artemisDove

So after giving it more thought, I decided to start looking into the "gaming" pc stuff. If professional workstations seem to perform this poorly, perhaps just going the "gamer" route is justified. And then that took me down the Linux-focused brands route. Tuxedo stood out to me, and the Stellaris 16 seems like a decent alternative to all this workstation mess. I saw that you reviewed the Eluktronics MECH-17, and the Tuxedo seems to be a rebrand of the MECH-16... https://www.eluktronics.com/MECH-16-GP https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-Stellaris-16-Gen5.tuxedo If you happen to know about these machines, I would love to hear your opinion on them!

Thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately a gaming laptop is not really an option for my use case. Part of the reason why I buy "professional" laptops is their long life. My good ol' latitude is 10 years old, has not battery and looks dingy, but it's still around. Meanwhile some people I know have gone through 3 consumer grade laptops that start falling apart at the second year. Plus, gaming laptops sound like airplane turbines, and I do not want my colleague's to kill me. Sadly the 12, 13 and now the 14 generation of Intels seem to be... disappointing a lot of people to say the least. Meaning the laptops also doing the same. I want to have the best possible thing even if these generations are sort of bad. I still need to get my work done. Basically, it all comes down to finding the least "bad" of the Zbooks, Precisions and P1X's... and getting lucky to find a decent refurb that I can pay with academic money. Or... just going for the HP, even if it's not a miracle machine.

Hello everyone, first time poster here! After using my beloved Latitude e6540 for almost a decade now, it is time to retire it. It is basically falling apart after so many years. My current research involves VERY heavy optimisation modelling. My models do not really care about the GPU. It's all about the CPU speed, having as much RAM as possible, and stable (enough) performance under long workloads. Good cooling is important, a vapour chamber and good thermals are preferred. I have two candidates, and would like to hear your opinion before I choose one, if that is OK. The first is the Precision 7680: i7-13850HX, RTX 3500 ADA, 64 GB. I managed to find a supplier who is selling it refurbished at a very low price (with good warranty), so it seems like a good system to do my preliminary model runs before sending them to our cluster, or as a backup plan if the job queue is too long. It also has the vapour chamber (I think?), which is a nice extra. The second is a new HP ZBook Power G10: i7-13700H, RTX 3000, 64 GB. This one is new, and is offered by my institution. After upgrading the RAM to 64GB, the price is slightly less than the refurb. Most reviews seem quite happy with it, but it's not a top of the line workstation. I've read everything I could find on both models, and I am a bit worried about all the issues mentioned in this thread. For what I've gathered, other "top" workstations (ZBook Fury, P16) also have thermal problems in this generation. Some people in this thread have said that the 7780 is the better of the two Dells when it comes to thermals, but I cannot afford a new one. The choice is mostly either sacrificing portability or power, but I am wondering if I will get disappointing results or lots of other issues with the 7680. I should also mention that I plan on running Linux on the system I get (mostly due to personal preferences). I do not know how that factors in when configuring the power profile of the Dell... Basically: - Should I go for the Dell if the cost is only slightly more (~400€) over the HP? - Would I run into trouble if I try to get the most out of the system when not using Windows? I welcome any other suggestions. Thank you for your time!