Good Summer Analyst Laptop
Hi all
Looking for a good laptop to see me through the Summer and my final year of Study.
My current one is battered and rather slow, I’d rather avoid being the intern who’s excel crashes every 10 minutes.
$700 is probably my max budget. Wont need anything crazy.
Any recommendations?
What bank requires interns to bring their own laptop?
I bought the HP Envy 13 and have been very happy with it. Have only used it for models / presentations in school though, so not sure how well it holds up with multiple large models / slide decks open at the same time.
Citi
You're going to be in office during internship ngl so you wont need a laptop... They might even give you one and if not then you'll be accessing a virtual PC, so your own laptop's performance is irrelevant. I'd just wait till you can spend a bit more on the laptop, would be better value in the end.
If you really insist on now then I'd grab a HP Envy or Lenovo Yoga or something. Anything with 16gb RAM, i5 11th Gen or higher/AMD Ryzen 5 5000 series or higher will do.
Ehhhh sometimes you get hit with quick comments on Saturday/Sunday. Would be a pain in the ass to have to go in office just for that… I would recommend OP just to spend a few hundred more for something better. No point of spending 700 on something mediocre when you could had spend 400 more on something ideal that will last you longer.
Yeah that's kinda why I mentioned the virtual PC, can still login from home, performance of the physical unit doesn't matter too much as long as it has some RAM available.
Although maybe some banks don't do this (or give interns a laptop) idk.
This is what I was hoping for to be fair. Even at university I just log on to the desktops so I barely use my laptop now really.
I'm living 15 minutes from the office so I'd hope to be in there each day use the dedicated PC. I guess in that case It would just be useful for when I travel home to see my family the one or two times over the summer or if I had to work from home for emergencies etc which makes doesn't make it an attractive purchase for just 10 weeks.
Although I am working on a placement now with a company laptop and being able to take my workings / excel sheets into meetings is extremely useful - this wouldn't be possible with a desktop PC?
Obviously you can't take a desktop PC around with you.
My point is that regardless of what laptop you have, many banks use a virtual PC to access internal network. You login to Citrix or whatever and all your physical laptop has to do is keep that virtual PC application running which takes hardly any resources. The actual PC is in a server god knows where. So whether it's a $200 or $10000 laptop won't make a lick of difference. Idk if the bank you're joining uses virtual PCs but many do.
If the bank does use virtual PCs then obviously if you were to take your laptop into the office to look at sheets in meetings or whatever, you're still going to need to use the vPC application.
I would check with HR how the bank does remote access (or ask them if a laptop will be provided) and go from there.
Also please don't listen to that guy telling you to buy a 4 year old ThinkPad.
He said for his final year of study also.
reddit.com/r/thinkpadsforsale
get a thinkpad with 8th Gen Intel CPU
256 GB sad or greater & 16 GB of ram
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