Hello
I dunno if there is a section for laptops/mobile devices on TPU therefore I decided to start this thread in the general hardware section. Anyway, my main concern is that I will be moving on to do a Research Masters in September and I really want to get a laptop for my work. All the laptops I've looked at and read about so far seem to have a lot of flex in the keyboard and/or very mushy light, shallow key actions that don't offer the feedback I want and need to type, as I will be doing a lot of that. I am very OCDish about this sort of thing. I consider the keyboard to be the achilees heel in a laptop and from what I've seen it is very hard to come by a laptop that has a solid keyboard, that has zero flex, has somewhat hard to press down buttons and gives you that almost mechanical keyboard feel. It also must not be glossy and I generally prefer black. It must be sturdy and rigid, don't want a lemon. It must be mobile, have a 13-14" screen and good battery life. I need it to be powerful enough so that it will handle multiple pdfs, firefox tabs and word documents at a time without any slowdown whatsoever, and 1080p videos. I do not expect it to be able to do more than that. I don't want anything Apple as I consider it to be a closed ecosystem and I prefer W7. Things like speaker/mic mute and wireless on/off switch buttons are a plus. Does such a beast exist? Can anyone out there help me find it?
PS: My budget is £1000 max!
PS2: I currently have a Thinkpad SL410 which I think is okay, but I still find the keyboard to have too much flex sometimes and not enough of the response I need from it.
thx
Andrei23
I dunno if there is a section for laptops/mobile devices on TPU therefore I decided to start this thread in the general hardware section. Anyway, my main concern is that I will be moving on to do a Research Masters in September and I really want to get a laptop for my work. All the laptops I've looked at and read about so far seem to have a lot of flex in the keyboard and/or very mushy light, shallow key actions that don't offer the feedback I want and need to type, as I will be doing a lot of that. I am very OCDish about this sort of thing. I consider the keyboard to be the achilees heel in a laptop and from what I've seen it is very hard to come by a laptop that has a solid keyboard, that has zero flex, has somewhat hard to press down buttons and gives you that almost mechanical keyboard feel. It also must not be glossy and I generally prefer black. It must be sturdy and rigid, don't want a lemon. It must be mobile, have a 13-14" screen and good battery life. I need it to be powerful enough so that it will handle multiple pdfs, firefox tabs and word documents at a time without any slowdown whatsoever, and 1080p videos. I do not expect it to be able to do more than that. I don't want anything Apple as I consider it to be a closed ecosystem and I prefer W7. Things like speaker/mic mute and wireless on/off switch buttons are a plus. Does such a beast exist? Can anyone out there help me find it?
PS: My budget is £1000 max!
PS2: I currently have a Thinkpad SL410 which I think is okay, but I still find the keyboard to have too much flex sometimes and not enough of the response I need from it.
thx
Andrei23
