Need help with a new laptop

[EricHiggin]

Cobretti2 said:

EricHiggin said:

That's a nice unit. Good specs for the price. Like Bb said, another stick of RAM would really complete that unit. 32GB probably wouldn't be all that much overkill a few years down the road, if any, based on what your looking to use it for. When the price is right it would be a nice upgrade and would also give you dual channel, which should give you a nice performance boost as well.

Ram upgrade is def on the cards. I do that always with the laptops I get.

I kept further reading to see if RTX2080 was worth it or not

https://www.notebookcheck.net/GeForce-RTX-2070-Laptop-vs-GeForce-RTX-2080-Laptop-vs-GeForce-RTX-2080-Ti-Desktop_9551_9541_9526.247598.0.html

Not sure if $1100 extra is worth a 20% performance boost on the GPU. Seems like logic went out the window here lol.

I guess it depends on how productive you really need to be, and how much your time is worth, but the 2070 seems to be the sweet spot in most cases, laptop or desktop RTX. Enough performance for a somewhat reasonable price. If the absolute highest level or productivity isn't exactly necessary, then I wouldn't bother dishing out the extra cash for that 2080. A third the cost of the entire laptop for a 20% or so GPU performance upgrade seems like the logical breaking point. Going beyond that would basically be for those who have money to burn and simply want the best.