Memory Card Reader Integrated 6 in 1 Card Reader (SD /Mini SD/ SDHC / SDXC / MMC / RSMMC) AC Adaptor 1 x 230W AC Adaptor Battery Defiance Series 4 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (66WH) Power Cable 1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead) Thermal Paste COOLER MASTER MASTERGEL MAKER THERMAL COMPOUND Sound Card 2 Channel High Def. Audio + MIC/Headphone + Sound BlasterX® Pro-Gaming 720˚ Bluetooth & Wireless GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® AC-9260 M.2 (1.73Gbps, 802.11AC) +BT 5.0 USB/Thunderbolt Options 4 x USB 3.0 Ports + 1 x USB 3.1 Type C Ports Keyboard Language DEFIANCE SERIES PER-KEY RGB BACKLIT UK KEYBOARD Operating System Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00001] Operating System Language United Kingdom - English Language Windows Recovery Media Windows 10 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account Office Software FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365 (Operating System Required) Anti-Virus BullGuard™ Internet Security - Free 90 Day License inc. Gamer Mode Browser Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only) Notebook Mouse INTEGRATED 2 BUTTON TOUCHPAD MOUSE Webcam INTEGRATED 2.0 MEGAPIXEL WEBCAM Warranty 3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) Dead Pixel Guarantee 1 Year Dead Pixel Guarantee Inc. Labour & Carriage Costs Delivery STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI) Build Time Standard Build - Approximately 4 to 6 working days Quantity 1 Price £2,163.00 including VAT and Delivery

Yes to buying in the UK. I'm not sure how much of a difference the GPU makes? I know MATLAB and python borrow GPU processing so maybe it's best to get a Quadro but that does seem to bump my price a lot? Like I say, not bothered at all about gaming so I don't think the display size or quality matters. Weight doesn't matter either. I was hoping for 5h battery or better but again it seems like the more beastly laptops average out at 2 or 3 hours. I considered using some form of custom build site so if you could recommend a site to go with that would be great!

Thanks for replying! Let's say £1500/$2000usd.

I'm sure this question gets asked a lot and I'm going to scan through the forum next. However, can anyone recommend the best laptop for doing complex stats analysis and computational modelling? A lot of my work is done in MATLAB which I understand requires a lot of parallel processing, but I don't know what that means in terms of what I should buy. My plan was to build a desktop system for analysis and buy a cheap laptop for the day-to-day, but I've just found out when I start my new job I won't get my first paycheck for 6 weeks. Given the amount of work I already have to do with no functioning laptop and no income I'm reduced to having to buy a laptop capable of doing my analysis and pay for it in monthly installments. Any help would be much appreciated. At this point, imagine money doesn't matter and neither does gaming capability. All I care about is the best performance I can get in a laptop. Edit: Just wanted to add that I need windows but hate windows. So I will be dual booting with Ubuntu. Not sure that affects recommendations