I7-7600u Gaming
Margaret Sieverding
nope, nope, needs more RAM, needs more RAM and storage, needs more RAM, kinda slow, nope, slowest of the bunch, slow and needs RAM, good enough, needs more RAM though, mid-tier even in this list and no dedicated GPU...
MSI gf63 is the clear winner by over 20% if you upgrade the RAM, but it's still 40% the speed of a laptop I've been using for a year. the MSI gf63 is good- held up well enough but isn't future-proofed in the least, and despite the wonderful value as a low-tier gaming rig, is very weak overall as a workstation.
and the 32gig ram ones will get you about 10 seconds of 4k playback for a single clip in a composition, and the disk will store maybe 20-200 minutes of 4k raw footage, depending on format.
GPU doesn't matter all that much. if this was before 2015 you'd get a large benefit from more cores but adobe fixed that and it's only moderate uplifts now.
-editing-workstations/adobe-after-effects/hardware-recom...
this site is pretty good at being realistic about what you'll get for how much you spend, even down to "you'll see more use and value from a mid-tier gaming gpu than a professional one, and stay away from multi-cpu systems"
I see some $500 ones and some $1000 ones. most are $500 so I'll tell you: generally, laptops waste a lot of their performance capability by underpowering parts to be quiet and use less power- performance losses to the tune of 40-60% slower for the same price. That's why so many people throw ten times as much into a workstation. sure, adobe products don't scale well with better hardware... but they do scale some.
TL;DR,
just pick whatever has the best performance, SSD/'m.2 NVME storage, and replaceable RAM. you'll want at least 64gb for 4k.
If you're crafty, build a PC in a briefcase- you'll get better performance than these, by far, at the same prices.
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it's less than several on the list, but compared to the next best:
there's also probably some refurbished dell g15 5515's kicking around. That's what I use when I'm on the run and it's deceptively cool once you figure out it'll overheat because the computer's profile itself is a game preset that's off by default. it's about 10% weaker than this briefcase build, and you'll need to upgrade RAM and storage, but it's a little trooper.
if you're willing to just plug it in and have a small desktop I can probably get a better price to performance ratio, and if you're doing any amount of raytracing, an rtx card (or arc gpu! wow, rare pick!) is to die for.
also hi if you're the francesco I know that also does 4k, 3D, and may be in the market for a new computer after a 2013 macbook and a very long, spacey VFX job.
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Although we wish the screen were more colorful, companies looking for a portable and potent laptop for their employees will be pleased with the Latitude 7280. It's one of the best laptops and best business laptops around.
The Latitude 7280's black magnesium-alloy chassis is thin and nondescript, with a glowing-white power-indicator light on the front edge. The soft-touch paint used on the lid and deck gives the chassis a good feel and makes it easy to grip.
Dell placed the Latitude's HDMI port, a USB 3.0 port, an optional smart-card reader and an optional Thunderbolt 3 USB Type-C port on the left side of the notebook. The laptop's headphone jack, SD memory reader, headphone jack and Ethernet port are on its right side.
Our test unit included a manufacturing problem we've seen before in other laptops: Its underside was unbalanced, with the bottom-right corner not lying flush when on a table. When placing my wrists on the deck to type, I noticed the right corner moved down and touched the table underneath, repositioning the far-left corner in the air. When Dell shipped us a replacement unit, we noticed the same issue, but to a lesser degree that we may not have noticed had it not been for the first unit.
The Dell Latitude 7280 is built for the long haul. The notebook passed 15 MIL-SPEC-810G tests. This means it can survive drops from 30 inches (onto plywood) and heavy blasts of dust, and the system can be operated in extremely high and low temperatures (from minus 20.2 to 140 degrees Fahrenheit).
For $35, you can add a trio of security readers (smart card, contactless smart card, fingerprint sensor), to give the notebook a variety of verification methods. The fingerprint sensor isn't exactly easy to use, though, as it's recessed into the deck, making it hard to activate for Windows Hello login. In fact, the system kept telling me the sensor needed to be cleaned, even though my hands were not dirty.
