To Buy: Bulk Work Laptops

[themellowtiger]

Hello, Hello forum goers;

I recently, was contacted by a friend's mother to buy 20 or so laptops for her business in Vietnam, being that it is must less expensive for her to get me to buy them, ship them to myself in the US and she flys up and brings them back.

She left the decision of which laptop entirely up to me, and because it is a large decision involving alot of money, I'd thought I'd ask for some more opinions.

 

Her employees will be using these laptops for menial internet / word processing tasks, involving primarily web-browsing, email, microsoft office work and a little photoshop. Her budget is ~600 dollars per laptop, but that seems high for such tasks.

 

Any Ideas which laptops I should recommend? 

[79wjd]

Hello, Hello forum goers;

I recently, was contacted by a friend's mother to buy 20 or so laptops for her business in Vietnam, being that it is must less expensive for her to get me to buy them, ship them to myself in the US and she flys up and brings them back.

She left the decision of which laptop entirely up to me, and because it is a large decision involving alot of money, I'd thought I'd ask for some more opinions.

 

Her employees will be using these laptops for menial internet / word processing tasks, involving primarily web-browsing, email, microsoft office work and a little photoshop. Her budget is ~600 dollars per laptop, but that seems high for such tasks.

 

Any Ideas which laptops I should recommend? 

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/g-series/g50-70/?sb=:000001C9:000122E1:

 

Define "a little" photoshop... Very little--in which case an i3 is perfect, or a decent/heavy amount, in which case a real cpu would be helpful? 

[Clyne]

i don't think you'll able to get something good at that price, possibly 800 or more

but you can get a thinkpad

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834317106

[Toddwjp]

get something lenovo, (yeah there pretty much the best business laptops there is)

 

core i3s should be fine for most things, maybe see if she wants to get a couple higer end laptops so if photoshop is needed then a few employess can do that.

[themellowtiger]

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/g-series/g50-70/?sb=:000001C9:000122E1:

 

Define "a little" photoshop... Very little--in which case an i3 is perfect, or a decent/heavy amount, in which case a real cpu would be helpful? 

 

 

get something lenovo, (yeah there pretty much the best business laptops there is)

 

core i3s should be fine for most things, maybe see if she wants to get a couple higer end laptops so if photoshop is needed then a few employess can do that.

 

 

just for logos / site images work. 

[Toddwjp]

just for logos / site images work. 

 

then they will be fine.

[79wjd]

just for logos / site images work. 

So very low demanding tasks. I'd go with pretty much any Lenovo i3 laptop then. 

 

/I'm assuming she 1) needs laptops and not desktops, or 2) buying laptops where you live and brining them to Vietnam is cheaper than just buying/building a desktop in vietnam