Hey all,
I need a new laptop for working from home/gaming/porn. You know the usual. There are some really good black Friday sales so I'm going to pull the trigger this week.
What brands are reliable, or subbrands. I know the Dell subbrand I last got was shit.
What specs do I need? Is a SSD with 8GB of DDR4, with an 8th Gen i5 with 6 MB cache and an intel i5 going to cut it?
Ideally I'm looking for something around $1000(with the current sales around $500-$700). It has to have a built in number pad and be 15"-17"
This is one I'm currently looking a
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-l/ThinkPad-L580/p/20LW000MUS
Beware the Black Friday derivative discount product. Laptops and TVs are the worst!
If a SKU pops up before Black Friday to be sold at 1 retailer (a simple google search will confirm this), you've found the derivative. Avoid it like HIV.
Ideally, if I bought on Lenovo.com I would not have this issue?
I wish I knew. I can spot them at big box stores fairly easily. Unsure if it's the same directly from the supplier.
Here is a derivative. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/dell-inspiron-15-6-touch-screen-laptop-int…
Popped up on BBY 2 weeks ago in anticipation of the Black Friday Sale and only sold at BBY.
If I may, I'd suggest an i7 and 16 gb of RAM. I have an i5 with 8 gb of RAM and it's ok for basic stuff. I could see it struggling if I were to try and play a game.
16 GB RAM. Lenovo or MBP. Done.
Appreciate the feedback. As I run excel, that narrows it down to Lenovo.
One annoying thing is Lenovo keyboards start with the Fn key, then Ctrl on the bottom left. It screws with you when doing Excel shortcuts
tbh the newer Microsoft laptops are great
Only look at professional laptops - Microsoft Surface, Apple, Dell XPS, certain Thinkpads (only X/T series, other series are crap made to profit off the Thinkpad name)
If you can afford it you buy a separate work laptop and then a gaming/general browsing laptop. You can find a decent AMD APU powered laptop for gaming at a pricer lower than an intel laptop that can be used for both work and play.
Lenovo is infamous for bloatware/spyware.
I strongly recommend a desktop if you work from home regularly. In my experience Bloomberg + FactSet + M* Direct + a dozen chrome tabs and excel iterations will bring any laptop to a crawl.
For mobility I've got the base Surface Pro 6 which is going for $800 with the needed type cover (The 7's better with a USB-C port now) 8GB of ram is enough if you actively manage your productivity programs (one Excel window and one data program at a time) and a half TB micro-SD card mitigates the puny 128GB of onboard storage.
Doubt you'd be using your personal computer to work from home
Unfortunately that is the case.
it depends...I've got a second log-in profile in FactSet, and M* is just tied to my work email, plus Bloomberg just requires your B-Unit. I'll remote in for email and Excel, and the rest are already sandboxed, so I'm safe.
All I really need the laptop for is to run 12-24 chrome tabs and anywhere from 5-10 excel models at the same time.
I don’t really have time to game, but wouldn’t mind getting the new Microsoft flight simulator.
Easy. New razer blade stealth. New 10th gen processors and 16gb ram. If you need the graphics, get the razer core X and plug in an rtx 2060. You’ll get gaming when you need it and much better battery life than any dedicated gaming laptop. Good portability, good look that doesn’t scream gamer, perfect balance.
Anyone heard about the Legion laptop from Lenovo. It seems you get more bang for your buck. with a 9th gen i5 or 9th gen i7 for under a grand.
My bank does not give out laptops to its employees. Would I be ok getting a Dell XPS 15? Or would something from Lenovo be better? I don't want to pay ~$2K for a laptop that I have no idea how long I'm going to use for.
I'm mainly going to use it for work honestly as I already have a 2014 MacBook Air that works fine for recreational use, unless there really is a reason to get something better for work and play that is not ~$2K
Bump, just wanted to see what everyone thought. What about the Surface Laptop 3?
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