Surface Pro 4 or zBook 15u G2?

[Matthew Musselwhite]

Hello everyone!

Now it's no secret that I'm a macOS fan... Having a MacBook Pro and a home-made, custom built Hackintosh to run macOS with all the perks of having a PC. But I'm not stupid either and I can recognise when theres performance degradation thats becoming a problem and holds me from doing my work. So my budget is going to be £800, enough for second hand variants of the following systems: 256GB/8GB Microsoft Surface Pro 4 and the HP zBook 15u G2 Ultrabook.

Along with my college work, I need it to do 3D animations, modelling, After Effects and Premiere Pro. With sketching being a secondary concern, also on a side note I do wish to learn virtual sculpting and 2D Animations. Gaming is also secondary!

 

So wise people of the LTT-community, which do you think I should go for?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Do you also have a desktop?

 

If not, go zbook(or id probably get a e6440 if you can, much faster with a quad core)

 

If you do get a surface, smaller and its a tablet. I wouldn't want a surface as my only system.

[Oswin]

the surface will be more compact and light also comes with a pen, however the HP laptop will offer you more ram and slots and ports. both have pros and cons, a hard choice but judging from your needs i would go for the HP since it is more customizeable  

[Matthew Musselwhite]

8 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Do you also have a desktop?

 

Indeed I do, it is the aforementioned Hackintosh system. On a slightly unrelated note: I have named my entire desktop setup as "Mission Control"...