The links will be to the store page as that's most useful.
P150SM
Key features:
- 8 Cell battery
- Full size keyboard (includes numpad)
- Good screen resolution (1920x1080). 95% colour gamut option
- Fast enough i7 mobile cpu with 4 cores/8 threads
- Nvidia quadro K1000m or K3000m graphics
- 4 Ram DIMM slots.
P157SM
Differences between P150SM:
- More hard drive upgrade options (not many though)
- Different chassis visual style.
- Comes standard with 95% colour gamut screen.
- Memory sticks are all 8GB making future upgrades easy: The W530 uses 4GB sticks, making future upgrades requiring you to repurchase sticks and throwing out the old if you want to get to 32GB.
- Keyboard is full, those numpads are useful.
- K3000M option available which is roughly 40% faster than a K2000M available in the lenovo option.
- Standard HDD capacity starts at 1TB. Lenovo starts at 500GB.
- Standard battery is 8 cell. Lenovo has 6 cell (upgradable to 9 cell for +$55)
- Lenovo with stock configuration and k2000m is $2,349.00. The P150SM is cheaper considering it's advantages(more ram, more hdd, more battery etc by default). Lenovo configured to be almost similar (still no graphics upgrade and using 4 4GB sticks): $2,611.62 // although it still lacks a full keyboard on top of that.
There are also 17" versions of those two laptops, the P170SM and P177SM respectively. I am considering portability considerations in my recommendation though.
My recommendation
The P150SM as it has a more work focused aesthetic over the P157SM while only costing around $10 more (with the same technical specifications). Yeah, I think it looks better.
For people interested in ridiculous expense for ridiculous performance
There's the Metabox P570WM with K5000m workstation graphics and i7 3930K.
This monster comes equipped with the best nvidia mobile workstation graphics and a ridiculously powerful desktop processor. It's very heavy and the price without OS is: $5,488.00
It also has the capacity for dual graphics(although only ships with one), 3 hard drives and destruction of the earth.
Hope that's helpful :)
Nice work Rob, I will look into these options. I was also looking at the following Dell, but I think the Clevo will be the better option..
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dell.com/au/business/p/precision-m4800-workstation/pd
May the force be with you,
Richie