I'm looking for some advice from others who've bought a new laptop or ultrabook recently.
I'm getting sick of the heavy brick laptops that I've had over the years, so I'm starting to think an ultrabook is the way forward. I was originally keen on a convertible but the mechanisms used to flip the screen into table mode still seem to be in their infancy. I think I'll wait for that to settle down a bit.
I'm an architect so my usage is mainly MS Outlook, Word, Excel and a quite a bit of Visio. Screen can't be too small as I need to view a detailed diagram all on one page. Being able to fire up a VM occasionally is important too. I attend a lot of meetings and I take my laptop into most of them. I do plug into a projector quite a lot too, most of which are the VGA kind.
Priorities are lightweight, powerful and small enough that I can open it on a train. I currently have a 15" laptop screen that I can't open fully when sitting airline on a train. I reckon 14" would work, 13" at a push. Must be robust and powerful (i7 CPU and 8GB RAM ideally). VGA ports are not common on ultrabooks and is something I will have to live with by using an adapter.
To the annoyance of many reading this I'm not interested in Apple Macbooks, or Airs. I work in enterprise IT and want to be seen as a promoter and user of such. i.e. Professional and serious about managed IT, not the 'creative' and 'fashionable' BYOD crowd.
I've looked at a few laptops and my attention is now on the Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch as it seems to be a decent ultrabook that is light, robust, powerful.
Anyone have one of these or can suggest something else that may fit?
I'm getting sick of the heavy brick laptops that I've had over the years, so I'm starting to think an ultrabook is the way forward. I was originally keen on a convertible but the mechanisms used to flip the screen into table mode still seem to be in their infancy. I think I'll wait for that to settle down a bit.
I'm an architect so my usage is mainly MS Outlook, Word, Excel and a quite a bit of Visio. Screen can't be too small as I need to view a detailed diagram all on one page. Being able to fire up a VM occasionally is important too. I attend a lot of meetings and I take my laptop into most of them. I do plug into a projector quite a lot too, most of which are the VGA kind.
Priorities are lightweight, powerful and small enough that I can open it on a train. I currently have a 15" laptop screen that I can't open fully when sitting airline on a train. I reckon 14" would work, 13" at a push. Must be robust and powerful (i7 CPU and 8GB RAM ideally). VGA ports are not common on ultrabooks and is something I will have to live with by using an adapter.
To the annoyance of many reading this I'm not interested in Apple Macbooks, or Airs. I work in enterprise IT and want to be seen as a promoter and user of such. i.e. Professional and serious about managed IT, not the 'creative' and 'fashionable' BYOD crowd.
I've looked at a few laptops and my attention is now on the Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch as it seems to be a decent ultrabook that is light, robust, powerful.
Anyone have one of these or can suggest something else that may fit?
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