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.
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.
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.
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.
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].”