Looking for a laptop! Need help!

[yamahahornist]

So I am taking over the IT department at my local church and I am looking for a laptop to do with it. Price wise probably around 1,000-2,500. I want an i7 and good battery life. A dedicated gpu would be nice; but I probably would never game on it. Main use would be for monitoring and maintaining our computer systems and server. I would also probably be doing a lot of video rendering on it. I know there are some great gaming laptops in that area but there so big and clunky and have horrible battery life. I want something that looks great (thinner is better); has the power of an amazing i7 and decent battery life.

Thanks in advance for helping me out!

 

[Herc08]

Well most of the churches I've been in uses Macbooks. I'm sure you know about those. I hear the HP Specture is nice. Also the Dell XPS 13 and 15 look good too There is no dedicated GPU, but it will get the job done.

 

[TMTOWTSAC]

Found this:

http/www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/inspiron-15-7559-laptop/fndcpw5716h?dgc=BA&cid=306033&lid=5794655&acd=12309227620360122c101156640&ven3=272403642826563719

Only 8mb of RAM which isn't ideal for video editing. But it does have a HQ i7 and nvidia 960m. Code "50off699" at checkout brings the price to $799.99 USD.

 

[yamahahornist]

Well most of the churches I've been in uses Macbooks. I'm sure you know about those. I hear the HP Specture is nice. Also the Dell XPS 13 and 15 look good too There is no dedicated GPU, but it will get the job done.

Yeah we have a ton of macs haha; but being a builder of computers and understanding the hardware. I cant justify paying $3000 for a dual core i5 in a mac... when I can spend $1500 for a i7 on a PC haha But yeah.. lots of macs

 

[GreyCatz]

That is quite some budgetary leeway you've got there. Going by your details, can I interest you in a powerful workstation?

Dell Precision
http/configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=xctomp751015us&model_id=precision-m7510-workstation&c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04
Starting at $1,049, you can customize your way into a Xeon E3 1535M, Win10, a 4GB Nvidia Quadro M2000M (GDDR5) GPU, a 15.6" 2K UltraSharp IPS display, 16BGs of RAM, a 512GB M.2 SSD + a 1TB HDD @7200rpm for a total of $2,316.

OR:

Lenovo ThinkPad P50
http/shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/p-series/p50/
Starting at $1,000, you can add a Xeon E3 1505M, Win10, a 15.6" 4K IPS display, 32GBs of RAM, a 4GB Nvidia Quadro M2000M GPU, 1TB PCIe NVMe SSD + 500GB HDD for a total of $2,197.

Both manufacturers offer heavy discounts and online savings ($1,000+).

Cheers,
GreyCatz.