Thin and light quad core thunderbolt 3 laptop

[jan-pieter14]

Hello everyone,

Am I the only one who thinks the ideal setup would be a quad core, thin and light laptop to carry around, preferably without an internal gpu to accomodate a larger battery and lower the price tag; paired with an external gpu dock via thunderbolt 3?

Apparently I am because I don't think any manufacturer has released such a laptop, or is there some mythical beast I don't know about?

I know there are laptops like the Razer Blade Stealth and the XPS 13 but they all have dual cores with hyperthreading.

And with more games taking advantage of 4 processing cores I think these won't last very long. 

Then you could say why not buy the normal Razer Blade or an XPS 15, well they have internal gpu's and I'd rather trade an internal gpu for a lower price tag and longer battery life.

So have you guys seen a thin and light, portable, 1080p (again to keep cost down, save battery life and i think 4k doesn't make sense on a laptop screen), thunderbolt3, afordable laptop, post the link below!

Thanks a lot and enjoy your day!

[Droidbot]

4 minutes ago, jan-pieter14 said:

I think manufacturers these won't last very long. 

 

That's the point. 3 years later they're in the hole again for x amount of money.

 

MSI GS30 Shadow, but they're getting rarer. $1700 is obscene for a laptop without a GPU, but the dock does come with it. 

It has a quad-core Haswell CPU that can keep up with the i5 desktop parts and maybe even an i7 part if it's an older one. It has a proprietary GPU docking port though.. 

 

 

[MrPants_]

Now i don't know where you're from, and i don't know if norwegians have access to the best deals, but in Norway, the cheapest option here it is the Asus ROG Strix GL702VM-GC004T, which already comes with a 1060. Seems like there are not many really good options for your criteria :I

[jan-pieter14]

2 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

MSI GS30 Shadow, but they're getting rarer. $1700 is obscene for a laptop without a GPU, but the dock does come with it. 

 

Right, I forgot about that one. But like you say $1700 for a laptop without gpu is insane, that's like Macbook Pro territory and we don't want to go there do we?

[Droidbot]

2 minutes ago, jan-pieter14 said:

Right, I forgot about that one. But like you say $1700 for a laptop without gpu is insane, that's like Macbook Pro territory and we don't want to go there do we?

Well someone has one used for 1.1k, but it's still expensive. I have a HP 2570p, and it's a 12.5" laptop with support for quadcore CPUs and external GPU enclosures. 

It was $250 refurbished, and mine came with one small bump on the top cover. GPU dock was $50, and my 770 was meant to go into it but it died the day it left my PC. imo it's one of the best value little pocket rockets there is, and it smashes the MBP 13. 

[jan-pieter14]

5 minutes ago, MrAwesomepants said:

Seems like there are not many really good options for your criteria :I

Indeed there aren't. And Linus said it himself on a recent WANshow, he also thinks a thin and light paired with a gpu dock is the future of gaming, so it does make sense to at least try and manufacture one at a reasonable price.

Btw i'm from Belgium, to give you an idea 1080's cost at least 740 euro here, the cheapest 1060 laptops are around 1600 euro, crazy pricing compared to the US...

[jan-pieter14]

3 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

Well someone has one used for 1.1k, but it's still expensive. I have a HP 2570p, and it's a 12.5" laptop with support for quadcore CPUs and external GPU enclosures. 

It was $250 refurbished, and mine came with one small bump on the top cover. GPU dock was $50, and my 770 was meant to go into it but it died the day it left my PC. imo it's one of the best value little pocket rockets there is, and it smashes the MBP 13. 

Via expresscard? Lower bandwith then thunderbolt 3 ofcourse but as a secondary machine i guess it would be a start.

[MrPants_]

4 minutes ago, jan-pieter14 said:

Btw i'm from Belgium, to give you an idea 1080's cost at least 740 euro here, the cheapest 1060 laptops are around 1600 euro, crazy pricing compared to the US...

 Wow the cheapest laptops here are actually cheaper around 1360 EUR and cheapest 1080's 800 EUR

[Droidbot]

2 minutes ago, jan-pieter14 said:

Via expresscard? Lower bandwith then thunderbolt 3 ofcourse but as a secondary machine i guess it would be a start.

Yeah, ExpressCard. It manages to negotiate a x1 2.0 link, and it doesn't bottleneck it that much.. 

I'm using it so when I go to my dad's place I don't have to use a first gen i7 and a 650ti.. and hey, who's gonna steal a shell with a GPU and a PSU...

