3D work laptop

[Dackzy]

Hi I am looking for a laptop that can run autocad with no problem. Here are my must haves:

Upgrade able ram and harddrive

1080p 13.3-14 inch screen.
Under 2kg
High end i5 or a normal i7
The build must be so good that if I drop it from 1.5m height or a little higher it will not break anything.
Ports for external screens
sd card reader
AC wifi

 

Nice things to have (not a must):

Touch screen

higher than 1080p res

m.2 ssd

convertible

Mousepad buttons you know like "older" laptops has like the w520 or t420s

Quadro gpu or a gtx gpu

 

 

[manikyath]

budget?

 

and i'd mostly recommend asus or msi, they're the only companies left to make laptops i dont passionately hate.

[Dackzy]

Just now, manikyath said:

budget?

 

and i'd mostly recommend asus or msi, they're the only companies left to make laptops i dont passionately hate.

I hate asus because if they can blame you for something they will do it. What do you have against lenovo? My budget well let's say €2k.

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, Dackzy said:

I hate asus because if they can blame you for something they will do it. What do you have against lenovo? My budget well let's say €2k.

lenovo's bloatware is legendary, and i've seen 6 lenovos die within a few months, all with more issues than you'd think possible on a single laptop.

 

and if you dont want asus to blame you for stupid things happening to your laptop, maybe you shouldnt do stupid things to your laptop

 

beyond that, go to the website of your retailer of choice, go to laptops, select msi, sort by price, scroll down to around your budget, what do we have to work with there?

[Dackzy]

Just now, manikyath said:

lenovo's bloatware is legendary, and i've seen 6 lenovos die within a few months, all with more issues than you'd think possible on a single laptop.

 

and if you dont want asus to blame you for stupid things happening to your laptop, maybe you shouldnt do stupid things to your laptop

 

beyond that, go to the website of your retailer of choice, go to laptops, select msi, sort by price, scroll down to around your budget, what do we have to work with there?

I had a long running chase with Asus where the jack was very loose they said they "fixed" it but they didn't and then they cracked my screen and the bezel around my screen. And they blamed me for all of that even though I showed them pictures of the laptop that dated back to 5 min before I gave them the laptop in their hands. I am very careful with my laptops.

I dont buy normal lenovo laptops, so I have never had any bloatware and a thinkpads lasts longer than normal people live. WIth MSI nothing since they cost more than 2k for one that is 14 or 13 inch and they weigh over 2kg

[manikyath]

Just now, Dackzy said:

I had a long running chase with Asus where the jack was very loose they said they "fixed" it but they didn't and then they cracked my screen and the bezel around my screen. And they blamed me for all of that even though I showed them pictures of the laptop that dated back to 5 min before I gave them the laptop in their hands. I am very careful with my laptops.

I dont buy normal lenovo laptops, so I have never had any bloatware and a thinkpads lasts longer than normal people live. WIth MSI nothing since they cost more than 2k for one that is 14 or 13 inch and they weigh over 2kg

lets come down to the cringe then: if you dont ever plan on running another OS than windows, acer is actually pretty good value for money, aside from they skimp on build quality a bit from time to time.

 

i have a second hand acer laptop that has 2 hard drive bays, m.2 slot (free), hard drive, i7, upgradable ram, 1080p display, good battery life.

 

just sad the keyboard and touchpad are a joke...

[Dackzy]

Just now, manikyath said:

just sad the keyboard and touchpad are a joke...

Yeah and that is the things I use the most.... And the build is a huge thing for me since I have to travel with my laptop every day.
I fix laptops in my free time sometimes and the most common brands are Acer, Asus and Dell... Acer because they are shitty made and their support is bad, Asus because their support will do jack shit about anything and Dell because after that one year warranty they like to put on their xps 13-15 they just break.

[TheWoollyMammoth]

46 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

The build must be so good that if I drop it from 1.5m height or a little higher it will not break anything.
 

If this is a must, there's the Panasonic Toughbook and pretty much nothing else.

[Dackzy]

Just now, TheWoollyMammoth said:

If this is a must, there's the Panasonic Toughbook and pretty much nothing else.

you can drop elitebooks, thinkpads and latitude laptops from 1.5m with no problem heck my t420s was a one time droped from 8m it took no damagde at all, they even showed the x1 carbon drop from I think it was 25m with no problem.

[TheWoollyMammoth]

Just now, Dackzy said:

you can drop elitebooks, thinkpads and latitude laptops from 1.5m with no problem heck my t420s was a one time droped from 8m it took no damagde at all, they even showed the x1 carbon drop from I think it was 25m with no problem.

That's just crazy luck, nothing more.

[Dackzy]

Just now, TheWoollyMammoth said:

That's just crazy luck, nothing more.

Nope that is how well they are build all thinkpads have a roll cage in them with a rubber edge on the outside of the roll cage and the inside. The plastic on the outside are meant to crack so the impact is not as hard as it would be otherwise.

[TheWoollyMammoth]

1 minute ago, Dackzy said:

Nope that is how well they are build all thinkpads have a roll cage in them with a rubber edge on the outside of the roll cage and the inside. The plastic on the outside are meant to crack so the impact is not as hard as it would be otherwise.

They are built so that they might withstand such a fall, not so that they will.

 

That's a huge difference.

[Dackzy]

Just now, TheWoollyMammoth said:

They are built so that they might withstand such a fall, not so that they will.

 

That's a huge difference.

I have never seen a thinkpad that didn't survive a fall from at least 2m, I have seen one that was dropped from 10 m where there was a little crack in the screen, but nothing with damage from 2m or less.

[TheWoollyMammoth]

1 minute ago, Dackzy said:

I have never seen a thinkpad that didn't survive a fall from at least 2m, I have seen one that was dropped from 10 m where there was a little crack in the screen, but nothing with damage from 2m or less.

Well,  in that case it shouldn't be an issue then. 

[Dackzy]

Just now, TheWoollyMammoth said:

Well,  in that case it shouldn't be an issue then. 

Yeah it's just what model would be good for 3D work that are still small and under 2kg I dont really care what brand it's from, just that it is well build.