TallTechGuyTTG

@TallTechGuyTTG just picked up the laptop and is working like a charm, thanks man.

Yeah I totally understand. That is the reason I came to this site to ask for help lol. I appreciate the reasoning for your options as it makes it easier for me to make decisions. Again, thanks a lot. I will keep this in mind as I'm still adding up the prices because of sales tax.

Thats ok - I'll be unable to reply for a few hours now. You can take your time!

@TallTechGuyTTG
i will try and see if i can find a solution.
But many thanks for the help

What you want to see on the image is the workstation as far as your usage will go... that extra 6% on the right with the AMD/HP laptop is what you are going to want when programming. 

100% the HP laptop. I just benchmarked them against each other - why it took so long to reply... effectively they are very very similar and while the image does show the overclocking speed as higher on the acer or the intel CPU... the fact that the AMD processor in the HP laptop is much newer, and it has far better graphics capability and is like 50 dollars cheaper than the acer is more than enough reason to get the HP. And it has a bigger screen than the Acer laptop. The Acer/Intel is on the left, and the AMD/HP is on the right. 

Got to be honest... I have always hated HP computers.... but out of the two laptops get the HP, it's got a higher clock speed and actually has a graphics card in it. Where as the Intel clock speed is way lower in terms of digits and it's running off of the CPU's integrated graphics. 
 

@Shiniontv I have a system right now with the ASUS ROG Strix RTX 2070 Super Advanced card... it's an absolute monster... I had the Gigabyte RTX 2070 Super Gaming OC, and it was good... but I just decided to go with continuity and have almost all ASUS components. Good Temps, great performance, it's a long and thick card, so make sure you have room for it.