What laptops would you recommend summer analysts purchase for their summer internships? I currently use a MacBook pro for school, but because of its lack of excel compatibility, I am looking to purchase one for my internship. I am looking for a good quality laptop that is fairly affordable.
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Dell XPS 15 is good
+1. the 2020 XPS 15 is gorgeous
I got the 9th gen intel gaming laptop. It’s like $500 cheaper than a Mac with the same specs.
They have a 3 year warranty which covers any and I mean ANY accidents or loss of the laptop where they’ll fly someone out to repair it replace it within 2 business for like $400.
Also does anyone has any thoughts on whether or not to buy a monitor or two in addition to a laptop?
100% worth getting at least one monitor.
Dell Inspiron 7000 is affordable and capable. 16g of RAM and SSD
Check out the thinkpads
No brainer. Razer.
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I don’t think we will be doing much work this summer especially if you aren’t getting a company issued laptop...
would a macbook + parallels suffice?? really don't want to drop a few hundred bucks on a mediocre pc i will only be using for 5 weeks..
I’d go bootcamp. you can get a windows key for like $20. get two monitors, windows keyboard, mouse, and you have a workstation for under 250. very worthwhile investment for long term
Won’t the banks we are working for give us a company laptop?
my bank asked interns to indicate what laptops we have at home without any mention of sending us company issued laptops,. so i am not positive we are gonna get anything from banks
Are banks not planning on using on Parallels/Citrix for the SAs? I'd highly doubt we can directly download stuff to our regular machines given we might be handling sensitive data so a Virtual Desktop would be the easiest solution? And the virtual desktop would surely be running a Windows OS interface.
I say this as a mac owner since that is what I assume will happen. If not probably will run Windows via bootcamp (my uni offers a free copy of windows) since I do not want to blow a few hundred bucks on a new laptop.
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