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Originally posted by woohoo View PostI looked at the spec and looks like an average processor/cores, ok mobile graphics card. Not sure about the ssd cant remember. Is it also limited to 16gb?
I remember building PC's on the 2000's bought two Pentium three Mitsubishi Apricots, although lower spec in every way, they out-performed the homebuilds no problem. I put that down to time spent by Mitsubishi tuning parts - maybe I was wrong...
Miss them - gave them away....
I think that's what Apple do - not State of the Art, but tuned....
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Originally posted by administrator View PostHate to say it but Unix is right. It's what I am considering next time I need to get a new machine. Whole dev environment that you can pick up and take with you. I have my sites in git and work locally via a local linux box, going mac would let me have the whole lot in one bundle. Seriously tempted. The only thing holding me back is only upgraded to this machine a year or two ago and it is more than fast enough and just can't justify £2K solely on making me portable, especially as I only work from two locations as it is.
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Hate to say it but Unix is right. It's what I am considering next time I need to get a new machine. Whole dev environment that you can pick up and take with you. I have my sites in git and work locally via a local linux box, going mac would let me have the whole lot in one bundle. Seriously tempted. The only thing holding me back is only upgraded to this machine a year or two ago and it is more than fast enough and just can't justify £2K solely on making me portable, especially as I only work from two locations as it is.
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Originally posted by Unix View PostGet a MacBook Pro top spec 15 ince, it's as powerful as any PC you can build, retina display and you can run Windows using Parallels or Bootcamp. You can also hook up displays.
It's the best computing device ever, anyone that disagrees with that is clueless.
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Get a MacBook Pro top spec 15 ince, it's as powerful as any PC you can build, retina display and you can run Windows using Parallels or Bootcamp. You can also hook up displays.
It's the best computing device ever, anyone that disagrees with that is clueless.
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Originally posted by woohoo View PostGoing out on a limb thinking that I'm not unusual in studying or working in the evening. I quite like the Surface wish I bought it rather than the Lenovo Helix, it struggles to power 3 monitors, can do it but if you watch netflix brings the system to a halt.
As much as I love my Samsung new series 9 which is a great laptop with a boot up of 5 seconds, I want a surface 3.
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Not your requirement but a year ago I researched and bought a fairly high end laptop. I found that for all the bells and whistles, together with the oomph, you have to lean towards "gaming" hardware, as platypus mentioned. Even though I don't play games.
The laptop has 1920x1080 panel and I use it with 2 external monitors at similar resolution. 16 Gb RAM/1 TB disk, quad core i7 Haswell. About £730 at saveonlaptops.
9S7-16GD11-1408, MSI CX61 2PF-1408UK, 3203713416 - Save on Laptops
One thing I regret is not getting an SSD, but on the upside the disk is 7.2K, rather than the 5.5K usually found in domestic kit. Also I would have liked displayport for running more external monitors.
Runs Linux Mint 17 like a boss.
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostMost contractors here work on site...
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostUnless you're doing something fairly unusual, you don't need a high-end PC, especially if a PC that pre-dates USB2 has been good enough (I doubt this, are you sure?) Even cheap PCs are very powerful indeed now and I'd be focusing on SSD and a nice chunk of RAM, not that RAM is pricey either.
I guess if you want to run the odd game on it also helps if it's a decent spec
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Originally posted by Platypus View PostDidn't you see the "high end" requirement?
Originally posted by Platypus View PostI'm not sure I fully agree. I now run 3 monitors driven from a pair of high(ish) end Nvidea cards. The cards are large and need a case large enough to accommodate them and a PSU with enough umph to drive them, so the gaming case I have allows for that. So in retrospect, I'm glad that I went for an "over the top" spec as it's allowed me to grow the system through the additional of 3 additional HDDs and the additional video card since purchase.
I'm no expert, just speaking from experience.
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostA high-end PC would normally include a fancy graphics card and unless you're a gamer or into GPGPU/CUDA/etc you won't need that. A bog-standard i7 with a big SSD and 16-32Gb RAM would be night and day to any pre-SSD PC.
Nice dual monitors are awesome but they are separate to the PC in my book, i.e. you refresh your PC and monitors in different cycles.
I'm no expert, just speaking from experience.
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Unless you're doing something fairly unusual, you don't need a high-end PC, especially if a PC that pre-dates USB2 has been good enough (I doubt this, are you sure?) Even cheap PCs are very powerful indeed now and I'd be focusing on SSD and a nice chunk of RAM, not that RAM is pricey either.
A high-end PC would normally include a fancy graphics card and unless you're a gamer or into GPGPU/CUDA/etc you won't need that. A bog-standard i7 with a big SSD and 16-32Gb RAM would be night and day to any pre-SSD PC.
Nice dual monitors are awesome but they are separate to the PC in my book, i.e. you refresh your PC and monitors in different cycles.
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