David ChartierNeed recommendations for a solid mid-range Windows laptop. My wife likely needs one for work, building curriculum and messing around with AI. Maybe some video editing too. She’ll be using Articulate, FWIW.
Christina Warren@chartier Budget? The new surface devices announced yesterday look great.
@film_girl Maybe up to 800? Could go more if necessary
@chartier this just was announced this week - the Surface Laptop 13 is $854 for a 256GB/16GB RAM model with the student discount that anyone can get https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/b/buy-surface-laptop - this would be a contender in my recommendation
@chartier essentially a MacBook Air but with Windows. Asus might have some good ones too
@chartier you might also want to consider an M4 MacBook Air and then run Windows in Parallels. The experience is pretty good tbh. It doesn’t look like Articulate has a native ARM64 app but there are reports it runs well under Parallels which indicates it’ll work well on a Snapdragon machine too
@film_girl Thanks for all this. Yeah I assumed it could run in Parallels too but Jess thinks she heard somewhere the company recommends against that. We'll have to look into that since it might be an easier option