Future Proofing Laptop

[Guest]

I need help finding my next laptop. Anyone know a laptop that has these things. Unlimited Budget, but very peculiar requirements.

 

Screen Size: Anything really

CPU: Quad-Core with Hyperthreading (i7-6700HQ eg.)

RAM: 16gb+

Wifi Card: Needs to be decent (anything better than the Dell 7559 really)

GPU: Highly Prefer to not have a dGPU (Preferably an iGPU like Iris Pro graphics to reduce power consumption)

Battery Life: 8+ hours of like an excel workload

IO: Must have TB3 for future eGPU enclosure setup

 

Whatever laptop in this video would literally be the perfect laptop for me. Is it out? Because I can't find it.

 

Thanks in advance.

[DarkBlade2117]

Alright.... I will try to say this before anyone else does.

Do you REALLY need a laptop? Do you travel a lot and to the point that only a laptop is your option? If you want an external GPU you must not travel to much.

Because for a laptop at this price point, you'll save so much money on a desktop.

[Guest]

I do travel a lot and a mobile setup is most preferable, most of the time of working from transportation or away from home. The price is a non-issue, its a work thing. I considered Lenovo's P series workstation laptops. But I love gaming though, and I highly doubt that a workstation class laptop with a Xeon in it would have driver support in the future. An XPS15 or Razer Blade 14 2016 would be great if it wasn't for the poor battery life on both of them.

[sirtoby]

11 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

I do travel a lot and a mobile setup is most preferable, most of the time of working from transportation or away from home. The price is a non-issue, its a work thing. I considered Lenovo's P series workstation laptops. But I love gaming though, and I highly doubt that a workstation class laptop with a Xeon in it would have driver support in the future. An XPS15 or Razer Blade 14 2016 would be great if it wasn't for the poor battery life on both of them.

If that's the case then you might want to take  look at HP's ZBook 15 Laptops. You can get a config (at least in Germany) with a i7-6700HQ and Intel HD graphics. It has two TB3 ports, and HP offers a pretty interesting docking station which uses one of the two ports. The laptop is at least 2000€ though...

[Guest]

14 minutes ago, sirtoby said:

If that's the case then you might want to take  look at HP's ZBook 15 Laptops. You can get a config (at least in Germany) with a i7-6700HQ and Intel HD graphics. It has two TB3 ports, and HP offers a pretty interesting docking station which uses one of the two ports. The laptop is at least 2000€ though...

That would be amazing. But the last question would be would eGPU support come to it in the form of mainstream drivers. Most of these rigs are meant for Quadros.

[sirtoby]

1 hour ago, Pendragon said:

That would be amazing. But the last question would be would eGPU support come to it in the form of mainstream drivers. Most of these rigs are meant for Quadros.

From what I've seen with the current eGPU solutions through thunderbolt, it seems like drivers are barely an issue at all. The thunderbolt controller will require a driver, but with that installed, the laptop should view the gpu like it was connected through a PCIe 3.0 4x link. Thunderbolt is basically just an extension of the PCIe bus, so with the thunderbolt (and gpu of course) drivers  installed, the card should work as if it  were installed in a pcie slot.

[Hamako]

The ThinkPad P50 offers Xeon processors, up to 64GB of RAM, has high end WiFi cards, offers TB3 and even manages to achieve over 8h of battery life. You can only get it with a Quadro M1000M or M2000M. However, if you don't need it then just don't use it. Cheaper configurations with lower specs are also available.