mikey71497
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I work for one of the major MSOs in the country, and our IT department issues out Dell Laptops, typically running XP or Win7 depending on how old your machine is. The Dells they give out come with 4gb of memory and are really just low grade, crappy, sit in the office type laptops. My department will be asking IT if we can purchase another brand laptop with some horsepower. I heard the term, "desktop grade laptop." The laptop would need to have at least a 15" screen, would prefer larger, 8+gb of RAM and HDD space is not as crucial as all docs are stored mostly on the server. We don't need any type of high graphics card, or audio speakers. PCMCIA slot would be nice as we use these for serial adapters to console into devices. We use our laptops for Viso, SecureCRT, Excel, sharepoint, and other networking applications. My team is a team of Metro Ethernet Techs and we could at any time, have 12+ applications open at the same time. We also open and shut the lid numerous times a day. Our current machines bog down and choke. I currently have a Dell E6410 with 8gb of RAM and Win7 Pro. It's OK at best.
My ask is, what brand/model laptop would fit the needs listed above? We were thinking Lenovo or HP. Anything else you can think of? Our IT guys love Dell because we get a discount for buying so many, but we are constantly having to fix our machines.
Any help would be appreciated.
My ask is, what brand/model laptop would fit the needs listed above? We were thinking Lenovo or HP. Anything else you can think of? Our IT guys love Dell because we get a discount for buying so many, but we are constantly having to fix our machines.
Any help would be appreciated.