Best light weight workstation for around £1300

[NoPCnoHumans]

Preferably with thunderbolt 3

 

Does anyone have any ideas? 

[Streetguru]

9 minutes ago, NoPCnoHumans said:

Preferably with thunderbolt 3

 

Does anyone have any ideas? 

What do you need the laptop for?

[Kisai]

24 minutes ago, NoPCnoHumans said:

Preferably with thunderbolt 3

 

Does anyone have any ideas? 

Be more specific. Every Dell Precision and Latitude system has Thunderbolt 3 , or at least all the ones I've encountered.

 

It's my guess that for laptops, it's more likely it has TB than not.

 

But what kind of Workstation? CAD? DAW? NLE?

[NoPCnoHumans]

9 hours ago, Kisai said:

Be more specific. Every Dell Precision and Latitude system has Thunderbolt 3 , or at least all the ones I've encountered.

 

It's my guess that for laptops, it's more likely it has TB than not.

 

But what kind of Workstation? CAD? DAW? NLE?

Cad and video editing

[NoPCnoHumans]

Just now, NoPCnoHumans said:

Cad and video editing

I live in the UK 

[Kisai]

35 minutes ago, NoPCnoHumans said:

Cad and video editing

Hmm.

 

CAD, you need at LEAST a quadro P1000/P1200 (or Geforce GTX 1050ti) for it not to suck to use. However you really should have a P3000 (Geforce GTX 1070 or so) if you want to use all features of AutoCAD and so forth.

 

For NLE, the iGPU can suffice for editing, but not encoding. Most encoding is still CPU. However a "small/thin/light" device will, as I like to say "melt" if you use these devices for long running-CPU operations.