Best windows 7 laptop for a Digital Nomad?
With Windows 7 out I figure it’s about to time to get a new laptop. For the last 3 years I’ve been very happy with my amazing Panasonic Y5. It’s a “toughbook”, has a great screen and battery and it’s the only laptop that’s lasted more than a year for me!
But with insane dust in Cambodia and India it’s getting really slow now, probably just all bunged up with muck inside, and although I’ve upgraded the hard drive to 320 Gig that’s about as far as it will go. I really want something faster, and that means an SSD hard drive.
Now I would love to upgrade this to the latest version, but the new version is the Panasonic F series, which is horrible! It’s got this handle thing on the front, which doesn’t look cool, but the main problem is the screen resolution has gone down, which is a dealbreaker.
So I’ve spent far too much time reading reviews and trying to find the best new laptop to buy. I need something super powerful that’s also easy to carry around. The two that I’m thinking of..
Sony Vaio Z
This is super fast! With a 3 gig core 2 duo and best of all it’s available with a 500 GB SSD! It is so fast. The screen has huge resolution but only 13.3 inch size which is a bit small. But it blows all the other machines out of the water with the specs. The only problem? It’s sold out till November - and then I’m on my European tour!
So….
MacBook Pro 15 inch
I’ve been looking at macs for ages, all that hype does get to you, but don’t believe a word of it. Macs do not simple “just work”. They crash like crazy! Twice this year I’ve walked into a Mac store cash in hand and played around on Logic and it’s crashed. I guess I was building the Macs up to be as good as the iphone, which is amazing. But they’re just normal PCs with all the same hassles and problems.
The thing is that they might be the best PC out there. Having Logic and Final Cut at such bargain prices also takes any competition away from Windows machines. It is much cheaper to buy a mac at the moment. But there are still hassles, especially with moving old emails across and some older fonts. The main thing is the hard disks, no 512Gig SSD means I’ll be stuck with a slow hard drive again!
Anyway, I’m still deciding, if you find an amazing notebook out there for me, let me know…