I just picked up the new Razer Blade Stealth 13 with the i7-1065G7. It's been a good chipset for my needs, especially when coupled with fast RAM and an SSD. I run a lot of engineering programs and I do run VSCode and MATLAB for coding purposes. It's plenty fast for all of those purposes so far. You may get more use from one of Intel's Comet Lake processors with 6-cores if you know you'll be doing heavy multithreading. But as a quad-core it's a great chip. Iris is pretty speedy, much better than any other integrated chip I've used and so far it's been adequate.
Let me go ahead and preface this by saying I already have my desktop rig completely built so we can avoid the "Buy a cheaper laptop and build a desktop" situation.
Secondly, I'm less buying this and more having a friend replace something he broke so I am trying to get a similar value/same laptop as what I have.
Okay now with that all out of the way, a very rotund friend of mine accidentally sat on my gaming laptop when we were on a road trip. This has left me in need of a new gaming laptop for both on the move gaming and Uni work. I was using a slightly older Origin 17 S and I had hoped to replace it with the newer model. However, I recently found out that the current 17 S units are just Tonfang(I think that is how it is spelled) rebrands. This is the same OEM that Walmart uses and that instantly threw Origin out the window for me. I am currently looking at ether the ROG Zephyrus S GX701 or the Razer Blade Pro 17. My budget is 2800ish as that was the original msrp of my laptop that was flattened. I wanted to reach out and get opinion and perhaps alternate recommendations for a mobile platform from you guys at OC3D.
DarK_FirefoX reacted to ShredBird in Laptop Recommendation i7-1065g7 (coding)
