Laptop Recommendations

[DFSNOLE]

Our daughter's graduation ceremony for her Masters degree is in December. We're planning on giving her a new laptop. She's a behavioural analyst and will be writing a lot of reports requiring a lot of graphs.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

Before you ask, no.

 

[62Nole]

Party pooper.

 

[TallyNole93]

Lenovo seems popular. Whatever you get, load it with RAM. 8GB or better. May not need it all but one of the cheapest ways to increase preformance. RAM and a SSD hard drive.

 

[OrlandNole]

How much are you looking to spend? Is portability important? Does she want a 2 in 1/touchscreen? In Windows laptops, the most reputable brands are Lenovo and Asus. Some Dell and HP laptops are also highly rated, but only in the high-end ($1,500+) models.

I'm looking at these two for my wife's birthday:

https://www.costco.com/ASUS-ZenBook...VIDIA-Graphics--1080p-.product.100375043.html

https://www.costco.com/ASUS-Zenbook...Intel-Core-i5---1080p-.product.100362785.html

 

[TallyNole93]

Was thinking. Working with graphs, may also want a good sized screen.

 

[OrlandNole]

How much are you looking to spend? Is portability important? Does she want a 2 in 1/touchscreen? In Windows laptops, the most reputable brands are Lenovo and Asus. Some Dell and HP laptops are also highly rated, but only in the high-end ($1,500+) models.

I'm looking at these two for my wife's birthday:

https://www.costco.com/ASUS-ZenBook...VIDIA-Graphics--1080p-.product.100375043.html

https://www.costco.com/ASUS-Zenbook...Intel-Core-i5---1080p-.product.100362785.html

Oh, and since I'm sure you'll ask > pics.

 

[DFSNOLE]

How much are you looking to spend? Is portability important? Does she want a 2 in 1/touchscreen? In Windows laptops, the most reputable brands are Lenovo and Asus. Some Dell and HP laptops are also highly rated, but only in the high-end ($1,500+) models.

I'm looking at these two for my wife's birthday:

https://www.costco.com/ASUS-ZenBook...VIDIA-Graphics--1080p-.product.100375043.html

https://www.costco.com/ASUS-Zenbook...Intel-Core-i5---1080p-.product.100362785.html

Looking at some around $1k. She needs the numerical keyboard and it seems all of the models with those are at least 15". That's larger than she wants but she understands that might be a necessity.

 

[fsu1jreed]

Best Laptop I've ever owned.

TOSHIBA Satellite Fusion 2 in 1

Intel Core i5-5200U (2.20 GHz) 8 GB Memory 128 GB SSD Intel HD Graphics 5500 Shared memory 15.6" Touchscreen Windows 10 Home 64-Bit

 

[FSUTribe76]

My wife and I really love our Lenovo Yoga 910s. New you can get them a little over a grand, factory refurb third party reseller you can get them for $800-900 on eBay, and from slightly grayer first party resellers (aka likely stolen ones on eBay) you’re only looking at about $600 just make sure it’s from a seller with over a thousand likes or so.

 

[Finance85]

I've got a high end HP, with solid state drive, etc. I have 5 USB ports, a VGA port, and ethernet port. Strangely enough, no HDMI port, but I have a full size Video Display port. Getting an adapter for full size Video Display to HDMI was a chore. Mini to HDMI would have been no problem.

It doesn't seem to play nicely with Windows 10. Every time I get a new Windows 10 update I have to manually restart multiple times. I also have had issues with HP security (separate from Windows 10).

Previously I've had decent success with Dell and Lenovo. I'll probably go back to one of those when it's time for a new laptop.

 

[NoleLizards]

Oh, and since I'm sure you'll ask > pics.