Help me choice a laptop for while I go traveling

wingsgb · Feb 1, 2015

Hi all,

Hoping someone can help me out in deciding what laptop is best suited for my needs. I have a top of the range gaming desktop which I use for my games so I don't wanna go overkill on the laptop. My main concern is battery life, size/weight, performance/gaming in that order.

I am abouts to go traveling across 17 countries over 5-6months. I leave on 27th March so don't mind holding on if something new is due to be released. While I'm traveling I want to upload pics, maybe abit of video editing and to keep me entertained on the night busses with some basic RTS/ strategy games on low.

With the launch of Intel new broadwell cpu i7-5500u I see the power saving is a lot better and laptops like the dell xps 13 has a lot longer battery life while at the same time should allow me to play some basic games.

There's the Surface pro 3 but it uses the 4th gen cpu, less battery life, strange res, overheats and more expensive.

I read a old article dated last year suggesting the acer travel mate p645 got 8hr+ while the Lenovo think pad t440 got 14hr+. These both have a dedicated GPU which is always good. Is there any newer models?

Lastly any suggestions on the asus range.

Thanks in advance

g-unit1111 · Feb 1, 2015

Surface Pro 3s are very sweet devices but they can get extremely costly depending on the options you want. Base model starts at $999, but the top of the line i5 and 512GB model runs somewhere in the $1800 range.

Depending on what you get entirely depends on what you want to spend and where you are buying from. If you post those things it would help to suggest a laptop. Those estimated battery life predictions are pretty laughable at best because no laptop lasts for 14+ hours.

wingsgb · Feb 1, 2015

Thanks for your reply g-unit1111, I will say £1300 is my budget that way the surface pro 3 is in the price range but would like other options. I'm in the UK so will buy here or have it shipped here.

velo3100 · Feb 1, 2015

Feel free to laugh your head gamers, I would say that the macbook air the best for you as it has one of the best battery life and it can handle both basic rts and light video editing. It has a good battery life and it is very light. But the dell xps 13 does look like a good deal though. I would wait until more reviews come in and more laptops with the 5 gen cpus are in laptops and then buy.

g-unit1111 · Feb 4, 2015

velo3100 :

The thing I don't like about the Macbook Air is that you're pretty much limited to 128GB of onboard storage and for video editing this will get used extremely quickly. Sure the battery life is good, but if you try to add, say a 1TB mSATA card it's not easy. I would get something like an MSI GS70 which uses the current generation Intel CPU: http

/www.scan.co.uk/products/173-msi-gs70-2qd(stealth)-410-26ghz-core-i7-4720hq-16gb-128gb-ssd-1tb-hdd-2gb-nvidia-geforce-gtx-965

velo3100 · Feb 9, 2015

But the problem is that the geforce card will ruin the battery life. As he will be travelling, battery life is more important than gaming performance as he has a gaming pc at home.

g-unit1111 :

velo3100 :

The thing I don't like about the Macbook Air is that you're pretty much limited to 128GB of onboard storage and for video editing this will get used extremely quickly. Sure the battery life is good, but if you try to add, say a 1TB mSATA card it's not easy. I would get something like an MSI GS70 which uses the current generation Intel CPU: http

/www.scan.co.uk/products/173-msi-gs70-2qd(stealth)-410-26ghz-core-i7-4720hq-16gb-128gb-ssd-1tb-hdd-2gb-nvidia-geforce-gtx-965

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