Trompie67
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So my daughter starts varsity next month & she's going to need a laptop.
I know fokkol about laptops, and she knows less than.... She currently has a desktop to game with & do whatever work needs to be done.
I have an HPProbook 450 G8 for work. i5 1135G & 8GB RAM with a 256GB NVMe. It works OK, is sometimes a bit slow when working on discounted cash flows (I reckon more RAM would cure the problem as I can run the same DCF on my desktop which has a 10th gen i5 & 16GB RAM & it is much quicker). The fact that it is enterprise managed by some cnuts called VOX makes me hate it, but that's not the fault of the laptop
My son also has a Probook for work, but his is highly specced 12th gen i9 with 128GB RAM to cope with his renders & drawings, and he's been pretty happy with it except for the fact that being so thin it tends to thermal throttle when the workload gets high.
She likes the size of the display (15'6 inch) & the fact that it is relatively thin & not bulky.
So I'm thinking something along the same lines, but probably prefer 16GB RAM & a larger NVMe - 512GB or 1TB. 4 hour or more battery life would be good.
Suggestions? Ideas? What to look out for? What to avoid?
Thanks In Advance!
I know fokkol about laptops, and she knows less than.... She currently has a desktop to game with & do whatever work needs to be done.
I have an HPProbook 450 G8 for work. i5 1135G & 8GB RAM with a 256GB NVMe. It works OK, is sometimes a bit slow when working on discounted cash flows (I reckon more RAM would cure the problem as I can run the same DCF on my desktop which has a 10th gen i5 & 16GB RAM & it is much quicker). The fact that it is enterprise managed by some cnuts called VOX makes me hate it, but that's not the fault of the laptop
My son also has a Probook for work, but his is highly specced 12th gen i9 with 128GB RAM to cope with his renders & drawings, and he's been pretty happy with it except for the fact that being so thin it tends to thermal throttle when the workload gets high.
She likes the size of the display (15'6 inch) & the fact that it is relatively thin & not bulky.
So I'm thinking something along the same lines, but probably prefer 16GB RAM & a larger NVMe - 512GB or 1TB. 4 hour or more battery life would be good.
Suggestions? Ideas? What to look out for? What to avoid?
Thanks In Advance!