laptop recommendations

[NorthEast]

hi

Looking for a new laptop

screen 14-16”
cool running not noisy
not brick weight
use - sketch up and general use, word and excel etc.
budget £1000

All suggestions welcome, thanks.

[HairyMaclary]

M1 macbook air

This coming from a fairly diehard PC fanboi... I've recently seen the light with a MBP.

[xeny]

MacBook Air?

[colin79666]

MacBook Air if you can be happy at 13”. Apparently size isn’t everything.

[Jenny Tailor]

Macbook Air.

It really is a phenominal piece of kit.

Stone dead silent - no fan.
No fan needed.

I can't wax lyrical enough about how stonkingly good it is.

Edited by Jenny Tailor on Sunday 22 May 15:33

[bitchstewie]

Have you considered a MacBook Air?

Sent from my MacBook Air.

[Jenny Tailor]

bhstewie said:

Have you considered a MacBook Air?

Sent from my MacBook Air.

Still loving yours?

[bitchstewie]

It's very nice and piss take aside I'd definitely encourage NorthEast to look at the possibility.

I don't think SketchUp is native M1 not sure if that matters if Rosetta is good enough.

[Bacon Is Proof]

If you're doing a lot of data entry into Excel then I'd consider something with a full keyboard or it can get very tiresome.

[robsa]

Bacon Is Proof said:

If you're doing a lot of data entry into Excel then I'd consider something with a full keyboard or it can get very tiresome.

On a laptop? You mean a separate numeric keypad?

[Bacon Is Proof]

You can get a full keyboard on a 15.6" laptop. Just something to consider depending on your usage.

[bitchstewie]

Guessing "not brick weight" figures then though?

We have some 15" Precision laptops at work and I swear the power supply weighs more than my Air does.

Sod carrying one of those about.

[NorthEast]

Thanks for all your replies,
Looks as if the Macbook air gets the thumbs up from a lot of people.
I'll have a look at the sketch up forums and see if there's any further info if the Macbook Air would be suitable for a light user.
Noted re keyboard and excel, don't have a huge amount of data entry work.
Can you network the Macbook Air with home pc for file sharing?

[colin79666]

NorthEast said:

Can you network the Macbook Air with home pc for file sharing?

Yes. Just share it as usual in Windows and the Mac can connect to the smb share to read/write files.

Oh and sketchup 2022 is M1 native

[Jenny Tailor]

NorthEast said:

Thanks for all your replies,
Looks as if the Macbook air gets the thumbs up from a lot of people.
I'll have a look at the sketch up forums and see if there's any further info if the Macbook Air would be suitable for a light user.
Noted re keyboard and excel, don't have a huge amount of data entry work.
Can you network the Macbook Air with home pc for file sharing?

Of course.
If it is MS files. Get MS365 licences and both machines can work on the same MS type file at the same time

You can get a USB keyboard - or an Apple (or other) BT keyboard if you need a full size keyboard.
Youtube/ Google is your friend re: Sketchup and M1 silicon.