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Cheapest Thunderbolt 3 Laptop with Quard Core Processor

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I want to buy a laptop, which is easy to take at work and have strong processor for gaming. I think a thunderbolt 3 laptop will do job for me but I don't want to spent lots of money on it (as I will also buy Razer core as soon as possible) so can anyone suggest me a cheapest thunderbolt 3 laptop with atleast quard core cpu, having good cooling solution and have ram expansion option.

 

Screen size, keyboard, trackpad, RGB etc etc not important.

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If you are looking for something cheap, why are you buying a razer core?

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Anything with a Quad core will likely be a gaming laptop anyway. (pretty much all cheap/portable laptops use U series processors which are dual core. And you'd be better off with something cheaper than the Razer Core, way overpriced.

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2 minutes ago, Malibooroo said:

Anything with a Quad core will likely be a gaming laptop anyway. And you'd be better off with something cheaper than the Razer Core, way overpriced.

I disagree. Look around in the Dell inspiron series. I'm not sure if they have thunderbolt, but you can find some with nice processors and such.

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2 minutes ago, Pauleh said:

I disagree. Look around in the Dell inspiron series. I'm not sure if they have thunderbolt, but you can find some with nice processors and such.

All the Dell Inspiron series use dual core processors apart from the 7000 gaming line.

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What are you trying to achieve here? Gaming on a budget while still needing a laptop for work? Or high end gaming at home with portability for work?

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1 minute ago, Malibooroo said:

What are you trying to achieve here? Gaming on a budget while still needing a laptop for work? Or high end gaming at home with portability for work?

I'd like to know this as well. If you want Thunderbolt for an external GPU, then you will be very disappointed. They suck, and in a few years the bandwidth won't be enough anyway. 

 

Quad core CPU's output more heat, and therefore require more cooling. That makes the laptop heavier and louder. The only people who generally put up with that are people buying a gaming laptop, so they usually have GPU's in them too. 

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22 minutes ago, Dhruv Ghayal said:

quard core

I bet a 2core 4 thread mobile i7 will be enough for your use case. The 6560u in my xps 13 is already a mess to cool.

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20 minutes ago, Malibooroo said:

All the Dell Inspiron series use dual core processors apart from the 7000 gaming line.

Hmm, I guess you're right, thought I recalled that they had some... Nice dual cores tho and they could get the job done fine. i7 7500u @ 3.5GHz dual core hyperthreaded will rock any game. 

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9 minutes ago, Pauleh said:

Hmm, I guess you're right, thought I recalled that they had some... Nice dual cores tho and they could get the job done fine. i7 7500u @ 3.5GHz dual core hyperthreaded will rock any game. 

Yea I agree! If you're looking for an ultra portable. Really nice way to go, best of both worlds! :) 

 

If you're looking for a budget laptop though, You'll only be getting an i5 7200u, which would hamper the performance of an eGPU. Then once you factor in the price of the eGPU and the graphics card itself, it makes no sense financially or performance wise. May as well just get a gaming laptop to begin with.

 

But this however "laptop with atleast quard core cpu, having good cooling solution and have ram expansion option."

 

He's just describing a gaming laptop xD

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Dell 5480 with akitio node

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7 hours ago, Pendragon said:

Dell 5480 with akitio node

Dells Website is impossibly stupid to use and I can't find the way to get Thunderbolt on that thing. 

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7 hours ago, DrMacintosh said:

Dells Website is impossibly stupid to use and I can't find the way to get Thunderbolt on that thing. 

it says TB3 with nvidia 930. Yes it's absolutely terrible I know. Dell has 0 idea how to build websites unfortunately. 

 

i also would never pay MSRP for it. Dell outlet is available. 

 

 

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On 7/4/2017 at 2:14 PM, Dhruv Ghayal said:

I want to buy a laptop, which is easy to take at work and have strong processor for gaming. I think a thunderbolt 3 laptop will do job for me but I don't want to spent lots of money on it (as I will also buy Razer core as soon as possible) so can anyone suggest me a cheapest thunderbolt 3 laptop with atleast quard core cpu, having good cooling solution and have ram expansion option.

 

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One question, why you want TB3? Just get a laptop with decent GPU inside

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