Best 2016 Laptop ($2500)

[AndyKala]

I want an amazing laptop for under $2500, I am also OK with Apple. I actually prefer Apple sometimes. I also don't want anything bigger than 15 inches, or smaller than 13 inches. I'll be using this laptop for school, very light gaming, video editing, and web-surfing. I don't want something too bulky either. Any suggestions?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Dell 5510 or macbook pro retina 15 or razerblate 14. Gigabye aurours 14.

[AppleWhizzer]

As suggested above by Wizardy i would be looking at a razerblade

[AndyKala]

10 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Dell 5510 or macbook pro retina 15 or razerblate 14. Gigabye aurours 14.

I liked the Razerblade a lot. Which would be a better buy, Dell XPS 15 9950, or the Razerblade. Both are about the same specs, but the Razer has a GTX 970M.

[Pendragon]

15 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Dell 5510 or macbook pro retina 15 or razerblate 14. Gigabye aurours 14.

Literally none of these.

Dell 5510 is a business grade notebook with tons of additional capabilities that you'll pay for but not need, get the XPS 15

Macbook Pro 15 (about to be refreshed but this is an excellent choice so wait for the refresh)

Razer Blade 14 and Aorus 14 will overheat to all hell, be loud as hell, shitty battery life. Touching the underside of these laptops after extended gaming sessions or GPU accelerated video editing workloads will uncomfortably hot not to mention the fans are small and shitty and loud as hell. The thing thermal throttles, and while the materials are premium, quality control is substandard. 

 

There's really two choices here at your budget and requirements

XPS15

- 15 inch screen in a 14inch form factor

- 4k or 1080p screen choice (1080p is great. I had one. ONLY reason why you would need a 4k screen is for professional photo or video work for that color accuracy and sRGB and NTFS coverage, ONLY reason. If you do get the 4k screen you'll have to deal with window scaling issues)

- Premium build

- 960m for your light gaming

- Doesn't overheat and sound like a jet engine

- 7-8 hours battery on the 1080p version, 5-6 hours on 4k version on a medium workload (work, excel, ppt, etc)

 

2016 Macbook Pro 15inch (just wait a month or two for the refresh)

- Premium Build

- God-Tier video editing because of Apple and Final Cut Pro optimization

- Assumed great battery as was the case with every Macbook ever

- Assumed will have the new Polaris 11 GPU for "light" gaming

 

There's more options if you want a beefier GPU, this is one of them

 

Clevo P640RE

- 14inch screen

- 970m

- Doesn't overheat or sound like a jet engine

- Built much better and while not aluminum, most Clevo rebrands will have good quality control

Edited July 9, 2016 by Pendragon
including P640RE

[AndyKala]

2 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

Literally none of these.

Dell 5510 is a business grade notebook with tons of additional capabilities that you'll pay for but not need as a student, get the XPS 15

Macbook Pro 15 (about to be refreshed but this is an excellent choice so wait for the refresh)

Razer Blade 14 and Aorus 14 will overheat to all hell, be loud as hell, shitty battery life. Touching the underside of these laptops after extended gaming sessions or GPU accelerated video editing workloads will uncomfortably hot not to mention the fans are small and shitty and loud as hell. The thing thermal throttles, and while the materials are premium, quality control is substandard. 

 

There's really two choices here at your budget and requirements

XPS15

- 15 inch screen in a 14inch form factor

- 4k or 1080p screen choice (1080p is great. I had one. ONLY reason why you would need a 4k screen is for professional photo or video work for that color accuracy and sRGB and NTFS coverage, ONLY reason. If you do get the 4k screen you'll have to deal with window scaling issues)

- Premium build

- 960m for your light gaming

- Doesn't overheat and sound like a jet engine

- 7-8 hours battery on the 1080p version, 5-6 hours on 4k version on a medium workload (work, excel, ppt, etc)

 

2016 Macbook Pro 15inch (just wait a month or two for the refresh)

- Premium Build

- God-Tier video editing because of Apple and Final Cut Pro optimization

- Assumed great battery as was the case with every Macbook ever

- Assumed will have the new Polaris 11 GPU for "light" gaming

I know I said I don't mind 15 inch, but do you think the 13 inch Pro refresh will have a quad core i7? All current 13 inch Macs only have dual cores. I like the compact size of 13 inches.

