Best laptop for financial modeling- PE/IB
Hey everyone,
I'm an incoming freshman at the University of Arkansas (Walton College) pursuing a degree in finance and accounting with a long-term goal of private equity. I'll be doing heavy financial modeling from day one — already enrolled in a modeling course and joining the school's M&A club.
Looking for a laptop with a budget of ~$2,000. I'm willing to pay up for performance. I'll be using it heavily for Excel and financial modeling, and I want it to last me through grad school and possibly beyond.
Any input is helpful, thanks.
Thinkpad. Buy a big monitor and just use it that way, modeling on the laptop itself sucks
Agree with thinkpad. T14 or X1 carbon would be my recommendation. 16GB ram should be plenty unless you’re dealing with large customer cubes which you won’t be until you are actually on the job
For “heavy financial modeling” sounds retarded. The average, and even complex financial models can run on a $300 chrome book. If it can’t you should learn how to optimize. Heavy data load is the only reason you would need some RAM and compute to not make it miserable. Customer cube is good example as other guy mentioned.
Get a nice laptop for other reasons. Streaming, ability to have a large amount of tabs open, heavy data load, simulations, AI, gaming, video editing etc.
Would pay up to future proof it, but not so it can handle excel financial models.
Ive been using my lenovo yoga for a year now and absolutely love it. Very fast and zero issues.
thinkpad x1 carbon, hp elitebook or dragonfly, dell xps 15, get the 15-16 inch models. also, kudos to grinding, love to see it
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