Unfortunately I cannot disclose that, I was more interested in knowing if it was a good set up.  What would you pay for it?

I wouldn't buy it unless I needed a Quadro - the other specs are similar to the Dell and Lenovo previously linked so I certainly wouldn't pay more than $1750 for it comparing it to those.

Here's another option.

Quadro is Nvidia's line of professional workstation graphics cards, and compete against the AMD firepro range.

In short they are very expensive per performance compared to gaming focused graphics cards, (such as geforce), and only really offer advantages to those who do certain specific graphics intensive professional tasks, such as complex 3D CAD, rendering, ray tracing, specialized video editing (some applications only), double accuracy computations. In short, the goal of these cards is to be accurate, with a gaming if you have an error on one ray or pixle  One of the biggest advantages these cards offer is that they are certified to work by some software companies like auto-desk.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/design-visualization/quadro-desktop-gpus/

I have one in my older home laptop and newer work laptop. Frankly not much value in them unless you do a lot of CAD.


What are your needs for the computer. For general use the Intel UHD 620 that is built into 8th gen cpu's as frankly fine, and will use a lot less power than a dedicated board. In fact nvidia has a feature where is will switch away from it's chip to save power unless you fire up an intensive application. I would only look at a dedicated board is you are doing 3D cad, gaming etc.

just to complicate things 10th gen intel are coming to laptops any moment now

TBH I was looking for the best I can get for around $2K...

As a laptop it will always be portable, but I am not commuting with it, it will spend most of it's life at home unless we take it on holiday, then 15inch screen is still better for the kids to watch movies on.

Minimum 8GB Ram, would like 16GB however...

SSD of 256GB min, but would really prefer 512 or more.

Intel i7 processor (or equivalent AMD if it is just as good).

Decent enough graphics to handle processing and editing of GoPro footage.

Like HP, but would consider Lenovo or Dell.  Although aesthetically Lenovo isn't as nice IMO.

Black or silver finish (inside), kinda like the black but whatever shows up the fingerprints less... so maybe silver.

Cant think of anything else but it feels like I am missing something.

jasonwaiheke:

 

TBH I was looking for the best I can get for around $2K...

 

As a laptop it will always be portable, but I am not commuting with it, it will spend most of it's life at home unless we take it on holiday, then 15inch screen is still better for the kids to watch movies on.

 

Minimum 8GB Ram, would like 16GB however...

 

SSD of 256GB min, but would really prefer 512 or more.

 

Intel i7 processor (or equivalent AMD if it is just as good).

 

Decent enough graphics to handle processing and editing of GoPro footage.

 

Like HP, but would consider Lenovo or Dell.  Although aesthetically Lenovo isn't as nice IMO.

 

Black or silver finish (inside), kinda like the black but whatever shows up the fingerprints less... so maybe silver.

 

Cant think of anything else but it feels like I am missing something.

 

Yep - you're missing something - the $1200 that Dell had off the laptop I linked to last week.  It's back to $2999 this week.

It has everything you have listed above and ultraportable.

a half price laptop 

https://www.dell.com/en-nz/shop/laptops-ultrabooks-notebooks/inspiron-15-7000/spd/inspiron-15-7580-laptop/c5175802nz

tukapa1:

jasonwaiheke:

TBH I was looking for the best I can get for around $2K...

As a laptop it will always be portable, but I am not commuting with it, it will spend most of it's life at home unless we take it on holiday, then 15inch screen is still better for the kids to watch movies on.

Minimum 8GB Ram, would like 16GB however...

SSD of 256GB min, but would really prefer 512 or more.

Intel i7 processor (or equivalent AMD if it is just as good).

Decent enough graphics to handle processing and editing of GoPro footage.

Like HP, but would consider Lenovo or Dell.  Although aesthetically Lenovo isn't as nice IMO.

Black or silver finish (inside), kinda like the black but whatever shows up the fingerprints less... so maybe silver.

Cant think of anything else but it feels like I am missing something.

Yep - you're missing something - the $1200 that Dell had off the laptop I linked to last week.  It's back to $2999 this week.

It has everything you have listed above and ultraportable.

jasonwaiheke:

tukapa1:

jasonwaiheke:

TBH I was looking for the best I can get for around $2K...

As a laptop it will always be portable, but I am not commuting with it, it will spend most of it's life at home unless we take it on holiday, then 15inch screen is still better for the kids to watch movies on.

Minimum 8GB Ram, would like 16GB however...

SSD of 256GB min, but would really prefer 512 or more.

Intel i7 processor (or equivalent AMD if it is just as good).

Decent enough graphics to handle processing and editing of GoPro footage.

Like HP, but would consider Lenovo or Dell.  Although aesthetically Lenovo isn't as nice IMO.

Black or silver finish (inside), kinda like the black but whatever shows up the fingerprints less... so maybe silver.

Cant think of anything else but it feels like I am missing something.

Yep - you're missing something - the $1200 that Dell had off the laptop I linked to last week.  It's back to $2999 this week.

It has everything you have listed above and ultraportable.

Oh dammit!

jasonwaiheke:

 

What about this customised Lenovo option?

 

 

 

 

If you actually need quadro on a laptop you generally have to spend over $5K. P500 is an entry level card... much slower than most consumer cards. Some CAD apps see benefits from driver support but many 3D apps like Maya don't, and only 2GB VRAM makes it pretty awful for GPU rendering.

The main reason to go quadro is 10 bit colour depth which is great for compositing. Of course a laptop that cheap is not going to have a 10 bit panel lol... so I wouldn't bother.

BTW RTX Quadro laptops with 16GB VRAM are almost here :)

https://www.engadget.com/2019/05/28/nvidia-quadro-rtx-graphics-laptop-roundup/

I Think Lenovo is taking the lead with it's laptops in 2019 . 

I suggest Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Extreme 

Check this Review it may help : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m58szW0QhaE&t=78s