Laptop $1600, what do I get?

[Ebenesh]

I need a laptop that has good battery life 4-5 hrs and the best performance I can get...

Is it better to wait for maxwell And broadwell'??

[ZetZet]

For broadwell maybe, mobile gpu's are mostly rebrands they give no fucks in that market.

[hawaiims]

I need a laptop that has good battery life 4-5 hrs and the best performance I can get...

Is it better to wait for maxwell And broadwell'??

what do you mean by performance? GPU performance for gaming? CPU performance? What screen size do you want? Do you care about weight?

[Ebenesh]

what do you mean by performance? GPU performance for gaming? CPU performance? What screen size do you want? Do you care about weight?

I basically need to run CAD modeling softwares ... So mostly CUDA based and more CPU cores the better... Lighter the better... Need it for grad school.

[ciprian97pop]

I need a laptop that has good battery life 4-5 hrs and the best performance I can get...

Is it better to wait for maxwell And broadwell'??

this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834233021

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152444

[hawaiims]

I basically need to run CAD modeling softwares ... So mostly CUDA based and more CPU cores the better... Lighter the better... Need it for grad school.

15 inch Macbook pro retina is about the best you'll get. There really isn't a good pc equivalent for that laptop, and you can simply install windows on the macbook pro.

 

It has a super high resolution screen which is great for CAD work, and has a quad core i7 processor (not the ultra low voltage i7 you will find in an ultrabook) , oh and also you can get a GTX 750M in it, and it has 8GB of ram. Not to mention it's really thin and light for a laptop that powerful. 

 

Oh and also it has a 256GB PCIe SSD that gives nearly 1 gigabyte per second read and writes. 

[Ebenesh]

15 inch Macbook pro retina is about the best you'll get. There really isn't a good pc equivalent for that laptop, and you can simply install windows on the macbook pro.

It has a super high resolution screen which is great for CAD work, and has a quad core i7 processor (not the ultra low voltage i7 you will find in an ultrabook) , oh and also you can get a GTX 750M in it, and it has 8GB of ram. Not to mention it's really thin and light for a laptop that powerful.

Oh and also it has a 256GB PCIe SSD that gives nearly 1 gigabyte per second read and writes.

$1600 ! sure this won't cost more than that ??

[s3ns3]

15 inch Macbook pro retina is about the best you'll get. There really isn't a good pc equivalent for that laptop, and you can simply install windows on the macbook pro.

 

It has a super high resolution screen which is great for CAD work, and has a quad core i7 processor (not the ultra low voltage i7 you will find in an ultrabook) , oh and also you can get a GTX 750M in it, and it has 8GB of ram. Not to mention it's really thin and light for a laptop that powerful. 

 

Oh and also it has a 256GB PCIe SSD that gives nearly 1 gigabyte per second read and writes. 

it may have high res but for 2000$ you only get iris pro graphics lol. he needs CUDA. and the 3000$ one has only gtx 750m. lol again

[hawaiims]

it may have high res but for 2000$ you only get iris pro graphics lol. he needs CUDA. and the 3000$ one has only gtx 750m. lol again

Oops, I thought that there was a 750m in the base 15 inch model... 2600$ for a 750m is overpriced no matter what. 

[ZetZet]

High end laptop market really sucks when I look at it...

[s3ns3]

workstation with quadro card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA24G15S5819

 

ssd 128 gig+1 tb,gtx 770m http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152403

[Musikman]

Keep an eye out on the Lenovo Y-5XX series. They are good performance laptops and a refresh is on it's way in the coming months.

[Nathamio]

I need a laptop that has good battery life 4-5 hrs and the best performance I can get...

Is it better to wait for maxwell And broadwell'??

NEVER BUY A MACBOOK PRO, Get an origin pc with a gtx 770m or even a 780m. You can even get up to dual gtx 780m.

[s3ns3]

or wait for broadwell, intel always release mobile cpu first,but like zetzet said,gpus will be same/rebrands

[junky]

I need a laptop that has good battery life 4-5 hrs and the best performance I can get...

Is it better to wait for maxwell And broadwell'??

If you can wait - yes, wait. Both for the Maxwell (if not the first iteration, then the second) and Broadwell

 

What exactly do you need the performance for?

[aj2000]

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[s3ns3]

Do not by a MacBook, they are overpriced. But, Asus G series makes some really nice high performance ultra books. Get an i5. And make sure you get an SSD. 

nooo he should not get i5 for his work. all mobile i5 are dual core. all i7 are quad

[CartertheCOCguy]

wait for the lenovo y50..... it may not have fantastic battery life but it looks hella cool and cuda

[I'm so not human]

The msi gt70 has 5 hours of battery life, a Haswell i7 quad core, gtx 770m and plenty of ram.

[Biased Opinion]

nooo he should not get i5 for his work. all mobile i5 are dual core. all i7 are quad

some of the i7s are dual core. I think it was the 13 inch mbp that had them, not sure about anything else though