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Ok guys its new laptop time and I'm taking suggestions i'm thinking of a dell xps 13 or xps 15 any one got much experience with these or some other ideas. I have seen what Linus said about the xps 13 already so just seeing what other people are thinking.

 

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what are you going to use the laptop for, needs and wants for a laptop, etc.

 

 

I'm in Australia as far as the budget goes lets try to keep it under $2500aus and start there.

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Samsung Galaxy S8 | Stock

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Ok guys its new laptop time and I'm taking suggestions i'm thinking of a dell xps 13 or xps 15 any one got much experience with these or some other ideas. I have seen what Linus said about the xps 13 already so just seeing what other people are thinking.

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give us the informations exercutor5 asked for ;)

 

State information like budget, currency, where you're from, what are you going to use the laptop for, needs and wants for a laptop, etc.

yup

the xps15 was up to 2,3k euro

so we might have a budget of 2 grand

 

depending on your usage you could go for a clevo771

 

there are newer available with skylake cpu and 980m etc

a mate got 1 with an 6500k, 980M, 16GB 2133DDR4 RAM 500GB Crucial BX SSD, 1TB 7200rpm seagate HDD, 17" HD IPS Panel + Gsync for hm 2300 euro +3year warranty

he played AC syndicate maxed and other newer titles and with the rgb iluminated keyboard he works fine in the dark

 

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Frost | 7700K @ 4.9GHz 1.36v, delidded | Asus DUAL GTX 1060 6GB OC | Corsair LPX 16GB DDR4 2800MHz | Samsung 960 EVO 250GB SSD + Toshiba 1TB HDD + Toshiba 2TB HDD + Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SSD for macOS | Asus PRIME Z270-A | Fractal Design Celsius S24 | Seasonic M12-II 620W PSU | Corsair 400C White | NZXT Hue+

Samsung Galaxy S8 | Stock

Ticwatch E (Black) | Ticwatch Brown Leather Strap

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