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

[Irving]

It's time to get a new laptop. I don't know enough about computers to shop for myself, so I'm once again appealing to the hive mind. Please help me out.

- I'm done buying used computers. They do okay, but don't last long before they start slowing down.
- I currently have a Lenovo Thinkpad W520. It's fine for everything I do, but when I use Xactimate it slows down so much that I'm probably losing an hour or more a day in lag time.
Here are the system requirements for what I need to run. Probably isn't that much, but the rest of my computer about shuts down when I'm running it: https://www.xactware.com/en-us/solut...-requirements/
- EDIT: Battery life! My laptop now only lasts about an hour, definitely under two, while it is running off of the battery. If I can get something that'd give me four hours I'd be happy, six or more and I'd be ecstatic.
- I carry this out in the field with me so it needs to be durable, and if possible I'd like it to be reasonably light.
- I want a 10-key.
- Not interested in a Mac.
- I'm only conceptually interested in Linux. I'm not sure if most of my stuff will run on Linux, and even if it can, I quite literally do not have the time to find out how to do it.
- I hesitate to even put cost on the list. I want something great, but I don't want to pay a million dollars only to have it run like garbage in two years. If I'm going to spend the money, I'd like something that has some longevity to it. I'm only referring to usability. I care zero about having the latest-greatest-as soon as it comes out. I just want it to work well for as long as I can.

Please help me out with some options of what I should look at. Thank you.

[thedave1164]

Dell Outlet, get a Latitude with Intel i5, 8gb ram and SSD, 15" should get you 10 key.

Get the 3 year warranty and accident coverage

You might have to go to a Precision Mobile Workstation in order to get a discrete video card

[Irving]

Dell Outlet, get a Latitude with Intel i5, 8gb ram and SSD, 15" should get you 10 key.

Get the 3 year warranty and accident coverage

You might have to go to a Precision Mobile Workstation in order to get a discrete video card

I want to say that I heard the Intel processors eat up battery life, but I'm not sure. Have you heard anything like that?

[thedave1164]

I want to say that I heard the Intel processors eat up battery life, but I'm not sure. Have you heard anything like that?

Nope, as long as you stick with the mobile processors you are good to go, some of the speciality gamer laptops use desktop processors which do eat up the watts

[CoGirl303]

keep buying Microshit Winblows based garbage pc's and you'll keep getting junk that slows down and has issues.


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[davsel]

keep buying Microshit Winblows based garbage pc's and you'll keep getting junk that slows down and has issues.


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This, coming from one who struggles to connect a TV to an AV receiver.

[CoGirl303]

This, coming from one who struggles to connect a TV to an AV receiver.

Apples to oranges. I know more about computers than I do about home audio/video and I knew next to nothing about older receivers not being compatible with newer tv's.

My 27" iMac has been going strong for 7 years. The only issue it has given me was the hard drive failing a year and a half ago. My 2012 macbook pro is 6 years old and still in mint condition working great.

I've never had any issues with updating, no grey screens of death, no component failure, no slowing down.


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[davsel]

Apples to oranges. I know more about computers than I do about home audio/video and I knew next to nothing about older receivers not being compatible with newer tv's.

My 27" iMac has been going strong for 7 years. The only issue it has given me was the hard drive failing a year and a half ago. My 2012 macbook pro is 6 years old and still in mint condition working great.

I've never had any issues with updating, no grey screens of death, no component failure, no slowing down.


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Apples to Apples when considering general lack of subject knowledge.

The OP said he needs to run Xactimate and provided a link to the requirements of said software.
First sentence of second paragraph in link states:

Xactimate and other Xactware products are not supported on Mac Operating Systems

Had you bothered to educate yourself on what the OP needed before spitting out your comment, you may have considered otherwise.

[CoGirl303]

Apples to Apples when considering general lack of subject knowledge.

Had you bothered to...blah...blah...blah

I know what the OP said.

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.


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[Irving]

I think maybe I should be looking for gaming or video edit specs. I don't do either, but it sounds like that is the level of robust I'm looking for.