Laptop Rec

I need to buy a new laptop for presentations on the go. I’m looking for something ultra thin / light with a big screen, preferably 17-18". Needs to have good specs and run fast, not lag out opening big excel files, etc. I am not that price sensitive.

The one twist is it needs to have a 500GB solid state HD otherwise my dropbox will not fit on the laptop.

Recs?

That’s a lot of porn.

17-18" and light??? You’re dreaming. My recommendation is Surface Pro 3.

Yea this is mutually exclusive. You may want to consider a portable external monitor as there are some good ones on the market, but i don’t think you’ll even get 17 that way.

Get something with an i7 at at least 6B RAM. Surface Pro may be ideal, but depends on how you like Win8.

Pfft. Everyone does presentations on their watches now. Get with the times man.

Where’s Blake when you need him…

Theres a Surface Pro 3 version with core i7, 512gb ssd, 8gb RAM, 12" screen. $1,949. I myself have a surface pro 2, core i5, 256gb ssd, 8gb RAM, was $1,300…$1,500 after tax and including the type cover. Pretty happy with it…considering surface pro 3…or maybe the pro 4 when it likely comes out next year.

MSI GS70 Stealth. Not sure if you can get it with a 500GB SSD though, I believe it comes with a 128GB SSD and 1TB HDD

I assume you want to do presentations on the screen itself and not a second screen or projector? Otherwise, it would make sense to get a smaller and more portable computer. Anyway, if this is the case, perhaps it would be worth investing in a computer model that is “business presentable” in addition to suiting your technical needs. If it were me, I would get an Alienware 19 or something, spec it out to $5000, and wheel it into the meeting in carry on luggage bag…

For some reason a lot of people are like, “I’m a multi-billion dollar fund of funds and don’t have a projector”. It’s clearly preferable on a projector though. Wheeling my own pc in would be badass, that sounds like a winning idea.

This sounds like a good one, thank you

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=compact%20projector&sprefix=compact+pro%2Celectronics

Those are less than I would have guessed, good call.

That top picture brings back memories of middle school, holy crap

those see thru slides were high tech back then

Middle school? They were still using those in university for me.

We had this econ prof that created his own animations on the overhead projector. One example, he’d draw the X & Y axis and the demand curve on the projector, and then have a transparency with the supply curve on it. It still haunts me in my dreams.

“Now watch as the supply curve shifts to the right [slides the transparency to the right].”

Worst class ever. Thanks for the flashback.

Wow! I seem to remember full-sized projectors being at least $1,000 not that long ago.

Jeesh. We’re just a lowly valuation firm and even we have a 70" LED TV that you can connect to, surround sound too.