Whelp, I need a new laptop

hey Sup Forums please help me decide on a new notebook.

Currently I still have a Dell Latitude 6420 and while it is still plenty of fast for productivity, I love the keyboard, I love the super convenient docking station, but it weighs a ton. Like an actual ton (2,4kg or 5.3 lbs). Also it can't even run League of Legends.

Now I will have to go on business trips twice a year for a couple months and I will be staying in a hotel room in a questionable country, so I will be taking the laptop with me pretty much all the time and would really like to play some Rocket League and occasionally League of Legends in the evenings.

I'm sure a GTX 960M will be plenty so I figured I'd go with Dell XPS 15 (9550), since I could also get the thunderbolt dock and have a very similar experience to my aging Latitude.
Originally I liked the Asus Zenbook (UX501), but I don't think I'd like the glossy screen.

But now with the advent of desktop GPUs in notebooks, I could even play demanding games on something like the Asus RoG Strix GL502.

TL:DR: is it wasteful to get a 960m, when you could have a desktop 1060 instead? Asus GL502, Asus UX501 or Dell XPS 15? Which would you get and why?

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I hate that this one looks so much like gaming garbage.

come on, some input please? I've been here forever giving useful advice and I get that it's not your favorite topic, but I can't decide.

>an actual ton (2,4kg or 5.3 lbs)

wait for the XPS refresh with the 1050

yeah it's not much to lift, but it is really heavy, especially when you will be carrying it everywhere you go. When I used to hand my laptop to thinkpad owners they were always shocked by weight and almost dropped it.

Is the 1050 confirmed? I thought it was only rumored. Also thanks for the reply.

just admit it, you want to buy new cool laptops
it's fine

Pretty much a rumor but maybe worth a wait?
Otherwise there are also things like razer blade and alienware 13 if you don't mind le epik gaymer stuff.

Well, that's not entirely wrong.

Yeah I guess you are right, I even have until February. Also I would feel sort of stupid running around with a gaming laptop.
Thank you.

that's the spirit. here's my input: if i had the money i'd get an xps
if you want a gpu for gayming get a desktop really, unless you're working with a gpu, like rendering 3D stuff or whatever, you don't need one.

i'm waiting for a zenbook i got off ebay for $175

Thanks, will probably do even if the refresh doesn't come out in time.

I have a desktop though, yet I can hardly take my Silverstone FT02 with me to China regularly.

don't fall for the qhd and touchscreen memes

I agree with you and I wouldn't have. Also I never felt the urge to have fingerprints on my laptop screen.

definitely hold off on buying a gaymer laptop with 9x series gpus OP, the jump in performance is so big that it's worth waiting a couple of more months until more shit gets released that doesn't look half retarded

Get a laptop this week while the Black Friday deals are on.

I just got an X1 Carbon with
i5, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD
for $1,145 (Canadian, Pre-Tax) which is $850 USD.

After tax $950 USD.

Specs in pic related. Chose Carbon > XPS because it's an ultrabook with all the ports I need, solid battery life, much better keyboard than the XPS, and the IBMEPP discount in the ThinkPad General thread combined with the Black Friday deals brought the price down a ton

Get the xps 15 1080p with 512 GB SSD.
Best value/specs on the market atm, otherwise you can wait a month and get the refresh.
It's a shitty laptop, but it's the best you can get.

Second best alternative is the macbook pro 15 >noports edition.

Third best alternative is the razer blade >le edgy green everything edition.

The market is fucked right now

Is the X1 user-serviceable? Can you replace the RAM, battery and HDD?

Why the heck does all of Sup Forums need 500+GB of onboard SSD? OP, I recommend you strongly consider putting your dollars towards CPU, RAM, and build quality, and the store your anime on external storage.

This is an ultrabook, so user upgrading/servicing is limited.

RAM is onboard I believe (verify this), so not easy to upgrade. 8GB is the only choice, as far as I can tell. Should be plenty, unless your running chrome or gaming - neither of which you should be doing on this machine.

HDD isn't offered. Base is 128SSD. SSD is replaceable.

Battery is replaceable.

When you work with data (I'm a data science/ML student) it stacks up quickly, add a couple of movies and series, music and pics, and you get to 500GB easily.

Fair, fair.

Does anybody have experience with 1440p or 4k screens on a ~15" notebook?
How well does it work when a program doesn't scale? Still usable?