Looking for laptop - great battery life and lightweight

copenhagen69 · May 2, 2018

Looking for a nice lightweight laptop with great battery life and enough power to run 2-3 instances of bluestacks. Hopefully 8gb + ram and a 1920+ resolution as well.

I was thinking maybe Samsung or asus ... but haven’t been laptop shopping in like 10 years haha.

What should I be looking into these days?

eidairaman1 · May 2, 2018

1920×1080 used to be 15".

Is this going to be used as a mobile gaming server due to 3 instances of bluestacks or are you going to game on it?

Remember thinner laptops are poor on cooling so it may thermally throttle.

nomdeplume · May 2, 2018

The first thing you need to do is list a budget and probably if you want new or gently used for that money.

copenhagen69 · May 2, 2018

eidairaman1 said:
1920×1080 used to be 15".

Is this going to be used as a mobile gaming server due to 3 instances of bluestacks or are you going to game on it?

Remember thinner laptops are poor on cooling so it may thermally throttle.

A little bit of gaming. Basically a mobile game or 2. Nothing real intense.

nomdeplume said:
The first thing you need to do is list a budget and probably if you want new or gently used for that money.

Budget doesn’t really matter as long as I get the wants. New laptop as I’ve never had luck with used and battery life won’t be as good as it should be.

If you are a stickler for needing a budget... something sub $2k

eidairaman1 · May 2, 2018

copenhagen69 said:
A little bit of gaming. Basically a mobile game or 2. Nothing real intense.

Budget doesn’t really matter as long as I get the wants. New laptop as I’ve never had luck with used and battery life won’t be as good as it should be.

If you are a stickler for needing a budget... something sub $2k

Lenovo/asus/toshiba

copenhagen69 · May 2, 2018

eidairaman1 said:
Lenovo/asus/toshiba

Ya the asus zenbook looks really solid to me. The Samsung 9 does as well.

Not sure about the Microsoft surface book, but it seems to have a great battery life to it.

Bill_Bright · May 2, 2018

You should also state what size screen you want.

copenhagen69 said:
Budget doesn’t really matter as long as I get the wants.

Okay, then this.

copenhagen69 · May 2, 2018

Bill_Bright said:
You should also state what size screen you want.
Okay, then this.

Screen size I am good with either 13" or 15"

I would but it is not lightweight, and I cant upgrade the SSD. Also does not talk about screen resolution or battery life .... soooo it really didnt hit any of my wants, minus being a laptop

user33331 · May 3, 2018

Choose a 2000$ Dell laptop. Dell is best.
If not Dell then HP Zbook or such for 2000-3000$.

900-1300$ Asus and MSI -gaming laptops are made cheaply.
Forget: Lenovo, Acer, Fujitsu, MS Surface...

FYFI13 · May 3, 2018

Dell Latitude 7280 is pretty damn sweet laptop that should suit your needs.

copenhagen69 · May 3, 2018

Is dell really the best laptop maker out there? I have always considered a Dell 3rd world lol. I have always had issues with my work dells.

The one reason I’m leaning to Samsung is the nifty integration with the Samsung phones. But it’s not a necessity to have.

user33331 · May 4, 2018

Mine 2006 Dell Precision M65 (Res.1680x1050) works flawlessly on Win10 64-bit, original battery lasts +2 hours. Remember to only buy the very top end Dell models >2000-4000$ when new. Not the <1000$ Dell models and you be fine.
Cheap companies buy ( nowadays only lease ) the lower quality line Dells.

xkm1948 · May 4, 2018

ASUS has shitty customer service. Nice product but horrible support.

I would suggest a Lenovo Y520 with GTX1060

copenhagen69 · May 4, 2018

user33331 said:
Mine 2006 Dell Precision M65 (Res.1680x1050) works flawlessly on Win10 64-bit, original battery lasts +2 hours. Remember to only buy the very top end Dell models >2000-4000$ when new. Not the <1000$ Dell models and you be fine.
Cheap companies buy ( nowadays only lease ) the lower quality line Dells.

maybe that is where I have gone wrong is that I have never had a $2k + dell ... I will look into

xkm1948 said:
ASUS has shitty customer service. Nice product but horrible support.

I would suggest a Lenovo Y520 with GTX1060

That seems a bit too gamey for me. only a 6 hour battery life is not ideal.

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Looking for laptop - great battery life and lightweight

copenhagen69

eidairaman1

The Exiled Airman

nomdeplume

copenhagen69

eidairaman1

The Exiled Airman

copenhagen69

Bill_Bright

copenhagen69

user33331

FYFI13

copenhagen69

user33331

xkm1948

copenhagen69

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