Thanks to everyone, many good feedback so far. I had Dell, HP and Lenovo’s thinkpads and all of them where pretty good quality wise. I always had a workstation/Quadro card, as mentioned maybe a waste of money for Rhino use??
In another forum here aronfini mentioned his Dell XPS15 9560, got 27000 in the holomark 2 benchmark, which is pretty good for a laptop in this priceclass. My current machine (Zbook G3, M2000 Quadro) only got abt. 24000 in this benchmark- and i can do even quite fast render (only Flamingo, maybe replaced by Octane soon).
I looked in the Aero 15x as per Toshiaki_Takano tip, it’s a real monster machine spec wise (GTX1070 8GB GPU…) and cool design- the only shame it’s not available with Touchscreen. If someone doesn’t need this feature for sketching/ design, its top of the list.
Anorther interesting machine was the Razer Blade Gaming Laptop which also got good specs, incl. touchscreen and acceptable design, but the quality/ service seams an issue as per customer reviews.
For the XPS 15, the touchscreen is only available with the 4K screen. Otherwise I would also prefer the standard 1080p version, for battery life etc.
In the moment I consider:
- Dell XPS 15 9560 45W HQ type precessors, GTX1050, 4GB), abt. 2000€
- new Dell XPS 15 9575 2-in-1 (65 W!! Quad-Core CPU G-type, integrated AMD Radeon RX Vega, 4GB, but available from Q1/ 2018)- similar to GTX 1060! GPU as per hitenter comment
- new Microsoft Surface book 2 15 inch, real 2-in-1 case design (GTX 1060 with 6GB, but 8th generation 15W quad core processor U-type ) USA 2900$ and available from today in most of europe, but for whopping abt. 3300€ -> https://www.cnet.com/products/microsoft-surface-book-2/review/
,and professional workstations with Quadro M1200 graphic card (roughly equal M2000M)
- Dell Precision 5520 (workstation version of XPS 15)
- HP ZBook 15 Studio G4
or with Quadro M2200
- Dell Precision 7520
- HP ZBook 15 G4
But this above workstations costs min. 600-800€ more (incl. touchscreen), compared to a highest spec laptop like XPS15 9560!
Is still go upto 2months to select a machine. Maybe others got more time.
Does someone use the dell precision machines mentioned above?
Do you really see an advantage in the Quadro- GPU based workstations, for Rhino?