New Laptop suggestion

offroad on 25/12/2024 - 21:09

Hey guys, can someone please direct me in right direction in choosing a laptop that i can use for personal and business use.

Currently i have a MACBOOK PRO 13 i5
16GB 512GB which i bought in September 2020. Yes its a cool laptop and i only use it to transfer my iphone photos into it and i use it to edit my raw photos in lightroom.

Its really a pain when i have to connect my external hdd to it or my camera memory card to it because of apple using usb c. Also now my cracked lightroom has stopped working on it and no new cracked torrent seems to work on this new sonoma mac os.

So pls suggest some new windows based laptop that i can use for my photography edits (hobby) and i am starting as mortgage adviser next month (quitting my bank job) so i will be keying loan apps on it too.

Thanks heaps in advance.

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  • coffeee on 26/12/2024 - 09:31
    +1

    i would have gotten apple silicone for portability ( i like my m1 air) but dont know what mortgage apps you need, i use Satechi dongles.

  • jackvdbuk on 26/12/2024 - 09:48

    My only tip would be to not mix work apps and risky apps on the same device.

    Id go into noels and have a look, you havent mentioned budget but at a minimum go 1tb ssd and 16gb mem with a recent cpu

    • offroad on 26/12/2024 - 10:57

      Up to $2k i would say. I wonder how these new snapdragon ones are compared to i7

      • jackvdbuk on 26/12/2024 - 11:26

        Id avoid them as some apps dont support it

      • Grandma on 26/12/2024 - 16:39

        all the super duper good stuff about new macs, but the compatiability isn't 100%.

        IIRC vpn support was still in the works so we decided against them for our guys in the last chunk of updates we did

        • offroad on 26/12/2024 - 17:21

          Yes they are so cool but such a pain sometimes. I learned computers from windows platform so im much comfortable with windows shortcuts etc

  • Fox419 on 26/12/2024 - 10:21

    Lenovo have a range of laptops that are often best bang for buck.

    https://www.lenovo.com/nz/en/laptops/results/?sortBy=priceUp

    • offroad on 26/12/2024 - 10:58

      Thanks will check that out

      • ace310 on 26/12/2024 - 16:02

        Second lenovo laptops especially the thinkpad ones.

  • offroad on 26/12/2024 - 10:58

    How are the microsoft surface guys?

    • 2cheap on 26/12/2024 - 12:10

      Not an 'expert' but a big Surface fan depending on use case. I got a Surface Book 1 for teaching due to the write on screen. Best thing at the time. I personally bought the Surface Book 3. Still the best IMHO. However, you pay a premium. I have an HP with a pen and touch screen and it is 90% as good for a much lower cost. Surface Pro, portable but underpowered. Surface Go very under powered. Surface laptop too expensive for what you get. If the cost not a concern, great device.

  • kinetic9 on 26/12/2024 - 12:38

    Have you considered refurbished laptops? I'm looking for one in the new year as well, however I don't need any photo editing capability. I find refurb business laptops have good bang for buck. Stuff like the HP Probook/Elitebooks or Dell Latitudes.

    I see places like nzpcclearance.co.nz or ptlcomputers.co.nz have a couple of HP Zbook studios which might be suitable for running Lightroom. I don't have any experience with the Zbooks, so you might need to google some real world reviews. I've bought from nzpcclearance before and it was fine, albeit a couple of years ago. There are probably other refurb sellers out there too.

  • Grandma on 26/12/2024 - 16:38

    Hey OP any reason to switch to windows?

    The apple silicon macs operate a bit like and ipad in terms of battery, smoothness, speed, and MOST importantly for sanity heat output. I bought an M1 air a few years ago, gave it to the ex (eugh) and got an m2 air 8gb. My work is a 32gb i7 evo dell thing and it runs a fan most of the time and isn't anywhere near as quick.

    I get the dock issues, fyi m2 and below can only do 1 external display at all, but a USB-hub is raesonably inexpensive if you dont require a 4k 60fps monitor coming out of it.

    The new surface laptops that have the snapdragon chips have the benefits of the new macs being so fast / not really even needing a fan (the mac pros have them but they're not outputting enough heat that it's going to be noticable when they're on) / all-day battery as a starting point BUT have the tradeoff that some apps still run in emulation, some dont work at all (mostly older stuff) and cracked adobe isn't gonna be there for a long time I'd guess

    Also OP. PLEASE reconsider using cracke software on a system that is going to have sensitive information on it, especially ifnormation that isn't yours.

    • offroad on 26/12/2024 - 17:23

      Yes im going to buy all genuine softwares on my work laptop to protect my clients info.

    • offroad on 26/12/2024 - 17:25

      I have heard some banks excel based calculators or crm is not compatible with macbooks. Can be challenging at times therefore thinking of getting windows laptop as my work laptop and keep using my macbook as my personal laptop

  • Bhavana on 27/12/2024 - 06:48

    I was hunting around for a new laptop yesterday. Check this out -
    https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/NBKACN1575ABS/Acer-Nitro-AN…

    Not too sure if it meets your needs but I thought it's a really good price for the specs.

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