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My CEO came to me and requested I give him three laptop recommendations. He stated he will only use the laptop once in a while when he is away from his desktop. He prefers using a desktop but wants a laptop.

The primary use of his laptop will be for taking Notes, answering emails and anything else a CEO might be doing out of the office. I’m looking for a light weight device but powerful. Not too flimsy. My CEO doesn’t care for super advanced computers. He just wants something to get the job done but I don’t want to hand him a potato.

My eye is on the Dell XPS 13 but I need more to show him. The final decision is up to him.

Thanks in advance.

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I’d show him a similar spec’ed model HP (Elitebook etc) and Lenovo and see which he prefers.

Stick to the IT business trinity and he’d end up with a decent laptop.

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Focus on ergonomics and ease of use. Since he prefers a desktop just give him a solution he can use to remote into his machine at work.

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etch a sketch ?

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I like the HP zBooks and Dell Latitudes

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He sounds like a Latitude guy to me, throw an SSD in it and the performance should be fine. Is a 13" screen going to be big enough? I usually go with Carbon’s for fussy or problematic executives, but he doesn’t sound that way. Did he give you a budget?

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I’m currently looking at the Latitudes. I don’t think 13" will be a problem because before he asked me to find him a laptop he asked If a tablet or laptop is better. If he was going to settle for a simple tablet I don’t think he’s worried about screen size.

He didn’t say a budget. He doesn’t mind cost but of course nothing extreme. Voodoo Envy H171 anyone? xD

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Or you buy him an overly expensive super gaming rig, the workstation he wants, and something to give to a user.

Win, Win, Win.

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The Dell XPS 13 is good. Here are my personal suggestions that I’ve given to executive staff;

HP Elite x2 1012 http://store.hp.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ContentView?storeId=10151&langId=-1&catalogId=10051&eSpotName=EliteX2_1012&jumpid=cp_r11260_us/en/pc_comm/detachables/shopetr-elitex2-1012

HP Elitebook 1020 Folio http://store.hp.com/us/en/mdp/business-solutions/elitebook-folio-12

HP Chromebook 13 http://store.hp.com/us/en/ContentView?storeId=10151&catalogId=10051&eSpotName=chromebook13

All meets the requirements here and looks/feels like an executive-grade machine.

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I used to buy HP for personal use. My employers have all been Dell shops. and for some reason we picked up a couple of Lenovo Yogas recently.

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/yoga/900-series/yoga-910/

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I gave the CEO a really nice light weight Dell. Only about 12 inch screen, but it was the weight that really did it for him. He could slip it in a travel bag, so no extra weight.

He soon accepted that he didn’t need the desktop; and with a docking station, plus multiple monitors, he was pretty sold on the whole set-up.

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Best setup for a ceo is a lenovo carbon x1 with mobile chip hands down

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What about a new iPad? Stop laughing, no I’m serious!

Its light, easy to use, and you can get most of what he needs working through a email, for the rest use something like dropbox to store the files and Office365 to edit them.

If you look closer at it, its easy to get extra chargers for it, its at least half the weight of an equivalent laptop, and in reality how much typing is he actually going to do on it …

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consider a very portable device, like an iPad (mini) - or a Surface Book - it runs proper Windows 10

both options can do probably all the stuff CEO has to do (spreadsheets, mails, web, conference video calls)

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Sers,

I can second the Surface Book. Very nice device. Then again, I am a fan of the 3:2 displays in the Surface series.

If not a the MS product, we’ve been using Dell Latitude 14" 7000s for our CxO/IT folks for 3 years now and I have yet to hear a hardware based complaint.

Grüße,

Philip

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Dell xps13 all the way,

I have supplied both Surface and XPS devices to managers and most of them always prefer the xps as they are super light and nice and compact

The Surface Pro \ Book are fine but can be a bit too fiddly for some users who just want a simple device that works when they want it.

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we gave all our execs surface pros.

they have pros and cons, but the portability and weight is unrivalled. would seriously recommend you check them out.

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Elitebook 1030. It is HP’s counter to the XPS 13.

@HP

@priscilla-hp

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I would recommend a Microsoft Surface. They are light-weight and great for sitting in meetings playing solitaire…I mean, taking notes. They can be pricey and the storage options are kind of small but they tend to work great.

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Surface Pros and Surface Books have been great for our C levels, outside of their “quirks”.

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I’d avoid Surfaces due to the “quirks”

Dell XPSs or Lenovo Carbons all the way.

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