Good laptop for home office

[String&stick]

Looks like I'm going to a weekly rotation at work to make sure we only have half the staff present at any one time. And I can't use my wife's school computer for work . . .

So any recommendations for solid laptops for working at home.

Need general programs but nothing fancy

 

[BuckHunter24]

I got a cheap chromebook for this purpose, cheap and works to bridge the gap. Not exactly a high capacity machine though.

 

[gopackfj80]

I’ve had good luck with Lenovo

 

[OFFHNTN]

I have a MacBook Air and it is great.

 

[Walking Birds]

I’ve had good luck with Lenovo

I've got a Lenova ideapad 320 (I think they might be discontinued?) that I really like. It's a bit slow for doing video edits, but it's great for everything else

 

[archp625]

How much are you wanting to spend. I have a Thinkpad X1 carbon. Its a durable work horse. I want to say they are $1200. If you are working form home for work shouldn't your company pay for the laptop?

 

[ODB]

If you aren’t a Mac person, the Thinkpad T470 (or whatever the new version is) is a damn good machine. I pretty much live in the Adobe suite (Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, Premiere) and I am quite impressed at how well it handles bouncing between them. I run a dock with two 22” monitors. Great setup for a home office.

 

[16Bore]

I’ve had good luck with “open box” stuff from Best Buy. They basically give them a free tune up and what not. Better than new in my opinion.

I’m no techie though...

 

[menhaden_man]

I’ve had good luck with Lenovo

We use Lenovo at our shop - about 25 or so laptops that travel quite a bit. I like em a lot compared to others in the past. Wouldn’t take a Dell for free.

 

[Hoot]

I work in automation/software development, I like the lenovo as well, currently have a T490. Like my macbook pro from 2013 as well, it's still going strong...

 

[Top147]

Thinkpad x2

try and find some refurbished A+ grade or similar. Add a SSD. amazing what you can get out of those used business laptops.

 

[GrayGoose]

Have your wife check with the tech department at the school to see if you can get a discount from whoever the district uses for computers. I'm a teacher and have had our tech department share this discount with us in the past. Never looked into it much though so not sure how great of a discount it is.