What laptop should I buy?

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

(10-24-2018 07:20 AM)Whiment Wrote:  Dell is very durable!
Asus looks very beautiful!

If you want durable AND beautiful you need a MacBook Pro. I am a big fan of 17inch notebooks, because with one of them I don't need a desktop computer at home and they still fit in the rucksack I take along for work.

Unfortunately Apple stopped making 17in models in 2011 but those later ones still have specs comparable to current models from e.g. HP.

My latest 17in MacBook Pro has an i7 Quadcore processor, 16GB Ram and 1.5 TB of SSD hard disk space (I moved the optical drive to an external enclosure to make space for a second hard disk), two graphic cards and plenty of connectors. I bought it second hand for about 2/3 of the price of a current 17in Hp Pavillion. It is powerful enough to run Windows in a Virtual Box with decent speed (I have very few applications that require Windows anyway), alternatively one could boot Windows natively.

The latest 15in MacBook Pros with Retina display are of course very pretty as well, but insanely expensive and - what I dislike most - require special adapters for every third party peripherial device.

As I use mine in front of audiences sometimes I (partly) covered the maufacturer logo with a protective sticker that I got custom made from an online print shop. The rest of the thick aluminium housing (machined from solid metal) is duable enough to carry the thing in one's bag without an extra protective case.

Regards
Max



NB: And that was the one I used before, a dual-core with 8GB RAM. I wanted to sell it on eBay, but my son, who didn't care the least for Apple computers until recently, snatched it from me: