which is the best laptop?

F1demon

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Hi guys,

Really need some help here in choosing the best, most suitable laptop.

Im gng back to college and need a good, sturdy laptop with a fast bootup, good connectivity, and decent graphics package? I was hung up on laptops with a graphics card but realised i wont be needing this in a college setting and certainly dont want the temptation lying around!

I am keen on a 13 to 14 in screen, touch-enabled and with Win 8.1 loaded.

What im really asking for i guess is the choice of brand meeting these requirements esp battery life, screen size, SSD+SATA HDD and weight- as im not oo keen on having an optical drive included.

Can anyone pls advs me as i need to close this withon the next week! Tks!!
 
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for that budget, your going to have to pick which requirements you want more and sacrifice some. battery life weight and ssd equals $1000 +. you can get low weight hhd decent battery, you get decent weight ssd/hhd decent battery, mixture of weight small ssd only decent battery

but anything hitting all your requirements would be the laptops I stated above, which are a tad over $1000. you can look into refurbished though. if you buy one of those from a decent seller you usually get 30 day return if its not what you want condition wise

but ill keep an eye out and see if I can't find something better

Dblkk

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Budget? Used for? Programs you will be using. What battery life do you want, hard drive, solid state, ram choice.

Budget and programs you have will determine where to go. Otherwise, you want a 13-14' windows touch laptop. That's about 500 laptops, ranging from $200 to $2899

Not trying to sound snappy or anything, we just could not help you without knowing
 
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Dblkk

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Things I would recommend for college.

Microsoft Surface Pro 3, i5 8gb ram 256gb (best rounded model). $1300

Lenovo Yoga Pro 2 i7, 8gb, 256gb $1250

Samsung Ativ Book 9 plus i5 8gb 256gb $1500

Acer Aspire S7 i5/i7 8gb 256gb $1300-1500

Those would all be my best rated and most recommended models.

Lenovo will give 5 hours of workable usable battery, can fold to be a tablet, and has sub4k screen (I love mine)
Surface 3 is soo awesome ( I love mine) 7-9 hours workable battery and new 3:2 mode makes so much sense for tablet use and has no negative for desktop wise. Keyboard is better, and improved pen for notetaking in college in one note
Samsung, will give same screen (exact same) as the Lenovo, better keyboard, cooler look, and 8 hours usable battery
Acer has 1080p screen, good keyboard, great build, about 9+ hours usable battery
 

F1demon

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Hi...tks I understand. sorry for the incomplete info!

I need atleast 6-7 hrs battery life, weight approx 1.9 to 2.2kgs, Apps like MS Office, Browsing, storage HDD of 500Gb min, boot drive of min 8Gb SSD with Win 8.1 and a budget of approx. $550 to $600. Hope this helps? Battery. Is most important as I need to work on the go and use the laptop for charging devices simultaneously.

Would also like to mention that am not keen on Apple. Was looking at the Lenovo Flex series of 14inch laptops? Is that a good bet?

I don't have gaming or graphics apps on my mind as will be doing more Research than creative arts stuff.

Tks.
 

Dblkk

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for that budget, your going to have to pick which requirements you want more and sacrifice some. battery life weight and ssd equals $1000 +. you can get low weight hhd decent battery, you get decent weight ssd/hhd decent battery, mixture of weight small ssd only decent battery

but anything hitting all your requirements would be the laptops I stated above, which are a tad over $1000. you can look into refurbished though. if you buy one of those from a decent seller you usually get 30 day return if its not what you want condition wise

but ill keep an eye out and see if I can't find something better
 
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