- Jan 16, 2004
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Hello AnandTech! It’s been a while.
I need a laptop for work primarily to run 5-10 android emulators simultaneously. I am currently using a generation old MacBook Pro (i5-5287U, 8GB) that absolutely chugs running 4 instances.
Here is a fully-loaded Lenovo P51:
This seems to be the fastest CPU (most cores, too) and largest amount of RAM available on a laptop. I don’t need daily portability, but it has to be a laptop because I travel.
Alternatively I can get a i7-7700HQ and 32GB of RAM for about half the cost from a different vendor. This lesser specced machine is still going to be much faster than my MacBook Pro and is probably a better “value.”
Would I notice any difference in my use case going from the cheaper laptop to the more expensive one? Is my virtualization use case going to benefit drastically from the extra cache and slightly faster speed of the Xeon?
Once I pay for the Xeon, the cost to add ECC RAM is insignificant so I figured any extra stability would be worth it at that point. The Xeon also comes with a Quadro M2200 and the base i7 P51 comes with a Quadro M1200, but I don’t think this matters for me.
Anything I’m missing?
I’m very out of the loop on hardware, so any advice here would be appreciated! Thanks!
[Update 2018-1-23]
I ended up getting a Ryzen 7 1700-based laptop. The cost was comparable to the i7-7700HQ, but with 8 cores the performance for multi-threaded applications seems to destroy any offering from Intel at the moment.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+7+1700&id=2970
I need a laptop for work primarily to run 5-10 android emulators simultaneously. I am currently using a generation old MacBook Pro (i5-5287U, 8GB) that absolutely chugs running 4 instances.
Here is a fully-loaded Lenovo P51:
- Xeon E3-1535M v6 Processor (4 Cores, 8MB Cache, up to 4.20GHz)
- 15.6" 4K (3840x2160), anti-glare, IPS
- 64GB(16x4) DDR4 2400MHz ECC SoDIMM
- NVIDIA Quadro M2200 4GB GDDR5
- 1TB SSD PCIe TLC OPAL2
This seems to be the fastest CPU (most cores, too) and largest amount of RAM available on a laptop. I don’t need daily portability, but it has to be a laptop because I travel.
Alternatively I can get a i7-7700HQ and 32GB of RAM for about half the cost from a different vendor. This lesser specced machine is still going to be much faster than my MacBook Pro and is probably a better “value.”
Would I notice any difference in my use case going from the cheaper laptop to the more expensive one? Is my virtualization use case going to benefit drastically from the extra cache and slightly faster speed of the Xeon?
Once I pay for the Xeon, the cost to add ECC RAM is insignificant so I figured any extra stability would be worth it at that point. The Xeon also comes with a Quadro M2200 and the base i7 P51 comes with a Quadro M1200, but I don’t think this matters for me.
Anything I’m missing?
I’m very out of the loop on hardware, so any advice here would be appreciated! Thanks!
[Update 2018-1-23]
I ended up getting a Ryzen 7 1700-based laptop. The cost was comparable to the i7-7700HQ, but with 8 cores the performance for multi-threaded applications seems to destroy any offering from Intel at the moment.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+7+1700&id=2970
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