Laptop dilemma

[Dackzy]

So I have always been business only laptop kinda guy, but there aren't really any business laptops that have the specs I want on the used marked right now and I would like to keep my laptop under 1200€ or so because then I can buy a new desktop.

The options I have right now are:

 

Asus ROG Strix GL553VE with i7 7700HQ, 1050ti 4GB, 256GB ssd and 8GB of ram.

Pros: Decent cooling, fairly okay made, good specs, the price only 1040€. 

Cons: short battery life(3-3½ hours), Asus, noisy fan, no docking port, USB Type-C(GEN 1)

 

Clevo P640HK1 with i7 7700HQ, 1050ti 4GB, 256GB NVMe ssd and 8GB of ram.

Pros: easy maintenance, well-made, 14", good specs, priced at 1200€, good looking display, USB Type-C(GEN 2)

Cons: short battery life (3 hours), slow response display, bad keyboard, have to be bought outside Denmark, no docking port

 

Or continue to look for a used T460p, P50, P70, precision 7510 which may or may not turn up before I need more power and make me miss the deal on the ROG which ends today...

 

Let me hear your thoughts

 

(A dell 7567 with the same specs cost 1500-1600€ here)

[Droidbot]

12 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

Cons: Asus

+1

 

IMHO grab your phone, call Lenovo's Sales Team for your region, try to negotiate a deal on a T460p or T470p. Seriously, they will drop couple hundreds off price tags, change deals, etc. Just give it a try. I've seen them go from $2300AUD to $1999AUD for a i7-quad T460p

Otherwise go for the Clevo. 

[Jurrunio]

Out of the 2, get Asus. A slow response screen and bad keyboard pretty much seals the Clevo's fate for good.

[Dackzy]

3 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

+1

 

IMHO grab your phone, call Lenovo's Sales Team for your region, try to negotiate a deal on a T460p or T470p. Seriously, they will drop couple hundreds off price tags, change deals, etc. Just give it a try. I've seen them go from $2300AUD to $1999AUD for a i7-quad T460p

Otherwise go for the Clevo. 

 

hmm might try that. Sadly they don't have the T460p or T470p on the danish website, the T460p has been removed and they have yet to launch the T470p on their danish website.

I would have to get their T460p down to 1200€ with an i7 and big battery, going to call them later today and see if I can't work out a deal with them.

[Dackzy]

3 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Get Asus. A slow response screen and bad keyboard pretty much seals the Clevo's fate for good.

and Asus's support and reliability isn't really a strong point, which is where Clevo(in this case obsidian-pc) is among some of the best....

I need this laptop to last me atleast 3 years

[Jurrunio]

29 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

and Asus's support and reliability isn't really a strong point, which is where Clevo(in this case obsidian-pc) is among some of the best....

I need this laptop to last me atleast 3 years

content://med As long as you dont do silly things to it, an Asus will definitely last for 3 years.

content://media/external/file/922 If you want something that will last long and has good performance, get laptop with MQ or MX cpu. They can be swapped out like desktop CPUs, so you can repair it even if the manufacuterer no longer supports it

[Dackzy]

4 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

content://med As long as you dont do silly things to it, an Asus will definitely last for 3 years.

content://media/external/file/922 If you want something that will last long and has good performance, get laptop with MQ or MX cpu. They can be swapped out like desktop CPUs, so you can repair it even if the manufacuterer no longer supports it

 

No it is not a given that asus will last 3 years, most of their laptops have bad temps and rather meh/bad QC, which leads to an early retirement.

 

Yes i know that MQ and MX CPUs can be swapped out, but those CPUs stopped being in laptops after Haswell (4th gen) (fuck you intel). (I fix laptops after all). There might come some PGA Ryzen laptops....

[Dackzy]

@iunlock I am very interested in what you think.