Dell Inspiron Laptop Advice

bigdeku

I'm going to be on the move a lot over the next year and am looking to buy a laptop that allows me to continue my digital art work. I'm considering getting a Dell Inspiron. I'm a student so I'm going to be doing a bit of everything: digital painting, character modelling in maya, character animation in maya, zbrush sculpting, substance painter texturing, some motion graphics work in MASH and AE, some editing in PremierePro, and some light game deving in unity.

The specs are: Intel Core i7-7700HQ, 256GD SSD + 1TB HDD, Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 6GB, 16GB RAM [max ram], 3.8GHz.

The only thing that worries me is that it doesn't have a 4K IPS screen (just a regular 1920x1080 display). There is another prebuilt Inspiron that has a 4K IPS screen but a GTX 1050Ti instead of the 1060, which I understand is a substantially weaker card, so I'd have to exchange one for the other.

Do these specs sound performative enough for character modelling/animation and game dev work?

Justo

I would suggest you ask this in the PC upgrade sticky. Personally, during my student days I did buy a Dell XPS L502x, but I hated it. The thing had a good video card and ok RAM, but it overheated so much it couldn't run anything. Since then, I shy away from buying Dell computers.

Then again, try asking this in the PC upgrade thread, lots of people that know more than I do are over there  

bigdeku

Thank you for the response. I've reposted there. I'm not really sure how I can judge the overheating of a computer. But maybe Dells are just bad for that?