Monstrous Laptops

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I started this thread last week but for some reason it posted as a Wiki

Whilst speccing up a new X1 Carbon for myself recently, I was having a play with the Lenovo configurator and managed to build a Thinkpad P70 to a cost of £6000!

Intel Xeon E3-1575M v5 MB
Windows 10 Pro 64
17.3 4K(3840x2160) IPS Non-Touch
64GB(16x4) DDR4 2133MHz ECC SoDIMM
NVIDIA Quadro M5000M 8GB
720p HD Camera with Microphone
Backlit Keyboard with Number Pad - English UK
Integrated Fingerprint Reader
1TB SSD PCIe-NVMe
500GB HD 7200RPM
9.5mm Fixed DVD Recordable
Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC(2x2) 8260, Bluetooth Version 4.1 vPro
Qualcomm Snapdragon X7 LTE-A (Sierra Wireless EM7455)

£6060.79

A beast of a machine and surely a delight to work on.



Do any PH'ers run anything similar? If so, what do you use it for?

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Insanity Magnet said:

Dell Precision M6800. Can't remember how much exactly but was somewhere IRO £2.5k. Now stuffed full of memory and SSDs, added later to prevent a fleecing by Dell.

I use it for SolidWorks, Rhino, modo and whatever Adobe package a job requires... Needed a portable rather than a desktop monster and I thought this gave the best bang for the buck (OK £) at the time.

I've always upgraded my Precisions roughly every 3 years. The M6800 is 2.5 years old and powerful enough for me not to need to change for a few years more.

Nice.

I've got an old Thinkpad X230 that I don't really want to get rid of as it served me so well. i7, 16GB RAM, 256SSD + 2TB Hard disk, IPS screen etc. Lovely little thing. The only thing that lets it down for me is the 1366x768 screen.

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Jimmy Recard said:

ArsE92 said:

Nice.

I've got an old Thinkpad X230 that I don't really want to get rid of as it served me so well. i7, 16GB RAM, 256SSD + 2TB Hard disk, IPS screen etc. Lovely little thing. The only thing that lets it down for me is the 1366x768 screen.

If you do think of selling it, would you let me know?

Sounds an ideal spec for me and mine probably doesn't have very long to go. I'm not a power user now, but Thinkpads are just so nice to use.

I will definitely be selling it. You can have the Ultradock too. In fact, you can have two Ultradocks!

If you're interested then drop me a PM. I'd happily let it go for Ebay price - 10-15% or something to a PHer.

Zod said:

'd never buy such a thing. I'd buy a desktop instead. It's not portable in any real sense.

I'd say with a decent bag it wouldn't be too difficult to lug around. I already carry an X1 Carbon, external Asus 14" USB screen, power packs etc.

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The Beaver King said:

We put in a request at work for a laptop capable of running an Oculus Rift and high end 3D modelling; we're in construction but we do a lot of rendering etc.

We ended up with this:

– Dell Alienware 17 laptop, running Windows 7 Pro (64 bit) English
– Processor - Intel® Core™ i7-4980HQ Processor (Quad-Core, 6MB Cache, up to 4.0GHz w/ Intel® Turbo Boost)
– Memory - 16Gb Dual Channel DDR3L 1600MHz
– Video - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M with 4Gb GDDR5
– Display - 17.3 inch Full HD (1920 x 1080) IPS-Panel Anti-Glare 300-nits Display (Standard)
– HDD - 512GB m.2 SSD + 1Tb 7.2k
– Dell Alienware Graphic Amplifier, with NVIDIA GeForce GTX980 4GB GDDR5


The GPU Amplifier is an absolute beast; I believe the whole lot was nearly £4k.

1080p - how quaint.