Laptop for my LTD

[Scrag Meister]

I am waiting for skylakes next month and I will order a maxed out dell with a hefty warranty and insurance package.

I am hoping they do an XPS 13 refresh but all I am seeing in the news so far is a new XPS 15 wanky hybrid 2 in 1. Tablets are tulip and they only exist because of the ipad hype and I don't want some flimsy piece of crap.

I have an XPS 15 and to be honest, it is a great bit of kit, but I think something smaller would be better.

Depending on your needs a mate has a Surface Pro 3 and that seems to be a very nice piece of kit.

I used to have an XPS M1330 but it was so good the burglars took it.

[kevpuk]

MyCo insisted on a Gigabyte P35K, as ability to play games was deemed a therapeutic use of downtime and facilitated a considerably better work ethic, from being recharged and relaxed......



But then, ClientCo required me to stop using own hardware, after 18 months, as there VM vendor went under and all were migrated back on to......Dell Latitude E6220 ......however, MyCo - being prudent - foresaw this woe and insisted on an i7 Surface Pro 3 to be used for note taking in meetings etc.



TL;DR = I have 2 lovely machines

[SueEllen]

MyCo insisted on a Gigabyte P35K, as ability to play games was deemed a therapeutic use of downtime and facilitated a considerably better work ethic, from being recharged and relaxed......



But then, ClientCo required me to stop using own hardware, after 18 months, as there VM vendor went under and all were migrated back on to......Dell Latitude E6220 ......however, MyCo - being prudent - foresaw this woe and insisted on an i7 Surface Pro 3 to be used for note taking in meetings etc.



TL;DR = I have 2 lovely machines

What does your company's personnel do their training, correspondence and accounts on?

Surely for keeping your skill set up to date you need a decent laptop?

[sociopath]

MyCo insisted on a Gigabyte P35K, as ability to play games was deemed a therapeutic use of downtime and facilitated a considerably better work ethic, from being recharged and relaxed......



But then, ClientCo required me to stop using own hardware, after 18 months, as there VM vendor went under and all were migrated back on to......Dell Latitude E6220 ......however, MyCo - being prudent - foresaw this woe and insisted on an i7 Surface Pro 3 to be used for note taking in meetings etc.



TL;DR = I have 2 lovely machines

Are surface pro's any good?

[SlipTheJab]

But only if you require an expensive laptop "package" which must all come from the same VAT registered retailer and be on one invoice. So don't use Amazon marketplace.

Apple...

[SueEllen]

Apple...

Some people prefer thinkpads or high spec machines that could be used for gaming...

[NickNick]

But only if you require an expensive laptop "package" which must all come from the same VAT registered retailer and be on one invoice. So don't use Amazon marketplace.

So a base model Apple then? :O)

[sociopath]

Surface Pro 4 or Surface Book for business or both with one for light work commuting to client office and other for heavy work at own office? Thought I'd ask for your thoughts since you are all IT gurus and I'm a humble engineer.

[kevpuk]

Are surface pro's any good?

For me, the SP3 is a very decent device. Not cheap, but decently powerful (depending on which variant, I suppose) and more than capable of being my everyday machine.
Now ClientCo have landed one of their laptops on me for daily work, the SP3 is far preferable as a device to do the rest of my stuff on, whilst away from home.

[NibblyPig]

Surface Book for me too now! Screw the XPS 13!

Well, probably.

It depends on what the GPU will be. They've made it very mysterious. If it's tulipe then I might not bother and XPS 13 will be back on the tables, cos it doesn't weigh as much. The Skylake GPU isn't really all that bad. Not planning on gaming anyway.

No release date in the UK though either. 26th October for the US, 14th November for Australia (apparently). UK? No idea.