New Laptop

[philpursglove]

I'm looking at buying a new personal laptop. It'll be mostly for general use, some gaming (not right now, but I'd like to be able to run Flight Sim 2020 down the line) and some personal programming/database work. It's likely it'll be mostly used just round the house, so weight's not really a concern for me.

This is what I've come up with:

Chassis & Display	Optimus Series: 15.6" Matte Full HD 144Hz 45% NTSC LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)	Intel® Core™ i7 Six Core Processor 10750H (2.6GHz, 5GHz Turbo)
Memory (RAM)	32GB Corsair 2133MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card	NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1660 Ti - 6.0GB GDDR6 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1
1st Storage Drive	NOT REQUIRED
1st M.2 SSD Drive	1TB PCS PCIe M.2 SSD (2000 MB/R, 1100 MB/W)
2nd M.2 SSD Drive	1TB PCS PCIe M.2 SSD (2000 MB/R, 1100 MB/W)

Configurator https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/optimusXI-15/dHSnT4s2K5/

Any thoughts/critiques would be much appreciated.

 

[philpursglove]

@Nursemorph Thanks for that. I've updated it with those changes - spec at https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/optimusXI-15/p9yXUtwrcr/ I've also turned the first drive down to 500GB from 1TB. Budget - I'd like to keep it under £1500, this is currently coming up at £1131.

 

[philpursglove]

@Nursemorph Your advice is much appreciated, thanks!

 

[FerrariVie]

Since you still have budget left, have you thought about upping your GPU to a 2070? I know that chassis doesn't allow that, but there are other options around with better GPU on similar pricing, like the Nova, Proteus or Defiance