Spec my director "a mac"

almoststew1990

almoststew1990

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My director has asked me, the "computer guy", to get him specifically a mac laptop for business. I know lots about PC hardware and Windows but nothing about macs and mac laptops! Can someone spec me a mac based on the following:

-This laptop would be carried around a lot so light weight is good.
-It can't have too small a screen. I'd say 13" absolute minimum.
-A full 8h day (with maybe an hour or two of the laptop "going to sleep") of battery life would be good.
-It will mainly be used for MS Office for Mac- emails and word / excel so CPU, GPU performance and Storage amount isn't essential.
-I think an SSD would be the biggest performance influence so I'd like it to have an SSD.

He uses as Mac at home already so he is used to the OS. OCUK doesn't sell Macs, so I assume it is safe to ask where a good place to get a Mac is? Also, can someone recommend a travel-y case?
 
all MacBooks have SSDs, get him the 13" Macbook pro it has an insanely fast SSD in it, buy direct from Apple, its the best place usually
 
Can't really buy a Mac without an SSD nowadays, of course the iMacs and Mac minis still come with them in some configurations but aside from that, nothing.

An i5/8GB MBP 13" with an external display, keyboard and mouse would probably do nicely. If he's really, really heavy on multitasking and dealing with massive spreadsheets, maybe 16GB of memory is worth a go. If he's going to run a VM for Windows and Office occasionally, same advice goes really with a tilt more towards the 16GB.

When you say a case, do you literally mean a case or cover of some type, or just a bag? I'd personally not recommend cases purely because any grit between them can cause more damage than the machine would be exposed to without. A bit of care and a decent bag would do nicely.
 
Buy from the Apple store. Outside of Costco special offers, no-one else discounts the RRP in any meaningful way.
 
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