Laptop upgrade

[WickedPorter]

Is yours a 15 Retina? I consider my 15" Retina to be light and thin.

Yeah... 15" retina. It weighs in at right around 4.5lbs. By bleeding edge power-to-weight ratio standards, I find it a bit large/heavy in both footprint and weight, especially when trying to fit it on a tray table in economy aircraft seating or in cramped conference seating. I'd like to see a 13" model in a 3lbs or less thin and light footprint... fingers crossed.

 

[swatski]

Yeah... 15" retina. It weighs in at right around 4.5lbs. By bleeding edge power-to-weight ratio standards, I find it a bit large/heavy in both footprint and weight, especially when trying to fit it on a tray table in economy aircraft seating or in cramped conference seating. I'd like to see a 13" model in a 3lbs or less thin and light footprint... fingers crossed.

That is why my last 3 were/are macbook air. As connectivity challenged as those are, hard to beat for portability. I often ride motorcycles to work and can attest to the macbook air mechanical ruggedness. The Achilles heel? Oh yeah -- water, fluids. You spill something, smallest amount of splash, over the keyboard - they are effing gone.

 

[djetok]

Macs are overpriced, a new Win 10 laptop is going to be tough to beat, add office 365 and you have an awesome platform for less money.

I personally like an Intel i7 with at least 8gb of ram.

I have a yoga 900 , I-7 with 16 gb of ram and yoga 3 I-5 with 8 gb . Both systems run quickbooks great. My suggestion is first get the best processor with the highest amount of ram you can afford. I just bought my wife a amd 10 with 8 gb , she uses it much like you sound you will. My big thing is ram as you can see. Stay away from those 2 gb machines.

My 900 is over a year old and my 3 pro is 3 years old

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo-...drive-platinum-silver/5207101.p?skuId=5207101

 

[Joe Hellaby]

From your description of your needs, it's really hard to beat a chromebook for value. I'm no computer expert by any means, but I'm the one in my family everyone ask tech advice or help of. In the past couple years I've got my parents, wife, and inlaw using Chromebook laptops with 0 issues for us. They're just so simple and quick. Especially if you're just browsing the web and emailing. You can use either google docs or the cloud based microsoft office. Google docs and sheets work great for me.
I love how you can get one for under $200, and ever single time you open the laptop up, it's loaded and looking at google withing 2 seconds. Even on my sister inlaws 2.5 year old chromebook