PC Recommendations for Financial Modeling

To your last question: Mac = Fintech PC = IB There is no alternative

Mac Office 2016 is a vast improvement over previous versions, but there's still no alt key so it's not that great.

I hear the Dell XPS 13 is the best PC by a wide margin. Just make sure that there's dedicated F keys and pg up/down/delete keys because more and more laptops are merging the two.

Are you looking for a laptop or desktop?

I also have a mac and am considering a new pc for similar reasons What if I run bootcamp with a windows keyboard? Does that make it workable? Never used bootcamp though so no idea about how it performs compared to a dedicated pc

If you are looking for a laptop, you can't go wrong with the Dell XPS 13 line. I have the kaby lake version and I have minimal complaints after 3 months or so of usage.

Honestly most PCs within your price range (also those significantly under your budget's cap) will let you model to your heart's content.

Any PC built in the past 5 years will work. It's not like working in Excel requires large amounts of processing power... I'm sure you could literally walk to your local public library, jump on a comp with excel and model your heart away.

Anything with an i7-quad core and 16GB+ of RAM is more than enough. All other features are a nice to have assuming you have a fully functional keyboard and a gaming mouse. Costco.com has some great deals on HP Envy laptops.

Lenovos are also very common PCs throughout the business world - Thinkpads (X1 Carbon, T series, etc.) are standard issue at many shops.

Thank you all.

As long as you have a solid state drive and enough ram (16 GB preferred) then you will be fine.