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Do you want another laptop, and do you want a 17" screen again?
How much do you want to spend?
What sort of work do you do? Photo editing, and if yes, do you use a very high pixel count camera?
Using Dell as a kind of filter, these are the 17" screen options
http://www.dell.com/nz/p/laptops#!facets=42443~0~212422&p=1
I like to use eBay to home in on a short list, as it has such good filters.
I also prefer to look at gaming laptops as their spec is generally also suited to image editing. Fast GPUs, a good amount of RAM. I didn't think Illustrator was too heavy on system resources, and Photoshop functions are mostly lightly threaded, so a good clock speed, and fast memory is more important than a multi core CPU.
These Puget Systems articles are for desktops, but look at the benchmarks.
Now look at these benchmarks. The i9-7980X is a $2000 CPU, but for Photoshop at least, you get similar performance from the _much_ cheaper CPUs
You can't compare these two chart like with like because they show a percentage performance of one of the CPUs. , but you can compare the times in the two table directly one against the other.
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