Lightweight Laptop for Lightweight Duty
Lightweight Laptop for Lightweight Duty
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I have a Dell M4600 15" laptop. It's a reasonable spec. (i7, SSD, 16Gb RAM, etc.) and runs SW nicely. Trouble is it's a BEAST... After a long day out this week, several train rides, cabs and walking around with it all day the size and weight were annoying me. It's impractical on a train, the battery doesn't last long (OK, a little unfair as it's probably due a new one) so on a train with no plug I'm stuffed after 15min. I know it's a good CAD laptop but I could sacrifice power for portability because typically when I'm out for meetings and site days I'm not doing heavy CAD work: it's typically opening assemblies, interrogating and reviewing designs with customers and Word/Excel/internet/email. I do the heavy work in the office on my CAD workstation. Plus I'll still have the 4600 should I need it.
I quite like Dell and looked at a new XPS 13 this week. They look fantastic and that's the sort of size/weight I'd like to be at. I know it's a subjective question, but would a decent spec. (i7, SSD 16Gb RAM) one manage some light SW duties?
I quite like Dell and looked at a new XPS 13 this week. They look fantastic and that's the sort of size/weight I'd like to be at. I know it's a subjective question, but would a decent spec. (i7, SSD 16Gb RAM) one manage some light SW duties?






RE: Lightweight Laptop for Lightweight Duty
If I were shopping for a laptop and weight and performance was a big deal I would recommend:
http://www.boxx.com/products/mobile-workstations/g...
If you don't care about performance that much and you just want to lose all the weight you can, then look at the laptops lenovo offers. I never found their pc's to run SW worth a darn, but they don't weigh much.
Scott Baugh, CSWP
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RE: Lightweight Laptop for Lightweight Duty
RE: Lightweight Laptop for Lightweight Duty
From my personnal experience with the Surface Pro 3 (I5, 8gb ram, 256 ssd), It runs fine for an hour or two and after that it looks like the integrated gpu is unable to clear his memory and suddenly freezes. I would say it's ok for consultation work but I would not want to use it all day.
That's my 2 cents.
Patrick