I need a work laptop (new). Help me out

I'm currently running XM 28, but thinking of switching to XM One or whatever their newest version is. Allows both on and offline work, which I couldn't do with XM 27 when I was corporate.

I don't need something as rugged as Ray would, I'm really just moving from house to vehicle to house to bathroom. I like the idea of SSD hard drive for sure. I'll look at those Dells tonight. I really appreciate the input so far. As far as budget, I don't want to say that I don't have one, but I was anticipating having to spend well over $500. If I don't have to, that's okay to.

Your W520 was pretty much a beast back in the day, and if you are willing to jack it up a bit and put a fresh load of windows on there, it may be able to perform with xactimate again. To replace it today, that class of computer (Mobile Workstations) generally start about $1300 or so and go up from there.

You could consider adding a lot of RAM, 16GB or more, and it looks like the 8GB sticks are about $63 ea for $126 to go to 16GB.
https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Singl...al+ddr3+sodimm

Then add an SSD to rejuvenate your storage. $125 for the 500GB, $75 for the 256GB, look at how much you are using now to estimate your needs.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0784SLQM6...ing=UTF8&psc=1

Then with a fresh load of Windows, you should be back to rocking and rolling again (for a top of the line 7 year old mobile workstation.)

I can help you with installing/the fresh windows load/moving your data and applications back if you need it.

Just another option for your consideration...

The below is an example base W520... if you give me your model number I can find the exact specs of yours.

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-John

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Originally Posted by Irving

I'm currently running XM 28, but thinking of switching to XM One or whatever their newest version is. Allows both on and offline work, which I couldn't do with XM 27 when I was corporate.

I don't need something as rugged as Ray would, I'm really just moving from house to vehicle to house to bathroom. I like the idea of SSD hard drive for sure. I'll look at those Dells tonight. I really appreciate the input so far. As far as budget, I don't want to say that I don't have one, but I was anticipating having to spend well over $500. If I don't have to, that's okay to.

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The good news is that if you decide to go CAT, all the majors will just give you the laptop they want you to work off of. If you are seriously considering XM One, may want to look at a laptop with a touch screen, or preferably a digitizer, so you can make use of the simplified touch mode. I hear good things. Should be accomplishable on a $500-700 budget. You still probably want 8 Gig of RAM at a minimum if you are going to use the offline side of the app more. Or perhaps go to a more tablet-based system with integrated 4GLTE and work thin-client all the time. Would take a load off the processor, at the expense of competing for bandwidth on the local cell tower. I don't like that, because we are always competing for bandwidth from that one remaining cell tower with the locals and all the other first responders. But if you aren't working CAT, it's probably a viable option.

I'm probably going to go the workstation route.

My current laptop works great, just not while I'm running Xact. I didn't know this laptop was as old as it is, and am pretty impressed that it runs as well as it does. For something that lasts that long, I'll be glad to pony up the scratch.

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Originally Posted by CoGirl303

I know what the OP said.

[emoji849] you can run bootcamp and do a dual os setup and run windows and mac os x or you can get VMWare Fusion and run Windows from a virtual environment and run Xactimate either way. [emoji41]


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You have obviously never attempted this with any CPU or graphics intensive software. Cute theory though.
Keep trying, you'll get there.

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Originally Posted by CoGirl303

I know what the OP said.

[emoji849] you can run bootcamp and do a dual os setup and run windows and mac os x or you can get VMWare Fusion and run Windows from a virtual environment and run Xactimate either way. [emoji41]


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Running OS > running program to run another OS to run another program (which is resource intensive) > running another OS > running program = an insane amount of tolerance stacking and resource usage.

While fun in a lab environment, not the most practical thing for what Irving needs.

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Originally Posted by CavSct1983

Running OS > running program to run another OS to run another program (which is resource intensive) > running another OS > running program = an insane amount of tolerance stacking and resource usage.

While fun in a lab environment, not the most practical thing for what Irving needs.

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Eyes on your own papers!
EVERYONE MUST DO THERE OWN WORK!!
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0764HW117...v_ov_lig_dp_it

here's what I'm looking into for the same requirements.

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Originally Posted by Wulf202

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0764HW117...v_ov_lig_dp_it

here's what I'm looking into for the same requirements.

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Let me know before you buy that.