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Getting towards new laptop time - which brand these days?
G'day
My current Toshiba laptop is now 4½ years old, and may be starting to show some signs of age - one of the USB ports is much slower than the other two for copying, and seems to have trouble accepting a USB-A sometimes. I guess that might be repairable. The speed of USB-C is also very appealing.
Anyhoo, I'm thinking it may be time to upgrade in the next 6 months, and given that Toshiba are out of the Laptop business now I'm wondering what the goss is? Changing laptops is usually very painful for me because of the high level of customisation I do - and then forget how to do it, particularly in Excel (currently Office 2016).
This is a pretty high spec unit (refer attachment for full spec), and the main parts are:
17" 4k screen, used in conjunction with a 28" 4k Monitor (4k is fabulous for sharpness)
16GB RAM
Intel i7-6500 2.50Ghz, quad core processor
512GB SSD
Windows 10 Home, 64bit
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Is there any advantage to Windows Pro? Or do the updates just come a bit earlier and users are the guinea pigs?
I do some pretty heavy processing quite regularly which is why I like an i7 quad core. I may be able to get by with 8GB RAM, but it's pretty cheap these days so I'd probably stay at 16GB.
I have heard that AMD processors are now superior to Intel - any thoughts on that?
Internal DAC - quality doesn't really matter too much because I put music out through a separate DAC/Amp (Schiit Jotunheim)
Note that I do ZERO gaming so a Graphics card only has to handle iView etc and some low level Photoshop work.
ALTERNATIVE THOUGHT BUBBLE:
I suppose I could have a Desktop built and keep this laptop for other things, given that there is nothing particular wrong with it apart from being a little long in the tooth. (I had my previous Dell laptop for 10 years trouble free). That would mean I'd have to put a UPS in place because we get a higher than usual amount of blackouts up here. That would make it much easier to take the laptop to the shed (bit of a hassle unplugging everything now).
A desktop could be fairly easily upgraded too......Hmmmm :think: