Best high-performance Windows laptop for heavy Excel, Screaming Frog crawling, local AI & Python coding?

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cavas

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The title asks it all ... looking for real world experience and recommendations. Which windows laptop do you use for all of the above? Dont want to get into a debate between windows and macs,. I like macs but they're not in scope for this thread. Also dont tell me to get a desktop, I have one but I want something ... so ... have at it guys

 

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Check out alienware series and asus strix

 

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In my experience, the Thinkpad series tends to be virtually indestructible.

 

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Alienware and Dell XPS series both are powerful laptops

 

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Any laptop with Intel i7/Ryzen 7+, 32+ Gb of Ram, 1TB+ SSD. For coding you need a good keyboard and monitor. Seems you don't need a powerful GPU.

 

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Thanks for the responses guys, for the record I settled on a Lenovo Legion Pro 5i Gen 10 upgraded to 64gb. Close second was an ASUS ProArt P16 factory 64GB, very nice, much lighter, slightly smaller, and much more expensive Hope thats of use for other peeps.