Sub $2k Laptop

Thelaunster · August 16, 2019

I'm in the market for a sub $2k USD laptop. It's primary uses would be word processing, chrome browsing, and Fusion 360 projects. Light gaming sessions would be nice when I'm away from my gaming desktop at home.

In order of importance:

Build quality/reliability

Battery Life

Performance

Wifi Connectivity

Keyboard

Not Important:

Size

Weight

Resolution

Touch Screen

Webcam

Speakers

RGB

My initial contenders were the usual suspects (Razer, Zephyrus, ROG) but the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Extreme did catch my eye...

Am I over-buying for my use case? Should I be looking at well equipped ultrabooks to save some $$$?

genexis_x · August 17, 2019

9 hours ago, Thelaunster said:

reliability

business grade laptop then

9 hours ago, Thelaunster said:

Battery Life

min how many hours?

9 hours ago, Thelaunster said:

Weight

no need thin and light then

Are you from US?

Thelaunster · August 18, 2019

Yes from the US, Business grade is where I'm leaning towards. Weight and size are moot points.

Anything 8-12 hours of real world use would be great if that is possible.

genexis_x · August 18, 2019

Does your workload requires higher end hardware though. If not a ULV CPU and maybe a low end dGPU will do

Thelaunster · August 18, 2019

After more research I do not believe I require higher end hardware. My desktop can run everything I need with a i5-6600K-3.5GHz, 8GB Ram, GTX980ti.

For the laptop I wouldn't mind trading some of this performance for more battery life.

How low end of a dGPU can I go to get a passable experience at medium settings 1080p? Would a GTX 1050ti Max Q be overkill or would MX150 be too low?

genexis_x · August 23, 2019

On 8/19/2019 at 12:37 AM, Thelaunster said:

How low end of a dGPU can I go to get a passable experience at medium settings 1080p?

In what games?

On 8/17/2019 at 2:49 AM, Thelaunster said:

Build quality/reliability

If this is a big concern: Get business grade laptops like Thinkpad P/T/X series, Latitude 7000 series and Elitebook 800 series (not convertible) / Zbook 14u/15u. Though I wouldn't buy them from Amazon due to limited choices