Well since you're doing what I'm guessing is editing and photoshop and what not why would you settle for 1080p when you can have 4K. I get external display but if you wanted an external display you can get a kick ass desktop for that much. So thinkpad
I can tell you do not go with HP. Purchased an HP from a friend of a friend great laptop i5 tried to fix its short commings and upgrade it. It would not take upgrades tried 5 different makes of wifi and the laptop would not boot had to put the original back in and use a usb wifi. Found out from my tech shop that this is a common problem with HP using non HP parts gets you a brick.
It depends on the level of Laptop you buy from HP, I have a Spectre X360 and its a dream of an ultrabook.
I would actually buy the HP in this scenario. You said Adobe Apps, and Adobe Loves Cuda. Your talking about almost 3x the cuda core count going from the M2000M to the M5000M, and that really will make a bigger difference in your workflow than any other component in your laptop.
I have an HP... can confirm they blacklist WiFi cards that weren't what came with the machine... regardless of what level of HP you buy as @thecaveman mentioned.
Been a good laptop otherwise. Well - Technically the motherboard did die. However this was almost 6 years of heavy use.
Why are we so hung up on the wifi card, the HP comes with the Intel 8260 AC which is their top of the line Wireless AC chip from Intel right now, its not a problem.
I don't think we are. I'm merely affirming what @RissViss said. Depending on how you read your comment one might think that only some HP laptops have issue with upgrades. Cheers
The laptop has high end parts packed into a small case. When running heavy apps the machine will run hot , and the terrible little fans won't keep it cool at all . Therefor it really doesn't matter how high end the parts are if they constantly throttle back to prevent overheating.
Hope you aren't planning on it running on it's battery during all this as well.
3000$ would buy you an excellent desktop workstation , or a laptop about half the speed.
The P50 also has better CPU options. I would generally try to avoid the i7 6700hq. Its a good processor for most people, but it has a pretty small amount of cache and will most likely throttle.
The i7 6820hq or above is probably where you want to be.
You could also look at getting that crazy clevo work station with the full i7 6700K and the full gtx 980.
THAT will run adobe just fine. It weighs only a few pounds more, but battery life is shit. ~2 hours.