Best Laptop for 2025

Looking for recommendations on a new laptop, what does everyone like? This would be a second or third string work option for me during occasions on travel when I need to actually do real work beyond PDFs / email, which means it really just needs to run Bloomberg + excel (and API add in) flawlessly. I'm ok paying up for performance to minimize time spent troubleshooting / trying to get things to work. 

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If it's for personal use, you can't beat a Macbook Pro, but if you're going to work on it like you said, get a Lenovo. X1 Carbon is a solid choice. 

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I've had a Lenovo Yoga before and it was ok, but currently have a Lenovo Legion which is a gaming laptop and like it better. It is heavier, but I typically run a ton of different windows and programs on a 47in screen so need a powerful computer. 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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The only difference between Asset Management and Investment Research is assets. I generally see somebody I know on TV on Bloomberg/CNBC etc. once or twice a week. This sounds cool, until I remind myself that I see somebody I know on ESPN five days a week.

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