Laptop recommendation

[yehos]

Greetings my felow LTT fans,

I'm currently looking to buy a new laptop. I own a Lenovo Y700-15isk since 2017. It's a good machine I upgraded the RAM and M.2 SSD, but the new intel 12th gen is too tempting. I've liked a lot Lenovo so I was thinking to buy the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro with an i7 12700H and 3060. My use for the laptop (besides gaming and content consumtion) will be data analysis and scientific paper writing. I mainly use R and QGIS but sometime Python and some propietary software. Any recomendation from you guys? My must are: full aluminium frame, big screen and numpad. I would love windows hello recognition but I can live without it.

many thanks,

J (spain)

[YoungBlade]

For those use cases, the 12700H and 3060 combo makes a lot of sense. The 3060 is a decent gaming GPU with the ability to use DLSS for pushing more frames, and the 12700H is basically on par with the 12900HK, so you're getting the best CPU you can.

 

The key is to make sure that you have enough RAM for your work, and that it's fast. What's the configuration like there?

[yehos]

I was going to get the max 32 Gb (16+16), at first I was thinking 16 and upgrade later but I thought that DDR5 won't get cheaper any time soon.... I don't think upgrading to 3070 Ti is necesary for me, but maybe I'm worng. Also there's the option of i9 but I think is preatty overkill in my case.

[ErykYT3]

40 minutes ago, yehos said:

I was going to get the max 32 Gb (16+16), at first I was thinking 16 and upgrade later but I thought that DDR5 won't get cheaper any time soon.... I don't think upgrading to 3070 Ti is necesary for me, but maybe I'm worng. Also there's the option of i9 but I think is preatty overkill in my case.

It's a laptop. You'll be limited by so many factors regardless of how high spec your system is, an i9 = an entry next gen i7 anyway so..