Laptop CPU Help

[L1ghtwing]

I'm currently looking at buying a laptop for when I go to uni in September.  Current main contenders are the Hp Spectre x360 (I like the pen functionality), the new Razer blade stealth and the xps line up.  

 

However my main concern with buying the Hp or a 13 inch laptop is the CPU.  I intend on buying something like a razor core in a year or so to use for gaming and are worried about possible CPU bottlenecking with the dual core's which are present in the Hp and 13in laptops (i7-7500U) compared with the quad core in the xps 15 (i7-7700HQ).  I'm also not sure if as I'm going to be studying physics if the additional cores would be needed a couple of years down the line or if the i7-7500U would cope just fine.  

 

I welcome any advice or other suggestions.

 

Cheers

[imluvian]

If you run a lot of simulations, you would definitely wanna have a quad-core standard voltage spec CPU, according to my personal experiences of running several electronic design automation software.

The U cpus struggles to maintain its highest frequency under high loads.

[genexis_x]

20 minutes ago, L1ghtwing said:

new Razer blade stealth

avoid this, it overheats

i7 HQ is always better than i7 ULV

[Jurrunio]

Don't use eGPU adapters. They are not as good value as buying a laptop with graphics card inside them.

 

Razer laptops are designed to be "Macbook design, Windows performance", but end up being neither.

[L1ghtwing]

7 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Don't use eGPU adapters. They are not as good value as buying a laptop with graphics card inside them.

 

Razer laptops are designed to be "Macbook design, Windows performance", but end up being neither.

 

The point of the eGPU was to allow me to buy a thinner and lighter laptop just now (or a 2-in-1 like the spectre), then have that as a kind of as an upgrade in a few years once I move out of my PS4.  Also hopefully by then the value on these eGPU's will have gotten a lot better.

[Arika]

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