As to battery time I continue to see a TEN TO ONE change in hours when reviewing laptops. 10 hours with low backlight and web use and one hour under load. You can't take those battery times and compare this way. Find a review site like notebookcheck that runs the battery through the low and high load tests.
We've had both makes and my view is you have two capable machines. A horse race.
How does the GPU differ?
Hello,
I need to upgrade to a laptop capable of heavy data analytics and 3D modelling and visualization projects. Quad cores are quite expensive and with my little background on computer hardware, I have decided on the following models- both are used and priced at $700:
1) MSI 15.6 " Gaming Laptop GP62 7REX LEOPARD PRO i7-7700HQ GTX 16GB DDR4 1TB SSD MINT
2) Dell Precision 3520 i7-7700HQ FHD 16GB, 512gb SSD, Nvidia Quadro M620 2GB Laptop
SSD is double in the MSI; however I have been told DELL is in general more reliable and the Dell model is under warranty until 2020. Plus battery life in Dell is close to 10 hours vs. 4 hours in MSI according to reviews. Both are a year old. Also MSI has windows 10 home vs. Dell has windows 10 pro, savings of $100 to upgrade.
I am leaning towards Dell but MSI's market value seems higher so I was wondering if there is any reason other than SSD space to go with the MSI?
What do you guys suggest?
Thank you very much.

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