'Good evening,
I'm looking for a new notebook for gaming and development (Visual Studio), but it does not have the look of e.g. Alienware monsters have and are more suitable as a mobile workspace.
To make it short: I need that, for example. On the train to work or to gamble and I like a simple look.
A few points that are important to me:
Simple look - should be used for e.g. A meeting is good
min 15 inches, better 17 inches
Easy - does not have to be comparable to a tablet, but more than 3 to 4 kg are not that great either
As flat as possible - my current notebook is 2.4 cm thick
Strongest possible battery. While surfing and working he should keep a few hours
A lighted keyboard would be great
A possible "normal" keyboard layout
My hardware ideas:
Powerful CPU with 6 cores
Graphics card from 1070 upwards
NVMe SSD from 500GB or M.2 slot, for such SSD
16 GB of RAM, more I think currently meaningless
2.5 inch space or second M.2 slot for NVMe SSD
What is not important to me:
Display frequency - enough for me 60/70 Hz
Resolution - enough for me FullHD, 4K I think pointless
The illuminated keyboard is enough for me a color, I do not need RGB
I do not care about a CD / DVD drive - if that still exists
I do not care about sound
The most important point is that it is long enough for common applications and games and is sturdily built. I rarely need it, so I want to know the money invested long term.
In terms of price, I'm quite open, but a lot more than 2000 euro are already pretty painful.
Strong hardware and long battery life bites. It is only either one or the other, if you really want both, it is very quickly very expensive.
Generally I think you'd be better off with a stationary PC, and a slim notebook on the go.
I sorted for you:
Of course I can't expect a long battery life while gambling.
But a strong hardware does not automatically consume a lot of power, most components need almost nothing, as long as you do not need them.
My old notebook e.g. Did not use the dedicated graphics card, as long as I did not start a game, instead, the graphics ran over the graphics chip in the CPU.
I have a stationary PC, but I do not want to make big calls on the way.
PS:
I'll look at your list, thanks.
I asked myself the same question half a year ago. That's why I have a little idea. Generally, there are not too many choices for your criteria.
There are practically only 3 models:
Gigabyte Aero 15Xv8
Razer Blade 15
MSI G565
They do not look like gaming notebooks at first, but still have a lot of power. Cost but every 2,000 euro - 2,500 euro.
By the way, you will find detailed details and reviews of the models on notebookcheck.com. There you will also find a ranking on thin & light gaming notebooks that could help you further:
https://www.notebookcheck.com/...228.0.html
There you will also find some cheaper models, but none of them have a GTX 1070. Unfortunately, due to the more complicated architecture of thin gaming laptops, they all cost quite a bit.
Alternatively I can recommend the Surface Book 2 to you. Although it costs 2500 euro and has only a GTX 1060 6GB, but the extremely long-lasting battery, the silence at low load plus the touch screen to work were for me personally at that time the key selling points. I could not do without the tablet mode, which is great for editing PDF documents and the second better-to-use monitor. But I can't play Forza on Ultra, for example. If you have high graphics settings at 60 fps, I would recommend you the Surface Book. If it has to be more and a touch screen really does not matter (for pure programming and gaming is irrelevant), then one of the above.
