u/ItsJustToJerkOff

Hello good guys!

I'll try to be straight forward, but I thought I made up my choice regarding my next purchase, but "just in case" I waited the FW annoucement.

I'm now stuck in decision hell since I saw the FW13 Pro and it feels like I need some pragmatism in my life, what's better than asking stranger on reddit for that. It's been 5 days and I'm not pulling any trigger because of FOMO.

Few things to know:

• I have a 3000€ budget.
• I have a 2*32g SODIMM DDR5 5600mhz kit.
• I have a LPCAMM2 64gb module.
• I already have SSDs.
• I multi task a lot (100s of tabs), run windows, occasionally game (no triple A), and I earn my money using the adobe suite.
• I went back to my GT76 10SFS desk replacement after returning a FW16 Gen 1. I don't have much travel coming in the future so I can wait few months with my MSI (June was perfect but I've been waiting so much the only batch I can get are now August, I still can wait).

I was dead set on getting a FW16 9 HX 370 + the oculink community mod and going down the eGPU path (5070 Ti). But both the oculink dev kit and FW13 pro announcement got me "wth should I get?".

My biggest pet peeve with FW16 was the noise under almost no-load and battery life whenever I taveled. I never daily drove a 13 inches laptop, but I mostly use my laptop plugged in at my desk.

So I feel like 13 is great and easy to carry (I sometimes grab my wife's MBP and its battery life made me almost switch to the apple), but at the same time, why go with no GPU if it's only used as a desktop replacement?

I can't do desktop, I'm not looking for the best value and I'd love to stay in the FW ecosystem as I believe in the mission so much.

If you were on my shoes, not a huge power user, occasional gamer, 3000€ budget, already got RAM and SSD sorted out, windows user, mostly use my laptop at my desk but still need to be portable: what would you chose?

TL;DR: I've waited so long I'm now in analysis paralysis, and the more I wait the harder it gets, I just need some sense from a stranger.