I'm looking for a new developer/basic gaming laptop to replace my current laptop. I bought a thinkpad i7 laptop in 2013 that I was pretty happy with. I bought an i5 thinkpad flex in 2015 for something I could use as a tablet alternate while still having a development. I thought a newer i5 would be at least as good as a 2 year older i7, but the thinkpad flex was noticeably slower. Unfortunately the i7 machine broke down and I've been left with the flex for a while, now have money to look at an upgrade.
I'm looking for a developer laptop primarily and gamer laptop secondary. I tend to develop a lot for data crunching research or developing games. So I want a fair bit of processing capability, I assume i7 is pretty much minimum. I do want to balance this against cost, I'm willing to spend money on a good laptop, but not twice as much for a 10% faster machine. Like the Lenovo laptop with Xeon would be freaken cool, but probably not worth it when I could dump the job off to a desktop with a real processor.
Graphics wise, I'm not looking for ability to play a game with maxed out graphics, just something able to run lowish graphics smoothly. Could do embedded graphics but I think a fair stand alone card would be preferable. I do like high resolution though, not needed but better than 1080p would be nice. Somewhat(?) related, I do like my numberpad so I think a 15" is minimum but I had a 17" before, kick ass machine but the size gets annoying after a while.
I don't need much storage, I've got 256Gb SSD on my current machine and am only using about half of it. I do a lot of data processing, but don't store a lot of data. 16Gb minimum on the memory though
One nitpick is I would prefer a laptop that I can change the memory or drives when needed.
I'm thinking something like a Lenovo ThinkPad T series laptop but wondering what the best options might be these days.
Thanks!
I'm looking for a developer laptop primarily and gamer laptop secondary. I tend to develop a lot for data crunching research or developing games. So I want a fair bit of processing capability, I assume i7 is pretty much minimum. I do want to balance this against cost, I'm willing to spend money on a good laptop, but not twice as much for a 10% faster machine. Like the Lenovo laptop with Xeon would be freaken cool, but probably not worth it when I could dump the job off to a desktop with a real processor.
Graphics wise, I'm not looking for ability to play a game with maxed out graphics, just something able to run lowish graphics smoothly. Could do embedded graphics but I think a fair stand alone card would be preferable. I do like high resolution though, not needed but better than 1080p would be nice. Somewhat(?) related, I do like my numberpad so I think a 15" is minimum but I had a 17" before, kick ass machine but the size gets annoying after a while.
I don't need much storage, I've got 256Gb SSD on my current machine and am only using about half of it. I do a lot of data processing, but don't store a lot of data. 16Gb minimum on the memory though
One nitpick is I would prefer a laptop that I can change the memory or drives when needed.
I'm thinking something like a Lenovo ThinkPad T series laptop but wondering what the best options might be these days.
Thanks!