1. What is your budget?
A: $500 -$800, prefer under $700 unless the additional $ buys a real leap up. If that is the case, would even stretch a little farther.
2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
A: 14 or 15", but even larger would be OK if not too heavy.
3. What screen resolution do you want?
A: Don't have a technical spec, but am not a gamer, do lots of word doc editing and some work in excel, am well into middle age, so crisp visual is important.
4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
A: Portable, if I understand the question. Will use mostly when traveling or at home -- will not be primary work computer. Relatively lightweight is great as my shoulders and back have not appreciated my current brick of a laptop.
5. How much battery life do you need? A: At least one domestic plane flight -- 3-5 hours?
6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)?
A: No games. So boring ;-)
7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)
A: Reliable, speedy connectivity is important for remote access to desktop from court, conferences, etc. Will also want to stream Youtube video trainings, and for personal use, watch films.
8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?
A: Since this computer is mostly for travel, I'm not too concerned about a big hard drive . I have an external hard drive.
9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.
A: Have mostly been using websites that are collecting and evaluating Black Friday "deals," and linking to store and company sites.
10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
A: I run a small non-profit, so no budget for luxury. I usually keep them till they die.
11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
A: Ideally would like DVD R/W, could give that up.
12. Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons.
Lenovo -- highly recommend by other attorneys, but they are talking Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, which is at least $300 over my budget. I'm not sure which Lenovo products that I can buy within my budget (if any) I should consider.
Dell -- good reputation as solid business laptops, but have heard their customer support is terrible.
HP -- ?
All three are offering many deals right now, but I find it hard to understand differences in features & configurations and what would be of real use to me.
13. What country do you live in? USA
14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.
A: $500 -$800, prefer under $700 unless the additional $ buys a real leap up. If that is the case, would even stretch a little farther.
2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
A: 14 or 15", but even larger would be OK if not too heavy.
3. What screen resolution do you want?
A: Don't have a technical spec, but am not a gamer, do lots of word doc editing and some work in excel, am well into middle age, so crisp visual is important.
4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
A: Portable, if I understand the question. Will use mostly when traveling or at home -- will not be primary work computer. Relatively lightweight is great as my shoulders and back have not appreciated my current brick of a laptop.
5. How much battery life do you need? A: At least one domestic plane flight -- 3-5 hours?
6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)?
A: No games. So boring ;-)
7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)
A: Reliable, speedy connectivity is important for remote access to desktop from court, conferences, etc. Will also want to stream Youtube video trainings, and for personal use, watch films.
8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?
A: Since this computer is mostly for travel, I'm not too concerned about a big hard drive . I have an external hard drive.
9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.
A: Have mostly been using websites that are collecting and evaluating Black Friday "deals," and linking to store and company sites.
10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
A: I run a small non-profit, so no budget for luxury. I usually keep them till they die.
11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
A: Ideally would like DVD R/W, could give that up.
12. Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons.
Lenovo -- highly recommend by other attorneys, but they are talking Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, which is at least $300 over my budget. I'm not sure which Lenovo products that I can buy within my budget (if any) I should consider.
Dell -- good reputation as solid business laptops, but have heard their customer support is terrible.
HP -- ?
All three are offering many deals right now, but I find it hard to understand differences in features & configurations and what would be of real use to me.
13. What country do you live in? USA
14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.