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You’d want a Lenovo think pad or dell. They are enterprise-grade, with enterprise support and enterprise software.
The legal industry is almost 100% Lenovo/dell/hp. All legal software runs on them, and the legal it industry collaborates on issues,testing.
Lenovo and dell can spec an enterprise laptop that would be just as good if not better than what’s on that desk.
This screams “buy me the most expensive laptop you can” but they were talking to their nephew who “knows computers”
What a clown show.
I doubt any legal software requires enterprise hardware to run. You tend to go through those companies because they have the support structure setup for enterprises, otherwise the majority of what people do on their computers is pretty hardware agnostic, especially with how much is web based these days.
Also with the shortages over the past couple years just getting any laptop matters more in many cases than getting a specific laptop. At the same time, at least learn to turn off the RGB for a business environment.
You’re not wrong, legal software doesn’t require special hardware to run, but when your PDF editor with its document management system plugin no longer displays more than 2 pages when viewing them in outlook’s attachment preview and it’s seemingly related to dpi and the monitor, it’s helpful if you are using hardware that is used by many other law firms with a similar combination of hardware and software.
Anyone in legal IT, or even other lawyers, would laugh at you for using a gaming laptop.
If dell is the bar for enterprise grade then that's not saying much. Everything I've seen from them in the last decade has been total ass. I'm using a 10 year old port replicator at work because I can't run 3 monitors off my laptop with any of their newer shit.
Actually, dell and Lenovo charge a large enterprise tax.
It's typically cheaper to buy a gaming laptop vs a similarly specced "enterprise" laptop.
There is little difference between them, other than "enterprise drivers" (which are just signed drivers) and some virtualization differences. Neither of which are required for a lawyer.
But sure, I bet a law firm has some nephew picking laptops and doesn't just allocate out laptops
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I have my husband's old work Lenovo and I love it