Reply to: What do you think of this spec for my new pc?

[kevpuk]

Thinking that because it's "the company's money" it doesn't count is definitely foolish


Anyway did the OP ever buy anything?

Meh, I dunno - horses for courses and all that

I wanted a new laptop, I needed something powerful for a variety of reasons - to me, it was either buy myself or have MyCo buy it. Given the choice of who paid, I think I made the right one

Ultimately, it is a business tool - alright, the discrete gfx card may not have been necessary - and as the business I am in requires a certain level of hardware (actually stipulated in my current contract!) then there really was nothing foolish involved. To my mind, it was fortuitous that the contract had such stipulations, as it lined up nicely with what I wanted, but wasn't sure I could justify

[d000hg]

An occasional fool, and his company's money :-P

Thinking that because it's "the company's money" it doesn't count is definitely foolish


Anyway did the OP ever buy anything?

[MicrosoftBob]

Realistically, I reckon 16GB RAM and 2x SSD in RAID is the way forward.......oh, and an i7

Add in at least a GTX NVidia card, too

Make sure that it's at last a 6gb graphics card to future proof it, for running on multiple 4k monitors....

[kevpuk]

A fool and his money...

An occasional fool, and his company's money :-P

[d000hg]

Realistically, I reckon 16GB RAM and 2x SSD in RAID is the way forward.......oh, and an i7

Add in at least a GTX NVidia card, too

A fool and his money...

[Sysman]

My invoicing laptop is this

ASUS N56, N56VB-S4041H, ASUS N56VB-S4041H

With a Samsung 1TB SSD upgrade.

In its day, one of these knocked out some pretty impressive invoices:

[kevpuk]

That's what I have in my laptop. What about an office PC?

Ah, that is my laptop!

@ Scrag - Indeed, need shiny powerful machines to generate my invoices ;-)

[Scrag Meister]

Realistically, I reckon 16GB RAM and 2x SSD in RAID is the way forward.......oh, and an i7

Add in at least a GTX NVidia card, too

A man after my own heart, if you want your invoices to look really pretty in UHD.

[Churchill]

Realistically, I reckon 16GB RAM and 2x SSD in RAID is the way forward.......oh, and an i7

Add in at least a GTX NVidia card, too

That's what I have in my laptop. What about an office PC?

[DimPrawn]

Is that touch-screen?

No. I don't do touchy feely.

[rsingh]

My invoicing laptop is this

ASUS N56, N56VB-S4041H, ASUS N56VB-S4041H

With a Samsung 1TB SSD upgrade.

Is that touch-screen?

[DimPrawn]

Realistically, I reckon 16GB RAM and 2x SSD in RAID is the way forward.......oh, and an i7

Add in at least a GTX NVidia card, too

My invoicing laptop is this

ASUS N56, N56VB-S4041H, ASUS N56VB-S4041H

With a Samsung 1TB SSD upgrade.

[vetran]

Well, having read the replies on this thread and having spent some time considering it, I finally decided to include an SSD in the spec of my new machine. I bought the machine and it's now up and running. It is fast and works great!

Thanks to all who posted on this thread.

Cheers,
Bwana

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did you do all the SSD tuning to make sure it doesn't write to the disk as much, not such a problem nowadays but it can stop it responding occasionally.

[kevpuk]

A little under powered for really serious invoicing.

Realistically, I reckon 16GB RAM and 2x SSD in RAID is the way forward.......oh, and an i7

Add in at least a GTX NVidia card, too

[Scrag Meister]

A little under powered for really serious invoicing.