Hi - I am in the market for a new laptop. I need to have it in my hands before the end of the week. So I'm hoping to get it chosen and ordered todayish.
What brands can be trusted these days? It used to be IBM, but is Lenovo still OK? What about Samsung? Acer? Dell? etc.
As for what I want - I have been using an 13" Apple Air (company issued) and I really like the form factor. I do not want another Apple laptop, but that size seems to work nicely for me. I do not need an optical drive. I think an SSD makes a lot of sense for me as I travel a ton (and thus I think I'm hard on hard drives with lots of shaking). I will want to run Windows 7 (or maybe 8) on the device.
I don't have high end computing needs - I don't play video games. I occasionally do some very CPU heavy electronic circuit simulation so for that it'd be nice to have lots of RAM and a fast CPU, but that is not super important. Battery life is important though - 5 hours would be nice.
Budget is $1K, but I'd be happy if I could spend less.
Any suggestions for makes and/or models of laptops to be looking at?
What brands can be trusted these days? It used to be IBM, but is Lenovo still OK? What about Samsung? Acer? Dell? etc.
As for what I want - I have been using an 13" Apple Air (company issued) and I really like the form factor. I do not want another Apple laptop, but that size seems to work nicely for me. I do not need an optical drive. I think an SSD makes a lot of sense for me as I travel a ton (and thus I think I'm hard on hard drives with lots of shaking). I will want to run Windows 7 (or maybe 8) on the device.
I don't have high end computing needs - I don't play video games. I occasionally do some very CPU heavy electronic circuit simulation so for that it'd be nice to have lots of RAM and a fast CPU, but that is not super important. Battery life is important though - 5 hours would be nice.
Budget is $1K, but I'd be happy if I could spend less.
Any suggestions for makes and/or models of laptops to be looking at?
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