T450s, W550s or T550?

Hi everyone,

I have briefly browsed through their specs but may still want your opinions. It seems to me that the main differences are that:
- W550s comes with NVIDIA K620M and 16 Gb RAM (5 lbs)
- T550 comes with Intel 5500 and 16 Gb RAM (5 lbs)
- T 450s comes with Intel 5500 and 12+8 Gb RAM (3.5 lbs)

I care about:
- performance (to be specific I do some gaming e.g. DDO, and sometimes need to analyze 800 Mb ~ >10 Gb images using ImageJ / ImagePro)
- lower weight has advantages as I may bring it around to work everyday.

I don't care much about outlook or off-centre keypad .

So just wondering which model will you think best suits my need? Will I need a model with more RAM and a better graphic card?

Thanks for the help!

 

I say the T450s if you looking for portability since they offer the same CPUs, unless you want the GPU. I don't know much gaming, so you're on your own there. One thing to note is the good screen on the T550/W550s is the 3K LCD, which is too small to read at its native resolution and scaling is a mixed bag in Windows. Hopefully, Windows 10 will have improvements, but I've not been following it much.

 

My pick would be the t550,
the w550s have some throttling issues.

 

Thanks guys. In the end I picked T450s for its smaller size and portability, coz I think I will really need to carry it to work everyday. Will update when I get some hand-on experience. Ty.

 

I bought both. I got the T450s and then saw a great deal on the W550s with core-i7 and the 2880x1620 Touchscreen with 3 year warranty for $1000 on eBay. So I bought that too... The T450s is nice in portability but the W550s feels more like a workstation.