Laptop buying guide for CPU intensive task

[Abhinav Sharma]

I am a researcher and planning to upgrade from a 6 year old Lenovo y50-70 laptop.

I will be using this laptop primarily for programming (C++, MATLAB, R and some other statistical software), word processing  and multimedia (no gaming).

Most of the software I use are compatible with MacOS too .

I want a robust, thin and light laptop with good battery life. I want screen to be vibrant and should cover maximum Adobe RGB color space.

As I will be using the laptop for CPU intensive tasks, I want an i7 processor with more than 4 cores (for parallel processing) and high frequency.

I prefer aspect ratio other than 16:9 as I need more vertical space on screen. Screen size should be greater than 14 inch.

 

Some brands I am considering to buy: Lenovo Thinkpad, Dell Precision, Microsoft Surface, Apple Macbook Pro

 

Pleas suggest some good laptop models.

 

 

PS: Is Apple going to launch Macbook pro 14 inch in next 1 year?

[GDRRiley]

get a g14 or g15 with a r9

I7 are slow compared to a ryzen 7 or 9. that is also some 2017 laptop requirements

[Nick Neuburg]

I suggest the rog zephryus g14. it has the ryzen 4900hs or the xmg apex 15 with a full on desktop 3950 with 16 cores

when it comes to anything other than gameing intel is usally slower

these may be bigger and more expensive but very good for production

for cheaper try and find something with a ryzen 7