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Originally Posted by psyang
There are a few non-alienware brands that can give you real desktop performance in a laptop. Check out offerings from Eurocom/Sager/Clevo. Also, gaming laptops are getting thinner and lighter. Check out the msi gs40 - i7 skylake, nvidia 970gtx, full hd screen, in a 3.5 lb laptop. One thing - gaming cards don't always do perform as well on engineering software like autocad (things may have changed though) . You may be better off looking for something in the nvidia quadro line.
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This. Don't go for one of the big name gaming brands like Alienware or Falcon NW, Voodoo, or the MSI or ASUS gaming lines etc.
I custom built a Sager/Clevo laptop several years ago and it kicks ass and looks like a business laptop even though it had one of the most powerful CPUs and GPUs at the time. Because it wasn't a gaming machine with all the fancy lights, it was also much cheaper. Hell, even now 5 years later, I saw my laptop in the James Bond Spectre movie being used as Q's personal banged up machine!
Almost all laptops in the world are made by a few OEMs in Taiwan. People don't know they also have their own generic and uncommon brands that most people on the street would never recognize There's a lot of non-descript stuff with powerful hardware that doesn't look like a gaudy bling bling gaming laptop with flashing lights and giant vents.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/foru...-lounges.1069/
As far as remote desktop, the biggest concern is network latency and even if the network remains fast and consistent enough, you'll have some slow-down, lag, and redraw programs as I assume your program will be graphics/CAD intensive.