Laptop for high school

[StormCloaker]

Hey I'm looking for a laptop for high school that can handle some light games and hearts of iron 4, preferably 14-15 inch with Linux support , that has 4x tb3 for egpu , I'd also like for it to last me till college (2-3 years).

[genexis_x]

Where are you from? Budget? Any special requirements? (weight, battery life etc)

[StormCloaker]

10 minutes ago, ZM Fong said:

Where are you from? Budget? Any special requirements? (weight, battery life etc)

EU , my budget is quite high I think , around 1800-2500 euro (however it should last me those 3 years then ) , I'd like a hexa core i7 + 512 gb nvme and 16 gb of ram , I'm not sure about gpu (I don't need AAA games just space engineers besieged and hoi 4 ) . I'd love a wqhd/4k touch screen , but not a requirement and it has to run linux , I personally considered an xps .

[genexis_x]

Forgot to ask, what's your usage? Also, which country are you from? (Europe is big)

[StormCloaker]

10 minutes ago, ZM Fong said:

Forgot to ask, what's your usage? Also, which country are you from? (Europe is big)

Word processing , browsing , screwing around in Linux , programming some light gaming (besieged , Minecraft space engineers hoi 4) .Forgot to mention that tb3 would be nice and I'm from germany

[genexis_x]

You can consider workstation laptops like Thinkpad P52, Precision 7530 and Zbook 15 G5

[StormCloaker]

4 minutes ago, ZM Fong said:

You can consider workstation laptops like Thinkpad P52, Precision 7530 and Zbook 15 G5

What about an xps 15 9570 or a blade ?

[genexis_x]

40 minutes ago, StormCloaker said:

What about an xps 15 9570 or a blade ?

XPS 15 has issues. Razer Blade is trash

[Thunder_Ruler0]

On 7/3/2018 at 2:38 PM, ZM Fong said:

XPS 15 has issues. Razer Blade is trash

what issues?

[genexis_x]

1 hour ago, Thunder_Ruler0 said:

what issues?

https://www.ultrabookreview.com/19675-im-not-buying-new-xps-15-9570/

[Thunder_Ruler0]

On 7/19/2018 at 10:55 PM, ZM Fong said:

https://www.ultrabookreview.com/19675-im-not-buying-new-xps-15-9570/

soooo basically regular manufacturing issues that almost all laptop models will have at some point in their life that slowly get fixed? If you're concerned about the overheating, unless you peg CPU and GPU at 100% simultaneously, it isn't much of an issues, but if you think that the issue still lingers, install better thermal compound.

Dont think it should be the users job to replace the thermal compounds? Should get a macbook. Dont want to limitations and have customization that comes with a PC? the cycle goes.

 

Anyways aside from that 'rant', im actually waiting for my XPS 15 to come in the mail sometime in the next 2 weeks, if you wait i'll tell you first hand.

[genexis_x]

20 minutes ago, Thunder_Ruler0 said:

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Those issues shouldn't happen in such expensive laptop. Thermal issue in XPS 15 is a fact, and yet it hasn't been fixed for years. I'm not 'ranting', just telling the truth. It's still a nice laptop apart from these issues.

[Thunder_Ruler0]

1 hour ago, ZM Fong said:

Those issues shouldn't happen in such expensive laptop.

*cough* apple *couch* and well I was talking about my 'rant'. You're not wrong though, but it is what it is.

[Thunder_Ruler0]

On 7/20/2018 at 11:57 PM, ZM Fong said:

Those issues shouldn't happen in such expensive laptop. Thermal issue in XPS 15 is a fact, and yet it hasn't been fixed for years. I'm not 'ranting', just telling the truth. It's still a nice laptop apart from these issues.

Well, I've had the laptop now for 5 days and have been using it as my only computer so far. I got AIDA 64 running on it too and I've been monitoring the temperatures whenever I play any game, such as CSGO, Metro 2033, Fallout NV, and Garry's Mod. It does get hot, high 80's and especially the CPU in this case. But the most thermal throttling i've got on a gaming workload (metro 2033) was 4% throttling at max in very intensive parts of the game, in other parts it ran just fine.