Tech Guru help ...new laptop....

[Stu160]

Assume the reason for a Laptop is for machines that aren't networked?

No, i tke the laptop home to do drawings, programs etc, so its better to just have one pc to do it all, machines are all now flash drives for file transfer.

Stu

[Stu160]

Assume the reason for a Laptop is for machines that aren't networked?

No, i take the laptop home to do drawings, programs etc, so its better to just have one pc to do it all, machines are all now flash drives for file transfer.

Stu

[robin]

Keeping in mind that an e300 has been OK, I am not convinced Stu needs to leap quite so far forward in terms of system performance. An e300 has 20% the CPU grunt of this beast:

http://mcscom.co.uk/product/precision-m ... ty-prc152/

Half the money; spend 100 or so on a SSD and transfer Windows license from existing laptop

Cheers,
Robin

P.S. We've bought quite a lot of kit from MCS and they're good to deal with, trustworthy (unlike eBay vendors, often).

[Ferg]

Slightly simplistic approach but as your looking for maths compute for your graphics, get the laptop with the biggest dedicated graphics processor that fits your budget. I have found performance much improved for graphics intensive applications when the graphics chip is a dedicated separate unit.