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I'm a data analyst and here is what my daily tools look like

For work

- Excel, Google Sheets, Looker Studio, Power BI, Tableau, PostgreSQL. BigQuery, and tools like these

- Requires heavy RAM, like some of the google sheets and dashboards consume upto 10GB

- Better screen for accurate color

- daily 10-12 hours

For personal use (Gaming)

- City building & one shooter games (Skyline, anno, COD, etc)

As far as i understand, i will need minimum

- core i7 or ryzen 7

- RTX 5050

- RAM 24 GB (32 preferred)

- 1 TB SSD

Here is more info

- don't plan on traveling with the laptop, just getting it because my work won't provide a laptop. Otherwise would've build a pc

- budget is around $2,000, can go a bit more maybe?

Really really confused. Never bought a gaming laptop before. Used mac for work and personal pc for gaming.

Need some suggestions.

Thanks

I'm a data analyst and here is what my daily tools look like

For work

- Excel, Google Sheets, Looker Studio, Power BI, Tableau, PostgreSQL. BigQuery, and tools like these

- Requires heavy RAM, like some of the google sheets and dashboards consume upto 10GB

- Better screen for accurate color

- daily 10-12 hours

For personal use (Gaming)

- City building & one shooter games (Skyline, anno, COD, etc)

As far as i understand, i will need minimum

- core i7 or ryzen 7

- RTX 5050

- RAM 24 GB (32 preferred)

- 1 TB SSD

Here is more info

- don't plan on traveling with the laptop, just getting it because my work won't provide a laptop. Otherwise would've build a pc

- budget is around $2,000, can go a bit more maybe?

Really really confused. Never bought a gaming laptop before. Used mac for work and personal pc for gaming.

Need some suggestions.

Thanks

I'm a data analyst and here is what my daily tools look like

For work

- Excel, Google Sheets, Looker Studio, Power BI, Tableau, PostgreSQL. BigQuery, and tools like these

- Requires heavy RAM, like some of the google sheets and dashboards consume upto 10GB

- Better screen for accurate color

- daily 10-12 hours

For personal use (Gaming)

- City building & one shooter games (Skyline, anno, COD, etc)

As far as i understand, i will need minimum

- core i7 or ryzen 7

- RTX 5050

- RAM 24 GB (32 preferred)

- 1 TB SSD

Here is more info

- don't plan on traveling with the laptop, just getting it because my work won't provide a laptop. Otherwise would've build a pc

- budget is around $2,000, can go a bit more maybe?

Really really confused. Never bought a gaming laptop before. Used mac for work and personal pc for gaming.

Need some suggestions.

Thanks

Hello! I have always been an windows user. But for my work, i have decided to switch to mac.

I have been using M1 air (8 core i think) for the 1.5 year in my job and have a 6 years old windows laptop at home (intel i3, 8 gb, very poor spec)

I need to buy a laptop for my next job. Issue is, I'm very very confused about which one to buy.

Here is what my daily tools look like

- Heavy google sheets (requires 2-3 gb ram sometimes per sheet)

- Looker Studio (Data Viz Tool) (Some dashboards require upto 10 gb ram)

- BigQuery

- Claude

- Programming related tools (not a regular use as I'm still learning)

I'm also leaning toward heavy data stuff.

I will also need to use Power BI and other MS softwares and want to play games (most city building, Skyline, Anno). Probably will buy parallels subscription.

Now, i have saved up $2000 and want to buy a laptop where i can do everything for the next 5 years.

And I'm very confused and don't know which one to go for that will cover all these without any issue.

Hello! I have always been an windows user. But for my work, i have decided to switch to mac.

I have using M1 air (8 core i think) for the 1.5 year in my job and have a 6 years old windows laptop at home (intel i3, 8 gb, very poor spec)

I need to buy a laptop for my next job. Issue is, I'm very very confused about which one to buy.

Here is what my daily tools look like

- Heavy google sheets (requires 2-3 gb ram sometimes per sheet)

- Looker Studio (Data Viz Tool) (Some dashboards require upto 10 gb ram)

- BigQuery

- Claude

- Programming related tools (not a regular use as I'm still learning)

I'm also leaning toward heavy data stuff.

I will also need to use Power BI and other MS softwares and want to play games (most city building, Skyline, Anno). Probably will buy parallels subscription.

Now, i have saved up $2000 and want to buy a laptop where i can do everything for the next 5 years.

And I'm very confused and don't know which one to go for that will cover all these without any issue.