Best Laptop
I am budgeting about $1000 to spend on a computer. Looking for suggestions on what you all think are the best laptops I could look into. Thanks!
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Dell XPS 13/15 end of story
+1, went from an HP Spectre I got in ~2016 to a new Dell XPS 15 this week, I am very impressed. Probably a little more than OP's $1k budget though
Lenovo thinkpad x1 carbon*
New Dell XPS17 - has much better specs. However I use my laptop for video editing and sometimes a little bit gaming too. If you dont need that just go for an inexpensive model around 800€ that should always be enough for Microsoft office
I bought the Lenovo E14 with an Ryzen 5 processor. Thing runs like a champ - and I paid just under $800 i believe. I live and die by the Lenovo computers - not sure how you feel about them, especially if you already use one for work.
But I'm happy with it so far. Had it for 5 months or so and use it all the time. Running 15+ chrome tabs, Office suite, spotify, no problems.
Before this I had the Gen 3 X1 Carbon. Used that all through college until the screen crapped out on me after 4ish years.
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Get an amd Ryzen laptop with newest generation processor if you can. They’re cheaper + significantly more powerful amd energy efficient than intel. Dream is a xps 15 with amd
The new M1 chip Macbook Pro.
You're getting almost 2-3x the battery life of a comparable laptop (SIXTEEN hours of real world usage) with better/equal performance than windows laptops.
Tight integration with other Apple devices, (subjectively) much better UX overall.
Only downside is you can't play PC-only games. But this is a laptop anyway and you should have a gaming PC / consoles specifically for this if you do game. Otherwise, for being a laptop, you can't really go wrong with the new M1 chip Macs.
Do you not need windows functionality for excel/modeling?
Run it through bootcamp.
You have your work laptop for that.
For being a personal laptop, the Mac does everything wonderfully -- amazing performance and out of this world battery life.
And it's not like you can't run Office on a Mac (there's a native Mac version), in fact it'd probably handle your calculations faster than a Windows laptop. Only thing you lose are your alt key shortcuts, which granted is annoying but who really cares if all you need it for, as a personal laptop, is a personal finance spreadsheet that you update once a month or something along those lines?
Ditto. You can even go for the new M1 MacBook Air if you want to save a few hundred dollars and shave only a hair of performance. There are some good YouTube videos comparing the two. Also, if you’re a student (or have someone that can buy for you that is a student), you can get $100 off at the Apple store.
I received one of the new M1 laptops for Christmas and they’re really nice.
Personally a fan of the X1 Carbon.
Yeah, I think that the best variant is the MacBook. You can buy Air for example.
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