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The boss has opened up the budget of a max of $1400 to purchase a new laptop. The user is a heavy on Microsoft Office(multiple docs open), File Storage(vids, pics, etc), VPN and projecting during meetings. I haven’t purchased any new laptops myself in over a year and I know a lot has changed since then.

What are some good recommendations for laptops? What are some of you guys/girls buying for your head honchos these days?

@HP @Dell_Technologies @Samsung_USA

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Latitude E4420

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Im a lenovo fan, check out there thinkpad t series, w’s are nice but idk if it will fit in the budget

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We are using Lenovo laptops (currently T series). They are full size 15.6" around 5-6lbs. I am looking into ordering some X series Lenovo’s (smaller lighter). They have been solid on resources and long battery life. We have had very little if any issues with hardware wise. All of our Lenovo’s have been very sturdy.

Best of luck!

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Keenan, I would recommend a Lenovo to be a top-notch laptop for your boss’s business use.

Lenovo ThinkPad W520 4276 - 15.6" - Core i7 2760QM - Windows 7 Professional.

You cannot go wrong with the laptop since it has an Intel i7 processor, a good sized screen and great reviews.
Also the price is approx $1,300 which fits the budget.

Technical Specifications can be found from this URL:
http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=37&Code=W530_BASE_SAP&category_id=8290D97BCD4869FF73A91D590D8749C5

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I am with Both here but the Latitude E4420 will do that no problems.

The big key things here are:

NAME BRAND - Dont go for some cheap chinese crap you never heard of, go for Toshiba, IBM, Dell and so on.

Video Card & RAM … DONT SKIMP ON EITHER!!! (and avoid the Intel HD Video chipsets!); Nvidia is your best bet.

Min 500Gig HDD (or a solid state drive)

Intel i5 OR ABOVE … dont touch anything from i3 or below and dont use AMD’s, they are good but intel are better IMHO.

just my thoughts, for that budget you should find something more than good enough

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I would recommend Lenovo machines as well. I am definitely a fan of the W520, and have one myself, but a lot of execs, if they do a lot of flying, or anything, like something smaller. Lenovo has some very nice thin and light ones, which may be a good fit.

EDIT: the thin and lights are the X series.

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in contrast i woudl recommend the hp elite books with the amd apu(a8) we have 3 of them here for executives and they love them…heck i loved them …they never choke no matter how much we throw at them …and they have great video capabilities

usb3

great webcams

order them with a a mid sized ssd and you have screaming fast laptop at a decent price(at least we did) that will more than meet your needs

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i do agree though if your going Intel accept no less than an ivy bridge i 5 and an ssd those Intel controllers are quite snappy when paired with a nice ssd

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If you liked my reply about the laptop recommendation, please SPICE ME UP !!! I could use the level boost. Thanks.

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Spicing people posts up does not increase a user’s spicepoints.

[statement retracted] Thanks.

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Unless you want to spend close to $1000 for an SSD (Solid State Drive) of 500 gigabytes, I would recommend sticking with a SATA hard drive. As described in the original topic, this is meant to be a work pc…NOT an entertainment center that requires blazing fast speeds. A smaller SSD might be more reasonable but the boss might complain that he filled up the hard drive space. No reason to open that can of worms.

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@Tims777 & @spike7 Thanks for the suggestions, I’ve learned a lot from the reviews of the W series. It says the weight is about 5 pounds which is good since she carries her laptop with her where ever she goes. She wants a Macbook Pro but I know better than to throw one of those a busy life long Windows OS user.

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For what it’s worth, the Sandy Bridge series of i7s (that are used in the W520, etc.) are the same as what are used in Macbook Pro’s, when I checked a bit ago. :slight_smile:

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@spike7 She’s a Windows OS user since the Windows 95 days and she is an avid multitasker so me purchasing her a Macbook Pro would be the initial easy route to go but I after a few weeks and a few headaches on my end I’m sure I will end up purchasing her another windows laptop of some sort with a lower budget that time around.

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If you can wait until after the 26th to finalize it, get one of the new, really sharp looking Win8 laptops and reinstall with Win7 (if necessary). That way your boss will get the shiny, and you won’t have to deal with having a Mac in your current network.

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ASUS is Rock solid.

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Samsung Series 9 http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/laptops/NP900X3A-A03US

FTW!

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For those of you who went to Spiceworld - we had the samsung series 9 running W8 and were demo’ing it! :slight_smile:

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No Blue Screens of Death? (Evil chuckle)

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