Eagle Eyes On Tech

Eagle lost his voice to the flu, Jared from UpDownLeftDie is filling in. Microsoft Edge is being replaced with Chromium, AMD rumored to be bringing 16 cores to the main stream, and the RTX TItan is now real!

Jared is a twitch streamer and can be found at Twitch.tv/updownleftdie

New Xeon CPUs vs new AMD Epyc CPUs. Bethesda can't figure out how to launch a game while EA knows how to piss us off. And samsung shows off real inovation.

==Dell==

Thin and light

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/inspiron-13-7000/spd/inspiron-13-7370-laptop This was a bit of a compramise... which is a shame. I wanted to recomend the dell XPS 13, but the value just isn't there... 1,000 is just too much IMO for a thin and light basic use laptop of that kind of performance.



mid range

https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebooks/new-vostro-5471/spd/vostro-14-5471-laptop This one is a nice spot down the middle. An acceptable price point with alot of options to be a small mobile work horse while avoiding the high price of the XPS line and Latitude line.



workstation

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/dell-g3-15-gaming/spd/g-series-15-3579-laptop a great budget buy, granting a quad core i5 at the base price and hard to find the upgrades too expensive. The G5 and G7 versions however are little puzzling, offering only stype for addtional cost. If you wanted to spend more to get more machine, go for the alienwares rather than the G5 and G7



Used notes:

Dell is one of my favorite laptops to grab used since most businesses use it and the super high end is built very well. I would focus on Dell Latitude models for used, especially the Latitude E6240, Latitude E6440, and the Precision m4800/m6800 which can be had for 200 to 500 price range.



==HP==

Thin and light

https://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-probook-x360-11-g2-ee-notebook-pc-p-2ez91ut-aba--1 I am super disapointed that this was the only pick I could take that fits my paramaters of being the ideal thin and light. HP just prices small laptops way high. I would rather recomend the Spectre but that is just too expensive



mid range

https://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-probook-640-g4-notebook-pc-customizable-2gl96av-mb Im fairly happy with this pick... but I do wish there was something built stronger in this price point...



workstation

https://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/omen-laptop-15t-3ns58av-1 yea, no surprise there. The omen is a respectable gaming laptop. Get as much laptop as you can afford. The more you buy now, the longer it lasts as long as you treat it well.



Used

Elite books and Z books ONLY.



==Lenovo==

Thin and light

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-x/ThinkPad-X280/p/22TP2TX2800 Come on... did you really think I was gonna pick anything else? It's think pad. Even in it's modern form, the X series can't steer you wrong.



mid range

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-t-series/ThinkPad-T480/p/22TP2TT4800 This IS the idea of a midrange laptop. Large enough to have work real estate, small enough to be portable, and plenty of IO and power on top of top tier durrability. Some have said there is a...