[jan-pieter14]

5 minutes ago, MrAwesomepants said:

 Wow the cheapest laptops here are actually cheaper around 1360 EUR and cheapest 1080's 800 EUR

Hahaha, pricing in Europe is a mess... It would almost make you think about going on vacation to the states and bringing a few things with you.

[jan-pieter14]

1 minute ago, Droidbot said:

Yeah, ExpressCard. It manages to negotiate a x1 2.0 link, and it doesn't bottleneck it that much.. 

I'm using it so when I go to my dad's place I don't have to use a first gen i7 and a 650ti.. and hey, who's gonna steal a shell with a GPU and a PSU...

True that! Thanks for the suggestion!

[MrPants_]

2 minutes ago, jan-pieter14 said:

It would almost make you think about going on vacation to the states and bringing a few things with you.

Would be like 30 EUR cheaper to travel to the US, buy the stuff and return home to build my computer, but then you'd have to buy food and such and you know eeeh

[Droidbot]

2 minutes ago, jan-pieter14 said:

True that! Thanks for the suggestion!

just keep in mind on the HP machines you can only use up to 700 series cards as AMD and anything newer requires more RAM at boot. you can circumvent this by having a program load the OS with a different memory structure, but it's really annoying. 

[jan-pieter14]

7 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

just keep in mind on the HP machines you can only use up to 700 series cards as AMD and anything newer requires more RAM at boot. you can circumvent this by having a program load the OS with a different memory structure, but it's really annoying. 

No problem, i've found 780 ti's in the neighbourhood for 150 euro so that's alright 

[jan-pieter14]

11 minutes ago, MrAwesomepants said:

Would be like 30 EUR cheaper to travel to the US, buy the stuff and return home to build my computer, but then you'd have to buy food and such and you know eeeh

30 hamburgers in the McDonalds and a trip, i'm buying tickets

[Droidbot]

2 minutes ago, jan-pieter14 said:

No problem, i've found 780 ti's in the neighbourhood for 150 euro so that's alright 

Lucky! In AU, we have a really bad second-hand hardware market. 770s for like $190, I've seen a dual 760 ASUS mars card for $240, Titan went for a brutal $460.. an original GTX titan. On par with the 970. fml.. 780s are going for $230 + shipping, and 780ti is $300. 

[jan-pieter14]

12 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

Lucky! In AU, we have a really bad second-hand hardware market. 770s for like $190, I've seen a dual 760 ASUS mars card for $240, Titan went for a brutal $460.. an original GTX titan. On par with the 970. fml.. 780s are going for $230 + shipping, and 780ti is $300. 

Yeah Belgium and especially Flanders is really densely populated so the concurrention is high

[Lillchillers]

Buy the Dell XPS 15 without a gpu, yes this is possible, around 1200€, but wait for reviewers to check if the new one has a Thunderbolt connection with full speed. The old one doesn't. 

[jan-pieter14]

5 hours ago, Lillchillers said:

Buy the Dell XPS 15 without a gpu, yes this is possible, around 1200€, but wait for reviewers to check if the new one has a Thunderbolt connection with full speed. The old one doesn't. 

Wher i live the cheapest option is 1600 euro with the 960m

[Pendragon]

Second hand zbook studio. I have more in mind but boarding a flight LOL. 

[MrPants_]

https://www.asus.com/Notebooks/ASUS-ZenBook-3-Deluxe-UX490UA/ THERE WE GO! Fits all criterias aaaaaand holy shit it costs 1300 USD. We tried?

[Droidbot]

4 minutes ago, MrAwesomepants said:

https://www.asus.com/Notebooks/ASUS-ZenBook-3-Deluxe-UX490UA/ THERE WE GO! Fits all criterias aaaaaand holy shit it costs 1300 USD. We tried?

u series chip.. dual-core with ht. not a quad. 

[MrPants_]

1 minute ago, Droidbot said:

u series chip.. dual-core with ht. not a quad.

DAMN YOU MARKETING SHIT AS i7 AND MAKING U AND HQ SEPERATE THINGS.

Btw, maybe you could do something like Droidbot posted in his post? Not thin and light but it's something?

[Pendragon]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12G1VTFWkTL5tb8nxUAtnDHwTLyya9I3Vw-OXXrIN4e4/edit#gid=0

and no, there is no such laptop as of yet. Dell was slated to release the E5470 with TB3 but never did so rip. 

[Imglidinhere]

On 1/9/2017 at 5:10 AM, jan-pieter14 said:

30 hamburgers in the McDonalds and a trip, i'm buying tickets

McDonalds doesn't use actual meat in their hamburgers. Trust me. It's... something else...  >.>;