For $2500 she can get a top of the line unit...I don't buy Dells either, I just got a new HP Elitebook 8530p with (almost) all the bells and whistles on it for about half of that. I run Win2K8 R2 server on it along with three or four virtual machines running at all times. It is more than enough.
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Tom Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks: > > My wife asked for advice on laptops. At her work her PC is due for > replacement, and all new-issues units are laptops. The unit must be Dell, > and she has a spending limit of about $2,500. She's not at her desk all day > and several days a week she works from home from her home PC. The work > laptop does not need to be light since it probably won't be moved much, but > a 17" screen would be nice, since there will not be an external monitor. > > All of the laptop's I purchase here at work are the Lenovo/IBM ThinkPad > line, which I like very much. I don't have much experience with Dell > laptops though. > > Anyone have any recommendations for a particular line? She's limited to > the Latitudes, Precisions, and XPS units (Higher Education). > > Thanks, > Tom > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is > for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential > and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or > distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message. > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
