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I think that weight might be for the case alone? The drives could be quite heavy.

Thanks! How much would that lot weigh? Big issue for me, I can barely lift my current machine!

Could be any of those. At my last job I could either take my laptop into the office and connect to an Ethernet network or work from home over a VPN mirroring one of the desktops. Depends on the client and their IT set up but I'd like to be as versatile as possible.

What do you mean by reputable / more reliable? Are you suggesting a ready made laptop? I don't find them well enough specced in terms of RAM and processing to suit what I need to do (hundreds of thousands of calculations all feeding into one another).

Okay, so you're saying that I can use a Home version of Windows? I will probably need to use it as a workstation attached in some way - remotely or via Ethernet - to a client's server.

I have the pro version of windows because I'm using it for work. I don't think I'm using bitlocker, how would I find out?

Sorry, not sure why I cut that off :(. Unique URL to re-configure: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/saved-configurations/lafite-pro-II-17/hA!GFAancX/

I'm an accountant and I work with MASSIVE Excel files - my home computer is an i9 with just about everything I can throw at it in terms of memory etc, and I still experience lags, even though I normally use manual recalculation. I need a smaller lighter laptop that I can take with me to clients...

I have a custom i-9 laptop which is fantastic and deals with my requirements beautifully but is far too heavy to lug about. I now need a lightweight one to carry with me. I don't game but I do build and run very, very calculation and data intensive spreadsheets. So I need plenty of RAM and a...

The GPU is what comes with the machine. I'm sure it's far in excess of what I need, though no doubt it will add ... er, something ... to those funny cat videos.

This is for work. I build huge linked spreadsheets,millions of cells with heavy duty database stuff going on. At the moment I have to use manual recalculation and I regularly break Excel. Extraction of database lines according to changing criteria is almost impossible, it just uses too much...

Thank you both very much for your help. I'll have a think about it and then stick in my order!

This is the preliminary spec: Chassis & Display Initia Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD 60Hz 72% NTSC LED Widescreen (1920x1080) Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™ i7 Quad Core Processor i7-10510U (1.8GHz, 4.9GHz Turbo) Memory (RAM) 64GB Corsair 2666MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 32GB) Graphics Card INTEL® HD...

Mostly I run the office stuff. However I do have my own side-business providing this kind of stuff to others - and for that I need horse power.

Thanks - and thanks in advance to anyone else who can help.