Recommend Laptop: Lightwt + Large Screen

mar<

I need to find a laptop for a small female user. She needs a large screen to view large spreadsheets, and also needs the portability, so as lightweight as possible would be great. I want to get a docking station with it so will get 19" or larger TFT to go with it, but it needs to be used off that too.

No other specific requirements. This is a top manager so something appropriate to that would be nice, should such a thing exist. Sonys are in vogue in the company, tho' personally i'm not a fan.

Thanks In Advance

vaio

The sony vaio with 17” screen running at 1929 x 1200 is hard to beat as a laptop but it’s not that light however the resolution is better than any 19” monitor I’ve come across. I run a 21” CRT monitor and that only runs 1600 x 1200.

Suppose it depends how good your eyes are

mar<

Thanks vaio - by you username I guess you're not exactly unbiased!

anyone else recommend any other make?

vaio

mar< wrote: »

Thanks vaio - by you username I guess you're not exactly unbiased! ……

yep, very biased in fact. I’ve had dell, ibm, tosh & gateway laptops in the past and the sony wins hands down. The screens are absolutely brilliant, I only wish I could afford a 21” that was as good.

Try one and I bet you’re convinced too

mar<

I've tried a few viao. The designs are very swish. For that extra few hundred tho' I'd rather buy something more technically sound. you know what managers are like tho' ..it matters more what something looks like rather than that it actually works well.

No, I think Sony are nothing special at all.

Little_John

Sony laptops look the part but they fall apart very quickly but not as quick as acer and cheap dells.

You will not get a light weight 17" laptop, the 17" factor means it is big and they dont go all out on minituriseing the internetals so they use heaveier components just because it is cheaper to do it that way.

mar<

ok thanks for that Lil John.

Little_John

As you said a docking station is an option, so look at the toshiba portage laptops tiny and light weight, drop it on a docking station and have a 19" monitor connected to it, keyboard and mouse to make it more of a desktop pc that she can take out on the road with her.

It isnt going to be an inexpensive optiona portage screen and docking station could cost you about £1500

mar<

Thanks LJ will look into that

nearlyrich

You won't be interested in my Vaio SZ series that weighs less than 2 kg then will you?

It has a high res 13.3 screen so you can see a lot of a spreadsheet and as a female user it's the best one I've had for carrying about all day.

I am biased too I have used all kinds of notebooks for about 10 years and I have never had a Vaio go faulty in the usual working life and I have dropped one from a height by accident with no ill effects.