Aaron Stanley King

I’m really enjoying my new laptop. About a month ago I splurged and upgraded to the Dell XPS 15 9570 .  It has the 8th Gen 6 core i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD and Nvidia GTX 1050 TI. So far I’ve only been running Windows but I might make it dual boot later. I’m running on the latest preview builds of Windows and its been pretty fun.  This Dell has everything I would need to code almost just about everything. With the GTX, I decided to add some games and the Unity developer tools on it.  It’s doing quite well.  It a really good gamer compared to other laptops that I’ve owned. One thing that I downgraded was the monitor.  I didn’t appreciate the glossy high res touch display on my XPS 13.  I actually prefer to code on this matte finish, non-touch, HD display.  1080 is fine and I don’t need the 4k.  It has been said that I’ll get better battery life with this set up also. When I’m presenting, 4k doesn’t help all that much either.  Most conferences ba...

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