Laptop for Sister

[TomSerious]

Hello!

 

So I want to find a new Home Setup for my sister.

She mainly needs it for "Office" work (MS Word, Excel and so on) and occasionally she wants to play "Sims".

 

This should be a "normal" Laptop (no 2in1 or touch) and some kind of docking station with 2 monitors (23"). (Laptop itself has to be under the table)

 

Now I am not very familiar with prebuilt systems, let alone Laptops.

She would prefer Dell stuff, since she has good experience with that at work.

 

What would be your suggestions regarding Laptops ?? Maybe also what would you recommend for Monitors (23")?

 

Thank you in advance!

[Spakes]

Well, first of all, what is your budget? Second, what size does your sister prefer? Third, what about expected storage and battery life?

[TomSerious]

7 minutes ago, Spakes said:

Well, first of all, what is your budget? Second, what size does your sister prefer? Third, what about expected storage and battery life?

Sorry, yeah:

- open Budget, but still good "value" 

- 13" Laptop

- 256 or 512GB SSD and an additional HDD with higher storage volume (like 1 or 2 TB).

 

Thanks!

[genexis_x]

11 minutes ago, TomSerious said:

- open Budget

Give a range on budget. Are you buying in US? Not many 13 inch laptops that are with HDD, fine without HDD?

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light usage

no 2in1 or touch

13 inch

256 or 512GB SSD and an additional HDD

[Spakes]

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Maybe we can get 1 TB of SSD. Is that sufficient? I suppose, OS + programs + Sims will use 200 GB of storage at max. Other stuff will be most probably music, photos, videos, some docs and other work stuff.

[TomSerious]

3 hours ago, genexis_x said:

Give a range on budget. Are you buying in US? Not many 13 inch laptops that are with HDD, fine without HDD?

Budget is about 1500 Euro (+/- 200 Euro), I am buying in Europe  

 

The HDD is not necessary, a 512GB SSD will be sufficent! (was just my old thinking ).

[genexis_x]

34 minutes ago, TomSerious said:

I am buying in Europe

Which country? Any links of online stores?

 

Also, any preferences on weight and battery life?

[TomSerious]

1 hour ago, genexis_x said:

Which country? Any links of online stores?

 

Also, any preferences on weight and battery life?

Austria, but I can order from Germany as well. 

 

It doesn't have to be a lightweight and battery life should be average I guess ^^.

 

What's with a Dell XPS 13 with:

i5-10210U

8GB RAM

512GB M.2 SSD

 

Would that be sufficient for her use case?

 

Edit: https://geizhals.at/dell-xps-13-7390-2019-frost-xw1tw-a2132853.html like this one

[genexis_x]

10 hours ago, TomSerious said:

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For that budget I would highly suggest business laptops instead of consumer grade like XPS

(will get back to you on what models later)

[TomSerious]

On 1/19/2020 at 6:17 AM, genexis_x said:

For that budget I would highly suggest business laptops instead of consumer grade like XPS

(will get back to you on what models later)

Alright thanks!