My work issued me some random shitty dell with parts that barely work and something fails about every 4 months... This is not one of their high end models, but it does have an i7 6700 and 64gb of RAM. So when it does work it is decently fast.
Intel i7 6700k, nVidia 980, 64gb of RAM, RAID 1 of M2 Samsung 920 SSDs (read spead of 1.2GB/s) for root filesystem, and a RAID 1 of 2TB HGST spinning disks for long term storage.
It is great for short compile times while still being technically portable. I do a little openCL/cuda work on it, but not as much as I had planned. It is more than capable for this.
I occasionally game and I generally put the settings on "ultra" and have no complaints about framerates (but I also play older games like borderlands II and indy games). I usually keep games in a VM too, an that doesn't hurt the performance enough to notice.
I went with System76 instead of buying the clevo/sager alternative (because System76 rebrands clevo/sager) is the ease in getting parts and support from System76. They are always easy to work with and I am able to get parts for old machines easily. This is valuable to me, because I am comfortable doing my own hardware maintenance up to and including soldering of minor parts. I have been able to get individual power jacks from them.
That's a beast, doesn't it weigh a ton and don't you worry about having spinners knocking around in your bag?
Do you need that much in a luggable? I would have that setup on a desktop, having that in my portable machine would remove most of the advantages of it (for me at least)?
I work out of 3 offices (home and 2 jobs). I have desktops at two of the offices that run servers that matter for local office stuff. I move this laptop around when I plan on being at a given office for a work day. This thing builds faster than any desktop I have (currently).
I have never tried to bring it on a plane, I suspect they would charge me for an extra ticket because the laptop is too heavy. Seriously, I would bring one of my smaller machines if I planned on being mobile multiple times through the day. I have clevo ultrabook, access to a macbook air through one of my jobs and a small collection of netbooks, if I don't need much I might just stick with my phone (or a tablet) and a bluetooth keyboard.
For my personal machine I have the previous version of this: https://system76.com/laptops/bonobo
I put in my own ram and disks.
Intel i7 6700k, nVidia 980, 64gb of RAM, RAID 1 of M2 Samsung 920 SSDs (read spead of 1.2GB/s) for root filesystem, and a RAID 1 of 2TB HGST spinning disks for long term storage.
It is great for short compile times while still being technically portable. I do a little openCL/cuda work on it, but not as much as I had planned. It is more than capable for this.
I occasionally game and I generally put the settings on "ultra" and have no complaints about framerates (but I also play older games like borderlands II and indy games). I usually keep games in a VM too, an that doesn't hurt the performance enough to notice.
I went with System76 instead of buying the clevo/sager alternative (because System76 rebrands clevo/sager) is the ease in getting parts and support from System76. They are always easy to work with and I am able to get parts for old machines easily. This is valuable to me, because I am comfortable doing my own hardware maintenance up to and including soldering of minor parts. I have been able to get individual power jacks from them.