- #Which is better excel for pc or mac full#
- #Which is better excel for pc or mac plus#
- #Which is better excel for pc or mac mac#
- #Which is better excel for pc or mac windows#
With that said, test driving laptops in a store and seeing what works for you is probably your best bet.
#Which is better excel for pc or mac full#
If you don't like the size and heft of the laptops that come with the full keyboard and prefer the smaller/lighter machines, I would recommend avoiding laptops with keyboards that have an Fn key on the left-hand side. What worked for me: Buy the lightest laptop you can get with a full keyboard (including number pad) and page up/down/home/end buttons that don't require an Fn key to activate. Switching was a huge boost to productivity in Excel. This is coming from someone who was convinced he'd use his beloved MBP in grad school until about 3 months in, when he grudgingly switched to a PC.
#Which is better excel for pc or mac windows#
If you will be using a lot of shortcuts in Excel, I strongly recommend getting a Windows laptop. The Mac's extra Fn key on the left hand side gets in the way. Some key mappings, as you'll find, just don't carry over. It is even more difficult with Parallels/another visualization system, even if you remap your keys. If you foresee using a lot of keyboard shortcuts for speed: Excel on a Mac, even with Boot Camp, is more difficult than Excel on a Windows laptop. This is from my personal experience in b-school. It's not rocking Crysis or whatever though. I've got the SP3 i5 with 8Gb RAM and I can play Starcraft and Diablo without much issue. If you get the i7 you can probably play games with decent framerates even.
#Which is better excel for pc or mac plus#
Plus it's a tablet and you can draw cool pictures like the guy on tv. well it's not the greatest, but I'm a large dude and I don't "fit" most normal laptops anyway. The portability really can't be overstated, it's really awesome if you use it to it's fullest extent. So nice to be able to carry all of my shit with me all the time without a 10lb laptop. My wife does the same with hers also, she can use the same dock at home when I'm not using it. Drop it in and I'm ready to work, and I have a dock at my desk at home with a similar setup so if I really need to look at something or just don't feel like getting dressed until after lunch I can be productive at home, too. The bonus is that I have a dock at my desk with a keyboard, mouse, and 27" monitor. I'm not gaming on it or anything, and I don't run some of the crazy spreadsheets I've seen some of you weirdos come up with, but it does everything I need it to do.
#Which is better excel for pc or mac mac#
A Mac with those specs is going to be at least $2500, and like Shervin said, it's a glorified facebook machine. If that is the case, go nuts, but you can get a PC with current gen quad core i7's, 256GB PCiE SSD, top shelf graphics cards (which benefit excel) and 8gb of RAM for cheap (under 1500). There is no denying that macs are the most durable with the best UE (trackpad, keys etc), but they SUCK for office, unless you're bootcamping it and running windows, not sure how this effects mac shortcuts, though. I have an XPS and it's a sick machine and awesome for office but you need a number pad and hitting Fn every time I want to lock a reference cell into a formula definitely slows me down. If you want something sleek, get an XPS and a number pad, but know that you have to hit the Fn key every time you want to use the F keys - Fn + F4, for example - and it can get annoying. Look at the Dell machines and, if you're going to be doing serious excel work, get an i7 processor with at least 8gb ram. Stop trying to look cool and trendy with your sleek PC and get one that's durable with a number pad.
PC all the way but forget all the models you listed. PS I know this topic is not soooo RE related but I want to get the inputs from you folks that are in the industry. The choices are HP Spectre x360, HP Spectre 13 (beautiful machine that is coming out in a few weeks), or MacBook Air 13' Other than that, I'm planning on keeping this laptop for 3-4 years after school end for personal use, in that case the Mac would be a better choice.īattery is also a big issue for me and it seems Mac batteries don't die as quickly as the PC ones. I've been using a company HP laptop for the past 2 years and have been loving it. Functionality wise, I don't think we'll doing any models that are too intense so I'm not giving up that much productivity on the shit Mac Excel.īut we might be doing some Argus in school so I'd have to get the Windows function on Mac and it'd be so annoying. What do you guys think? I had a Macbook Air since after undergrad until now (been 4 years) but it was damaged so I need a new machine. I heading to grad school in a few months and can't decide between a PC or a Mac.
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