I am going to get the new one with the 970m installed. The reason I am going with the GS is because it is lighter and I travel a significant amount and don't want to lug the GT series on my back around the airports and other locations.
My buddy did that for the place he works at lol. He does a lot of rendering and stuff with AutoCAD and such...and convinced them to pay for half of a Dragon Edition GT70...which was $4k when new just last year.@PP
I haven't asked, but the main problem with work software is it isn't fully tested on Win 8 or 8.1. This is my company Avtec Inc.com. We make dispatch software purely Windows based.
But from my personal experience everything works fine.
I plan on asking the boss man if I can just use the one computer for both purposes, if that is the case then I will be getting the GT series for more breathing room and power.
Hmm can dual boot 7 and 8. DOesn't the GT have 2 HDD bays or mSATA? Or would your boss let you run your work stuff in a VM? Carrying a single "heavy" laptop is one thing but 2 **** that.