Laptop Reccomendations?
I will be a freshman Finance student and was looking for some laptop recs. Do I need or would it help to have a 10 key built into the laptop? Thanks!
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Dell XPS or HP Spectre. Go for Asus if you want cheaper. Please don't get a Mac - you'll waste money on something needlessly expensive.
http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/11/2/13497094/best-macbook-…
Do you think a 10 key built into the laptop is necessary/helpful?
it is unnecessary and unhelpful.....
Mac's are genuine shit for what you pay
I have a MacBook Pro that I got a few years ago before the recent massive price hike. This will be the last one that I get. Windows-based laptops have long since caught up on design and are just a better value.
I quite like the HP Elitebook, that is what I have been given in my new position, heavy but solid.
Buying a new laptop - help (Originally Posted: 01/21/2018)
Currently I have a Mac that I have had for 6 years, no problems with it thankfully other than it is getting slow and I don't have the ram capabilities to model efficiently. I am looking to buy a new laptop and am currently messing around with the idea of a few different models. Think I need to get away from the Mac for microsoft capabilities. Looking at Lenovo X1 Carbon, Lenovo X1 Yoga, Microsoft Surface book 2 & Dell XPS 15. I have went through the forums and know that I need at least 16 GB ram and 512 GB SSD, but have any of you all had any experience with these models? Any insight is helpful. Beyond that, I figure I will tell you what I plan to do with it. Some financial modeling, some stock research, some academic research with Stata and bigger excel files, and selfishly a little online streaming.
Which model would you go with, what recommendations would you have for configurations and why?
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Thanks for your help. I will check it out, especially on the timeline of release for the X1C6
Try the below link. I just got one myself and so far so good - MS Office works fantastically. And if you are using it for work purposes only, that should be sufficient. You can increase the RAM and SSD as needed.
https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Aspire-i5-8250U-GeForce-E5-576G-5762/dp/B07…
Not to add to your options list but I would highly recommend you look at ASUS options. Quality machines where you definitely get what you pay for, and have the performance you're looking for
Asus Zenbook
Laptop strictly for excel/word (Originally Posted: 07/13/2015)
Right now I'm looking for a cheap laptop for my senior year specific to run excel/word. I probably won't be dealing with any massive workbooks, and will be saving most of the stuff to an external drive. Anyone have any insight if a laptop like this could run workbooks with moderate VBA functionality (pulling ticker data from yahoo finance api)? Again, pretty much only use this for emergency modeling when my school computers shit the bed/don't feel like mankind the trek to the library. WSO won't let me post the link but if you go to best buy search sku 3953761.
"best buy .com/site/asus-11-6-laptop-intel-atom-2gb-memory-32gb-flash-storage-blue/3953761.p?id=1219610986272&skuId=3953761"
The Intel Atom + 32 GB SSD laptops don't get any cheaper than $169.99 and should be good enough for your purposes. The only way you could go cheaper is if you were to get a Windows 8.1 tablet with a keyboard (like this: http://www.walmart.com/ip/43327107?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&…)
awesome thanks, ill probably stick with this one because I know some of those tablets don't allow you go into the VBE editor/use excel's full functionality.
I've got an HP Stream for that purpose. Sets you back mid 200's depending on where you get it.
Downsides: It's severely underpowered(it WILL freeze to catch up if you're streaming 1080p video), and the touchpad is shit.
Upsides: No fan design (so you're not that jackass who sounds like he brought a boxfan into class/work), Excel/Word work absolutely fine, touchscreen works very well esp. in Excel, and VERY long battery life over 5 hours.
It's amazing for Excel, Word, Outlook, and not good for much else.
nice good to know, thats the other one I've been looking at
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