Laptop for Photoshop, Coding, Unity

[CNemo]

Hey everyone,

I need to go portable for a few months, and I was looking into replacing my old crappy laptop with something that can actually let me work if I am traveling.
I was thinking about a dell 15 with an NVidia GPU, but I was wondering what you guys think my options are with a budget of roughly 1000 USD.
I'd prefer a 15 inch, although I will probably be hooking it up to a monitor at some point, and anyway I have a cintiq for digital painting.
As for the use, I primarily do web development, so it needs to run local servers smoothly, and I might want to add a second boot or use VMs for Ubuntu (not sure yet, I do on the desktop). I also use unity every now and then, though not for graphics intensive tasks, mainly 2d or lowpoly 3d. In terms of photoshop, I'd have to use rather large canvases so that's why I was thinking about a good NVidia

Thanks in advance!

[Bombastinator]

49 minutes ago, CNemo said:

Hey everyone,

I need to go portable for a few months, and I was looking into replacing my old crappy laptop with something that can actually let me work if I am traveling.
I was thinking about a dell 15 with an NVidia GPU, but I was wondering what you guys think my options are with a budget of roughly 1000 USD.
I'd prefer a 15 inch, although I will probably be hooking it up to a monitor at some point, and anyway I have a cintiq for digital painting.
As for the use, I primarily do web development, so it needs to run local servers smoothly, and I might want to add a second boot or use VMs for Ubuntu (not sure yet, I do on the desktop). I also use unity every now and then, though not for graphics intensive tasks, mainly 2d or lowpoly 3d. In terms of photoshop, I'd have to use rather large canvases so that's why I was thinking about a good NVidia

Thanks in advance!

So many different specifics turns things general again.  The only trend I’m seeing is a decent number of cores and a lot of memory

[CNemo]

Right What can I get with my budget then? I kinda got ripped off last time so I prefer asking now. Are Dells any good?

[CNemo]

Well, I guess can I get some decent 8 cores i7, with nvidia gpu, hopefully 1 tb hdd plus a small ssd, 16gb of ram, with my budget? I'd basically just get what I spent the same amount on my desktop for 3 years ago.

[CNemo]

I was looking into the Acer Nitro 7, is it any good for work? I doubt I'll ever game much on it, but the specs seem good.

[sdrjax]

Are you only looking at new laptops?  You can get some powerhouse workstations from a few years ago for pretty cheap.

 

This one has an i7, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Nvidia Quadro, 4K screen, Thunderbolt 3, W10 Pro, etc.  Plus parts and batteries for these Thinkpads are user replaceable.  Lots of high quality refurbs on eBay and their search filters are great.

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-ThinkPad-P50-i7-6820HQ-2-7GHz-32GB-1TB-SSD-2GB-M1000M-4K-Disp-3820-x-2160/372792074449?hash=item56cc23a0d1%3Ag%3ArJwAAOSwi1pbu39P&LH_BIN=1

 

 

Or a newer one still roughly in your budget:

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-ThinkPad-P52s-15-6-Ultra-HD-4K-i7-8650U-8Th-Gen-32GB-RAM-1TB-SSD-P500/293459662964?hash=item44538f1874:m:mK9eSa4ujjsB8kH_fHtfb-Q

[CNemo]

Awesome! Actually I am okay in getting a renewed one, I heard it usually works out as they are usually fine and only needed the screen replaced. A friend of mine also recommended this: https://www.amazon.com/2019-HP-2-Touch-Screen-15-DF0013DX/dp/B07RR78VKX/ref=sr_1_4?crid=UDZMEDA41N1W&keywords=hp+spectre+x360&qid=1582553879&s=electronics&sprefix=hp+spec%2Celectronics%2C162&sr=1-4

Roughly the same price of that newer lenovo, with less ram and storage, but better GPU (and touch)