Our model features an integrated infrared webcam (an optional $21 upgrade available in the Core i5-7300U and Core i7 units that Dell marks as configurable) that allows for Windows Hello facial recognition. Once the system was set up, unlocking it was as easy as looking into the webcam.
While watching a trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 on the Latitude, I appreciated the panel's brightness and sharp image quality, but the colors were just blah. The system's well-illuminated 1080p display allowed me to easily see fine details such as Rocket's whiskers, Baby Groot's bark pattern and Drax's body markings. In terms of color, the screen didn't pop, leaving Gamora's typically vibrant-green skin dull.
Our colorimeter readings backed up my impressions, as the Latitude's screen produced 73 percent of the sRGB spectrum. That's below both the score from the EliteBook (116 percent) and the average for ultraportable notebooks (98 percent). The panel on the ThinkPad (67 percent) offered even fewer colors.
The Latitude emits up to 289 nits (a measure of brightness), which is higher than the 239-nit EliteBook and the 184-nit ThinkPad, but just below the 303-nit average for ultraportable notebooks. That's bright enough for 45-degree viewing angles to the left or right, where it darkens just slightly.
The Latitude 7280's backlit keyboard enables speedy typing. On the 10fastfingers.com typing test, I click-clacked my way to 77 words per minute, nearly reaching my 80-wpm average. The ease of typing offered by the laptop is owed, in part, to its keys' 1.7 millimeters of travel and 60 grams of required actuation force -- measurements that are well within our preferences (1.5 to 2.0 mm, 60 grams).
The Latitude's 3.8 x 2.0-inch touchpad is flanked by a pair of discrete left and right buttons that sit below it. The surface accurately tracked my input and smoothly responded to two-finger page scrolling and three-finger app-switching gestures. Its discrete buttons provided a solid feel to each click.
Streamers, beware: Though the Latitude 7280 blasts enough volume to fill a large conference room, it emits annoyingly scratchy audio. I heard varying degrees of distortion on everything from Vanessa Carlton's "A Thousand Miles" to Migos' "T-Shirt."
I opened the Waves MaxxAudio Pro sound-adjustment utility to try to fix the distortion, but I could erase it only by disabling the switch underneath the playback speaker icon in the app. Unfortunately, this also reduces the amount of volume the system produces, to where it barely filled a small conference room.
This configuration of the Latitude 7280 features a 7th-Gen Intel Core i7-7600U processor and 8GB of RAM, which enable speedy, productive multitasking. I saw no lag after splitting the screen between 12 Chrome tabs (including Slack, Gmail and TweetDeck) and a streaming 1080p YouTube video. Only after adding a round in Minecraft on top did I notice any stuttering on load times, though it was still usable.
When you're ready for a break from work, the Latitude 7280 can handle some modest gaming. The system ran Dirt 3 (set to 1920 x 1080 pixels and medium graphics) at 46 frames per second, surpassing our 30-fps playability threshold and the 35-fps ultraportable average.
The Latitude 7280 won't make your hands sweat, but it heats up a bit on the bottom. After we streamed 15 minutes of HD video on the notebook, our heat gun picked up cool temperatures on its touchpad (87 degrees Fahrenheit) and G and H keys (90.5 degrees), but not on its underside (97 degrees), which breached our 95-degree comfort threshold.
Dell gave the Latitude 7280 a fairly clean installation of Windows 10, only adding a handful of its own utilities. Command Update keeps the system up-to-date on software and drivers from Dell; Command Power Manager optimizes battery life, among other things; and SupportAssist organizes system info and support links.
The Dell Latitude 7280 packs speedy performance, a bright display and fantastic battery life into a thin, light design that's easy to carry. However, the screen isn't as colorful as we'd like, and the price can get pretty high, depending on which configuration you choose.
Among competing business notebooks, the HP EliteBook 1030 G1 offers great audio, but at the cost of performance and speed. For a faster hard drive, nearly 5 hours of extra battery life and a better price, consider the $1,160 configuration of the Lenovo ThinkPad X260, but keep in mind that it has a dimmer display.
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