Hi guyz .
Happy owner of a dell xps 15 that is serving me wonderfully since the beginning and still holding his own in 2022 , this last weeks of official irrational "clown world"enterance make me feel that i might grab a laptop now better than later , we never know what gonna happen with China .
Do i need it now : nope at all
Pure precaution .... what's you're thougth on this (now or wait)
Now for the more geeky ones .... another aspect of my concern is the new intel 12 gen's , it's a superb cpu capable of surpassing anything around with 14 cores (some being beefy cores , some more power efficient) ... and the fact that it balance that makes me wonder :
1) Is windows gonna do it well
2) Are daws gonna handle those well
So my usual "prudence" told me , "zo skipp the better for the already good"
Now list narrow drastically and to my surprise a lot of AMD stuff in witch are good , but seems to get hotter than Intel (any feedback here on real users would be really appreciated my friends)
Another concern is the screen size and resolution hence the list , the problem being i wonder if the QHD + reso (in 16/9 or 16/10) isn't too much for a laptop , my dell is 3k and i'm since day one never using it , of course there's windows scalling but it doesn't works on plugins so no go until all plugins are resizable . My eyes aren't young anymore so any feedback on those QHD + reso would be appreciated (i have this resolution 1440p in 27 " witch is perfect )
Notice that the latptop gonna be used mainly when i go produce on the go (mostly far from humain) lol no heavy mixing , just post prod fast ruff mixing (like i do on my videos to print the artistic direction closer to the time of creation)
another concern is ports but my choices are at least prodividing 3 usb each time (the dell xps losing on usb c for power ...that sucks)
Price is a concern , i stopped buying 3 grands laptops since i change those more freq than desktop exeption done with the xps that is here since April 2014 and still gives me silent heavy processing power (8 sec at wprime on 8 cores witch is exellent today still)
Another concern is this Windows 11 witch i don't want , is it possible to roll back (from an installed windows 11 not an updated to 11 windows 10 )
The only one that has windows 10 pro is the Thinkbook 16 P witch is my actuall number 1 choice but that resolution is making me double think while it was on the spec i wanted ..
NOTICE : i have an additionall 250 Euros to add a second 2 TO ssd
AMD system don't have thunderbolt and are only PCIE 3 not 4
1) Lenovo Legion 5 Pro (AMD) (AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800H , 16.0" WQXGA (2560 x 1600) ,32 Go ,1 To SSD NVIDIA GeForce® RTX™ 3070 ) 1900 Euros with 3years on site waranty (instead of 2500)
https://www.lenovo.com/fr/fr/laptops/legion-laptops/legion-5-series/Legion-5-Pro-16ACH6H/p/WMD00000468
2) Dell XPS 17" (intel I7 11800H , RTX 3050 , 16 gb of ram , 512 ssd , FHD+ screen (1920x1200) 500 nits
https://www.dell.com/fr-fr/shop/ordinateurs-portables-dell/xps-17-9710/spd/xps-17-9710-laptop/cn97102sc11
3) Lenovo Legion 7 Slim (AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800H ,Windows 11 (damm !!),15.6" FHD (1920 x 1080) 300 nits , 16 gb of ram (8 soldered) ,512 go SSD , GeForce® RTX™ 3060 (71 Wh battery)
1499 Euros with 3 y on site waranty
https://www.lenovo.com/fr/fr/laptops/legion-laptops/legion-7-series/Legion-S7-15ACH6/p/88GMY701595
4) Lenovo Thinkbook 16 Pgen 2 (it's basically like the Legion slim with a 16 screen QHD+ and better heat management (wattage is less on gpu and power scheme more professionally tuned , not pushed crazy like the legion = less noise)
AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800H / (16") 2,5K (2 560 x 1 600) IPS, 400 nits , 16 go of ram , RTX 3060, 1TB SSD
1550 Euros with onsite 3 year warranty
https://www.lenovo.com/fr/fr/laptops/thinkbook/thinkbook-series/ThinkBook-16p-G2-ACH/p/XXTBXPEA600
5) HP Omen 16 : AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800H / SSD 1 TB , QHD (2560 x 1440) 300 nits , 16 Gb of ram , AMD Radeon™ RX 6600M
Price 1384 euros with regular 3 years waranty (, i missed a crazy deal to get a 120 euros back)
https://www.hp.com/fr-fr/shop/product.aspx?id=492Y8EA&opt=ABF&sel=NTB&p=c-offre-gaming
I count on you guyz for this ..... do i buy now or wait .... if i buy now , witch one and why
Game on !!
Ports : Legion 5 pro
Screen : XPS 17 (only people that never saw an xps screen can't understand lol)
Bang for the buck : HP and Legion slim / Thinkbook
Most overwall balanced spec : Thinkbook : power , price , design and specs (screen is 1600 p !!! ouch or not ouch)
HP build quality isn't on par with others imho , the best quality being xps , legion slim / thinkbook , legion pro / hp
Thinkboo has windows 10 pro