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Vanity: Suggestions for a high-performance business laptop?
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Posted on 06/08/2016 6:19:23 AM PDT by freedumb2003

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To: wally_bert

I am a Dell or Lenovo guy. I’ve had so many laptops for work over the years and also at home I really couldn’t recommend any others for windows. Dell has some really nice 15.6 widescreens these days that have almost as much real estate as my old dell dual core 17” at about half the weight.

My personal laptop is an Ideapad Flex 14”. I just purchased a Flex 4 14” for my son with an i7 6th gen and a 256gb ssd for about $630. If I was going to go high end I would look at a YOGA with the 6th Gen i7 and a 500 gb a video card and as much ram as I could get. probably about $1400 if I took a guess. buy from Lenovo direct or the dell outlet. Dell Outlet get a refurb with the same warranty as a new one with a great discount. Usually they have been returned, fully recertified and are in better shape than new.


41 posted on 06/08/2016 7:20:06 PM PDT by Woodman
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To: freedumb2003
Have you looked at the Surface Book? The 512Gb version has a dedicated GPU in the base, so you can have the best of both worlds.

-PJ

42 posted on 06/08/2016 7:26:13 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: freedumb2003

It isn’t emulation — Macs run on the same Intel processors as Wintel boxes, and run Windows natively with the right drivers (which Apple and VMWare provide). There is a performance hit in using a virtual machine, but that’s because you’re running two operating systems at the same time.

One option not a lot of people have mentioned is Boot Camp, Apple’s software that allows you to partition the hard drive, install Windows, and boot straight into it. VMWare Fusion can use the Boot Camp partition to run a virtual machine, so you can use the same Windows installation both ways — side by side with Mac if you need the convenience, or Windows alone if you need the performance.

I work for an IT contractor, and the advantage of virtual machines for me is that I can have Win7 joined to one client’s active directory, and Win8.1 joined to another client’s, and switch between them seamlessly. I even have a WinXP machine, but I might archive it because I haven’t needed it for a while.

The great thing about virtual machines for a developer is that you can quickly switch between VMs for testing.


43 posted on 06/09/2016 3:24:24 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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Here ya go
44 posted on 06/09/2016 6:25:34 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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Here's another one
45 posted on 06/09/2016 6:30:32 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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Battery run time 2 hours. Not good if you are traveling with your laptop.


46 posted on 06/09/2016 8:49:59 AM PDT by w1andsodidwe (TRUMP. YES! Bye Bye hiLIARy.)
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Thanks, everyone!


47 posted on 06/09/2016 9:05:42 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Don't mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness)
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Highly recommend...

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-9350-laptop/pd


48 posted on 06/10/2016 5:22:45 AM PDT by rsflynn (Life is hard....twice as hard if you are stupid -- John Wayne)
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