[LizardsAreOP]

i recommend saving money and getting a Acer Aspire V nitro its $800 it has a i7,960M which is perfect for light gaming and is very slim with a IPS Display here the Link but its 0.6 inches bigger than your sweet spot...

[Pendragon]

1 minute ago, AndyKala said:

I know I said I don't mind 15 inch, but do you think the 13 inch Pro refresh will have a quad core i7? All current 13 inch Macs only have dual cores. I like the compact size of 13 inches.

Personally I highly doubt it. Apple's been putting dual-cores in the 13inch for a long time and I'll doubt that'll change.

[AndyKala]

1 minute ago, Pendragon said:

Personally I highly doubt it. Apple's been putting dual-cores in the 13inch for a long time and I'll doubt that'll change.

Are their ANY 13 inch Laptops with a quad core i7 and a GPU? 

[Pendragon]

23 minutes ago, LizardsAreOP said:

i recommend saving money and getting a Acer Aspire V nitro its $800 it has a i7,960M which is perfect for light gaming and is very slim with a IPS Display here the Link but its 0.6 inches bigger than your sweet spot...

Nope. And generally only the top tier aplple 15inch one has a GPU. 

[AndyKala]

4 minutes ago, LizardsAreOP said:

i recommend saving money and getting a Acer Aspire V nitro its $800 it has a i7,960M which is perfect for light gaming and is very slim with a IPS Display here the Link but its 0.6 inches bigger than your sweet spot...

Nah, I want an SSD in my laptop.

[LizardsAreOP]

1 minute ago, Pendragon said:

Nope. And generally only the top tier 15inch one has a GPU. 

What the fuck does this mean? "only the top tier 25inch one has a GPU"

[Pendragon]

As in the more expensive one...jeez.

[LizardsAreOP]

Then get a Acer Predator 15 Link

[AndyKala]

2 minutes ago, LizardsAreOP said:

Then get a Acer Predator 15 Link

There's no way in hell I can carry that around. That's a full blown gaming laptop.

[LizardsAreOP]

1 minute ago, AndyKala said:

There's no way in hell I can carry around. That's a full blown gaming laptop.

Ok so you want a Slim laptop,$2500 budget,15" or less but 13" or more,SSD included good luck finding that...the slim dont either have a SSD or dont have a good GPU

[Pendragon]

http://www.eurocom.com/ec/configure(2,350,0)ec

http://www.hidevolution.com/evoc-clevo-p641re-custom-built-gaming-laptop.html

https://www.mythlogic.com/2015_Models/dia1415s.php

http://avell.com/extreme-g1410-fire-v3

^ these are various retailers that sell the P640RE with decent Bios and Software in US

 

Is slim, decent looking, has an SSD, 970m, doesn't overheat or throttle, fans arent unbearably loud. Is cheaper than the Razer Blade.

[AndyKala]

2 minutes ago, LizardsAreOP said:

Ok so you want a Slim laptop,$2500 budget,15" or less but 13" or more,SSD included good luck finding that...the slim dont either have a SSD or dont have a good GPU

I don't need an amazing GPU. I clearly said "light gaming".

[LizardsAreOP]

4 minutes ago, AndyKala said:

I don't need an amazing GPU. I clearly said "light gaming".

Some of them dont even have a GPU , Just search on amazon laptops and check everything im done with this thread

[LordLeewee]

Dell XPS 15, smaller than your typical 15" laptop, pretty close to the 13" macbook air in size. mine has 1080p screen 512gb nvme m.2, 16gb ram, gtx 960m, and a 6700hq i7 at $1800

battery lasts forever if youre not using the dedicated gpu(12 hours), screen is great, trackpad is on par with macbook, and it weighs nothing for a 15" 

[LordLeewee]

handle gta 5 just fine at medium settings

[Pendragon]

30 minutes ago, LordLeewee said:

battery lasts forever if youre not using the dedicated gpu(12 hours)

i had one too, isn't this a bit of an exageration? 

[LordLeewee]

15 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

i had one too, isn't this a bit of an exageration? 

depends what youre doing, ive sat and used it on a 6 hour train journey doing work on word and a touch of photo editing with some videos in between, got to my destination with over 50% remaining. with brightness down and bluetooth and/or wifi off it can last a long time. 

theres 2 different batteries in the 1080 model, a 56wh and an 84wh version i have the 84