anth_85

I have just joined to do what little I can to help out in the fight against covid. I've been meaning to put mine to work for while so this morning I have remoted onto a few PCs sitting doing nothing at work and set them away and started it off on my pc at home so I have at work i5 3470S CPU, 8GB Ram, no GPU (2 of these) Ryzen 7 1700x CPU, 32gb Ram and GTX 1060 3GB GPU i5 4690 CPU, 8GB Ram, no GPU i5 6500 CPU, 16GB Ram, no GPU at home i7 6700 CPU, 32GB Ram and RTX2070 Super I know graphics processors are more efficient, but I figured every little helps and it's better than them sitting doing nothing, it still totals 36 (logical) cores. I also have a GTX970 4GB sitting in a box, there is space for it in my PC at home so I could put it alongside the 2070 but I am not sure if it will be taken advantage of? Is there anything else I can do to these systems to help at all, baring in mind the office is now closed so I cant physically get to them.

No sadly not, but as I say this is a portable machine and integrated gpu is the least of my worries. These XPS are very lightweight. If I wanted something heavy I’d just bring my MacBook Pro 15 and just use that.

it will have enough next day on site warranty that it will last until the laptop is due for renewal. The 1080p vs 4k doesnt really bother me, because like you say you can barely notice the difference, but for some reason the none flip has touch only on the 4k and I think it'd struggle to go back to not having it, therefore it's only fair to compare like for like.

No, I'd rather not carry a 15" laptop too and from work. My XPS stays at work, I work at a university, so carry it all over campus which is a massive area, hence the portability requirement. I also don't think the Dell thunderbolt dock plays nicely with bootcamp, I know it's a nightmare in macos. performance is increased is minor, but battery life is much improved. I've had a 5400, a 7300 and a 7400 on my desk nest to my XPS and I can assure you the latitudes are not better quality than the XPS. The 'business' laptop does not mean better quality, it just means it has things like vpro and a tpm chip, both of which the XPS has and since i have the business warranty anyway, there is little difference in that regard, but the XPS is smaller and lighter for the same spec. Roughly 2mm thicker, 10mm wider, 8mm deeper and 100g heavier, but it's not just that, the 5000 series feels cheaper. Things like the separate trackpad buttons the barrel power supply rather than usb-c, the bigger bezels round the screen, the much cheaper plastic case.

I know. It’s the 2.6 i7 though so not the pointless i9. It’s plenty fast enough for my home use. I have an iPad Pro, iPhone, Apple Watch for personal so I’m well in the Apple ecosystem. for work however I support a windows environment so a windows laptop makes the most sense.

I have a 2018 15” MacBook Pro at home ?

I looked at at 7300 and 7300 2 in 1, but there doesn't seem to be an ice-lake version, they are all 8th gen chips. The screen to body ratio is not as good, they are also thicker and heavier. The 5000 series is considerably cheaper and lower quality. The XPS still comes with a TPM chip and the same warranty, after the warranty has ran out it is replaced anyway.

Has to be from Dell since that’s who my work have a tender agreement with, we get large discounts because we buy exclusively from them unless they can’t supply what we need, which so far has pretty much meant macOS. For reference I can get the 2in1 for £1550 (GBP) for the 4k, i7 1065g7, 16gb ram, 512gb ssd. That one is £1980 as a normal buyer. I'd need to get a quote for the 9300

I’m due a new laptop from work. Our tender is with Dell so I’m limited to them, but they are pretty good prices. I’m looking at the two models above. I’m struggling to see many differences. The 2in1 obviously folds back, it also has a soldered ssd where the 9300 does not. I’d not be able to change that ssd anyway (warranty). Both are the 1065G7, both would be 16gb ram and both a 512gb ssd and the 4K touch screen. I would have a longer wait for the 9300. I think the 2in1 is the 15w version and the 9300 is the 25w maybe? I have a dell thunderbolt dock and two 1440p monitors so I’m fine when I’m at my desk but I’m out and about quite a bit so portability is essential. I’m not doing anything particularly heavy, mostly IT admin so I remote onto other machines for most things. which would you pick?