Do I need a mobile workstation?

[Snomstor]

Hello everyone!

Last year I bought myself rather powerful laptop (HP Pavilion Power 15-cb011ur: core i7-7700HQ, GTX 1050 4Gb, SSD - 128 Gb, HDD - 1 Tb, Windows 10). I had choosen this model because of low price and because of what I need in PC. Unfortunately, there are some annoying problems with stability work of this HP (not just in my case, other people have similar problems too). I had gave this laptop to service center twice, but it didn't lead to success. So I want to change this PC.

I have a deal with some engineering / scientific programs, calculations, coding and modeling. Sometimes I game in computer games that not very demanding for GPU (Skyrim is a maximum) - it's not priority for me. I need high performance CPU, entry level GPU (such as GTX 1050, 1050ti, Quadro P1000, P2000) because i don't have a deal with complex 3D-modeling (but simple cases can occur). Ofcourse, I need a good cooling system and stability of working! Good battery and solid case are need too. Yes, I need exactly laptop. Lenovo ThinkPad P-series (now it's P52) and Dell Precision 75xx-series (now it's 7530) were always interesting for me, but have rather high price. Intel Core i7-8750H and NVIDIA Quadro P1000 are good for me, I think.

So the question is does a workstations (such as ThinkPad P52 or Precision 7530) provide more stability and reliability of working compared to usual consumers laptops?

[Jurrunio]

not really. a laptop with good reviews is more important than whether it's a workstation

[Radium_Angel]

27 minutes ago, Snomstor said:

Hello everyone!

Last year I bought myself rather powerful laptop (HP Pavilion Power 15-cb011ur: core i7-7700HQ, GTX 1050 4Gb, SSD - 128 Gb, HDD - 1 Tb, Windows 10). I had choosen this model because of low price and because of what I need in PC. Unfortunately, there are some annoying problems with stability work of this HP (not just in my case, other people have similar problems too). I had gave this laptop to service center twice, but it didn't lead to success. So I want to change this PC.

I have a deal with some engineering / scientific programs, calculations, coding and modeling. Sometimes I game in computer games that not very demanding for GPU (Skyrim is a maximum) - it's not priority for me. I need high performance CPU, entry level GPU (such as GTX 1050, 1050ti, Quadro P1000, P2000) because i don't have a deal with complex 3D-modeling (but simple cases can occur). Ofcourse, I need a good cooling system and stability of working! Good battery and solid case are need too. Yes, I need exactly laptop. Lenovo ThinkPad P-series (now it's P52) and Dell Precision 75xx-series (now it's 7530) were always interesting for me, but have rather high price. Intel Core i7-8750H and NVIDIA Quadro P1000 are good for me, I think.

So the question is does a workstations (such as ThinkPad P52 or Precision 7530) provide more stability and reliability of working compared to usual consumers laptops?

What you need, my red friend, is a lunchbox pc...

http://www.bsicomputer.com/products/portable-lunchbox-computer-1430

 

[Snomstor]

29 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

What you need, my red friend, is a lunchbox pc...

http://www.bsicomputer.com/products/portable-lunchbox-computer-1430

 

No, thanks, kind man)

[Plumpo]

I have had pretty good luck with the MSI Stealth line at work. We have about 15-20 of them in circulation. Sadly the newer models with the 8 series chips are a lot more expensive than the 7 series ones were. But the 7700HQ's with a 256gb M.2 and a 1060 were often around $1500 USD. https://www.amazon.com/GS63VR-Stealth-Notebook-i7-7700HQ-NVIDIA/dp/B079SCFYPF

[Snomstor]

1 hour ago, Jurrunio said:

not really. a laptop with good reviews is more important than whether it's a workstation

Yes, it's true, but in most cases ones doesn't talk about stability and reliability of working in a review. Experience of using is need for this. I know that Apple MacBooks works good for simple tasks, but they has not very high performance or not enough effective cooling system, high cost and Mac OS (that doesn't fit my goals).

[genexis_x]

11 hours ago, Snomstor said:

So the question is does a workstations (such as ThinkPad P52 or Precision 7530) provide more stability and reliability of working compared to usual consumers laptops?

Yes. However, do you really need Quadro GPU, best QA+QC etc? Because you'll be paying a huge amount of money

[Snomstor]

10 hours ago, GeneXiS_X said:

Yes. However, do you really need Quadro GPU, best QA+QC etc? Because you'll be paying a huge amount of money

No, I don't need exactly Quadro GPU, but I need some entry level discrete GPU. It's not so expensive. I'm just tired of different bugs...