Looking for a laptop recommendation

wwalexander

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1. What is your budget?

$800 top end. Ideally around $300-$600

2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?

Any.

3. What screen resolution do you want?

Hopefully 1366x768 or greater. Not too big of a deal.

4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?

Somewhat portable.

5. How much battery life do you need?

Ideally 6-8 hours.

6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)?

Not really, though being able to run a few games on Low would be nice.

7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)

Photo editing, Adobe Illustrator/InDesign

8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?

100 GB or greater, very preferably SSD.

9. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
As long as possible, but at least 2 years.

12. Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons.

Lenovo, Asus, Dell, since I have used them and think they are generally good quality.

13. What country do you live in?
USA
 
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There's nothing really hard-core that you do that any laptop would have any trouble with. All I can say is that if you want to do any gaming, avoiding Intel graphics would be a good idea. Avoiding Intel graphics is always a good idea because the image quality is crap and their drivers are broken pretty much out of the box. You want long battery life and honestly. no laptop is going to give you 6-8 hours if you're actually using it. I think that this $500 laptop would be more than enough for what you need and would deliver fantastic battery life:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215258
Here's a tomshardware review of the platform itself. I have one that's almost identical and I love it...

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There's nothing really hard-core that you do that any laptop would have any trouble with. All I can say is that if you want to do any gaming, avoiding Intel graphics would be a good idea. Avoiding Intel graphics is always a good idea because the image quality is crap and their drivers are broken pretty much out of the box. You want long battery life and honestly. no laptop is going to give you 6-8 hours if you're actually using it. I think that this $500 laptop would be more than enough for what you need and would deliver fantastic battery life:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215258
Here's a tomshardware review of the platform itself. I have one that's almost identical and I love it.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/a8-3500m-llano-apu,2959.html
 
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