After over two years of trying different machines, here’s what I’ve learned.
I spent more than two years trying to find the perfect laptop for my needs as a writer and I gladly share my findings with you. Maybe you can save yourselves some headaches and find the information I provide useful.
Short, simple answer
Lenovo Thinkpad.
Slightly longer answer
If you’re thinking about a laptop, you might want to be “mobile” when writing. We all know the cliché of a writer sitting at Starbucks, hammering away, slurping his soy milk latté. But if you’re serious about writing, especially creative writing in long form, you’ll spend lots and lots of time stationary, in one location, staring at screen, hunching over, typing away.
A Laptop has many drawbacks for the price of mobility. The screen sizes can be too small, the keyboards oftentimes are sub par and you pay much more for a laptop than for a comparable desktop computer, just because everything needs to be smaller. Also the performance of Laptops, even if they have cought up a lot recently, still is no match for a desktop…
