Which one to choose from these 3 laptops offer?

[BrecMadak]

Greetings folks,

I need a replacement for my laptop primarily for my work, as a medical illustrator. I work with very large Photoshop files (easily reach over +1,5 GB with +50 layers) and usually have +50 tabs open at any given time.

There is a specific retailer where I have to redeem my credits, and I’d love to take your opinions as far as CPU performance is concerned. I am in between these three choices:

Asus ROG Strix SCAR 17 — €2,799 — Ryzen 9 7945HX

MSI Raider GE78 — €3,071 — i9 14900HX

MSI Vector GP78 — €3,399 — i9 13950HX

However, the build quality of Asus is mid whilst the MSIs have high-end build quality.

Now, to my understanding and of all the research I’ve done, PS mostly utilises processors with fewer cores but higher processor frequency. Such a case with Rhyzen having a higher base clock speed (2.5 GHz vs1.6 GHz vs 2.2 GHz) than its Intel competitors. Apart from that, Rhyzen beats Intel on most multi-core tests, however, it stays behind on single cores. And as far as I know, PS favours running on mostly single-core.

I appreciate comments helping me choose a cost-efficient option that serves my needs as future-proof.

Thank you for your attention.

[Bruce]

My personal choice would be the MSI GE78 - but that’s just me.
Reasoning, I just prefer Intel over Ryzen. No better logic than that really.

As to build quality, and this is about a 10 year old article I read that may have changed by now, something like 85% of all the worlds laptops are made in this one massive factory in Shanghai, they pump them out without storage or memory. The companies come and buy them by the container load and whack in the missing components based on the price point they are after then stick their own badge on it.

So the brand badge doesn’t mean much, they are (nearly) all made by the same mob.
I don’t even look at the manufacture’s name when buying, all that means to me is where the thing has to be sent when getting repaired.

[BrecMadak]

My personal choice would be the MSI GE78 - but that’s just me.
Reasoning, I just prefer Intel over Ryzen. No better logic than that really.

As to build quality, and this is about a 10 year old article I read that may have changed by now, something like 85% of all the worlds laptops are made in this one massive factory in Shanghai, they pump them out without storage or memory. The companies come and buy them by the container load and whack in the missing components based on the price point they are after then stick their own badge on it.

So the brand badge doesn’t mean much, they are (nearly) all made by the same mob.
I don’t even look at the manufacture’s name when buying, all that means to me is where the thing has to be sent when getting repaired.

I was already planning to go with MSI GE78 x) Cheers, man.

[Bruce]

You’d only want to look at higher models if they offered you something more, like multiple USB-C ports, or battery life or something.
Your usage does seem to be money driven, that is, more money = more grunt, but at >€3000 already, I feel you are in the sweet spot with the GE78. (y)

[Bruce]

Looks like no one else wants to chime in - I’ll close this as solved then.
Happy shopping