Wait end of this month and pray that T590 Citibank deal make a comeback.

GTX950m?

That thing is seriously underpowered in 2019.

Save up about 3k for a laptop with GTX1650, that should last quite a long time for you.

2nd hand laptops don’t have a large or established market like say 2nd hand phones.

It’s solely based on the buyers’ willingness to pay. So best is to start with a price and let buyer check and negotiate themselves.

This post has been edited by msacras: Sep 9 2019, 07:23 PM

Nah; even apple did that, LOL.

So far only those that’s experienced with desktop PC making, like Gigabyte/MSI can get thermal done right in slim system.

This post has been edited by msacras: Sep 13 2019, 12:45 AM

Thinkpad X395 is the perfect option for you then.

Currently the price start at RM2.5k++, you can configure it yourself to have a better screen and 16GB of RAM (bare minimum if you plan to use it for 2-3 years down the line).

It’s light (1.3kg) but still come with a comfortable and solid Thinkpad style keyboard.

At end of this month, if you have Citibank credit card, you can get a bigger discount for it too. But the final price after configurations is probably around RM3k too.

This post has been edited by msacras: Sep 17 2019, 06:35 PM

IIRC, last month end Lenovo X Citibank sales do include X1 Extreme Gen2, which fits all your requirements and still have headroom for more.

Next week is end of this month, they gonna have sale again, but not too sure if X1 Extreme will be inside the sale list again or not though.

This post has been edited by msacras: Sep 22 2019, 11:44 AM

Ryzen mobile APUs are at best only quadcore though.

Their performance do trail quite close to what Intel’s quadcores can offer in single threaded tasks, while at scenarios beating Intel in multi-threaded tasks.

The deciding factor here is whether you need the more powerful GPU that Ryzen APU offer or not.

Y530 is a real performer. It steadily outperform other devices with the same specs (if you’re not aware, same specs/processors device can have huge differences in performance simply for its design/thermal performance).

And it is last gen (not that it actually matter apart from the GTX1050TI refresh to GTX1650 in Y540/Y7000SE), yet still performing better than many this gen devices.

This post has been edited by msacras: Sep 22 2019, 05:59 PM

X395 if you don’t upgrade those optional stuffs like big SSD, backlight keyboard and so, it will be around RM2.9k, backed with 3 years onsite warranty.

P/S: I’m calculating it based on 45% off sale coming up end of this month on CITIBANK partnership. Go Kopitiam there’s a thread by Benefon if you don’t know about it and wish to know more details.

This post has been edited by msacras: Sep 24 2019, 09:35 PM

Thinkpad has its fair share of reputations for corporates or prosumers use.

This time round, their pricing/offer is more attractive than HP’s and Dell’s business laptops counterpart.

If you talk about mainstream gaming laptop, Lenovo strike the jackpot with their Legion Y530 last year, offering solid gaming laptop with outstanding performance in the entry level market (RM3-4k).

XPS is Dell's answer to premium laptop market like Macbook of Apple. Its generally more concentrate on the lightness, style and premium experiences than performance and functionality.

In short, its specifically designed for ppl who want a Macbook-ish laptop that run on Windows.

On the other hands, those Thinkpad and Latitude lines of laptops are meant for business or corporate markets. Their main focus will be on stability and durability.

For your requirement, a Thinkpad X395 is the perfect solution to you, but you just missed the CITIBANK partnership sale which lower its price down to 3.1k-ish. There's still a chance that there will be more sales upcoming, so do keep an eye arounds if youre interested in X395.

There’s 2 lines of CPU under 10th gen.

One is Comet Lake, which as explained before, it’s just another rebrand of current 8th gen Whiskey Lake with practically no differences in performance or value. If it don’t come at an extra price, no harm getting it; but if it comes with 8th gen Whiskey Lake at a cheaper price, I will take it over 10th gen anyday.

Another line is Ice Lake, which can be identify with their weird naming scheme i7-1065G7 and so. Those should have marginally better processing power and lower power consumption than current 8th-gen Whiskey Lake. They also have more up to par iGPU that can at last rival NVIDIA or AMD basic level dGPU like MX150 and do. But again, since the yield of this 10nm CPU is insufficient, don’t expect to find it in much of the laptops out there, and certainly won’t be on budget/sub RM3k laptop. This Ice Lake is also very dependent on the RAM speed for its iGPU performance, hence its gonna be paired with LPDDR4X soldered RAM like those in smartphones all the time. 8GB RAM laptop won’t be future proof enough, and 16GB model gonna cost an arm and leg more.

This post has been edited by msacras: Oct 8 2019, 06:01 PM