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Originally Posted by jyl
Short version: I'm shopping for a laptop. I'm thinking of splashing out for a Xeon. Tell me I'm stupid and save me some money.
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Alt version: should I just forget the laptop and buy a desktop?
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Makes no sense to me to pay the premium for a Xeon laptop if you're not going to move it often. If you need CPU, buy a desktop with honking multi-core Xeons, and then buy a 17" laptop with a decent I7 for when you want to be mobile. Put lots of RAM into both and use SSDs.
If you don't have particular requirements for gaming, high-end CAD or rendering, then just about any recent GPU will be fine, so don't drop any extra cash for that.
As for more monitors, look at the ultra-wide (and curved) 38" or 49" monitors like the Dell U3818DW or U4919DW - as much real estate as a pair of big monitors close together but no bezel in the middle, and crazy cheap for what you get - the 5K 49" is cheaper than a pair of 30s cost a few years ago.
And a firestick/chromecast/NUC/pi driving a TV is a great idea (the devices built-in to TVs tend to age/stop getting updated really quickly, so just buy a half-decent TV with adequate # of HDMI ports).