.Total Budget- Rs 1,15,000 or 830 US$

.Form factor priority: Performance = Build Quality = Battery Life

I need a laptop with good performance that will get me through college, solid build quality so it lasts longer, and a good battery life so I can work for extended periods without charging.

.Weight and thinness: I don't want my laptop to be as bulky as a gaming laptop, but I don't mind the thinness. I also want it to be sturdy enough to open with one hand, like those fancy laptops ;)

.Preferred screen size: At least 14 inches or larger.

.Applications: I want my laptop to be able to run Photoshop, Lightroom, VS Code and similar software with ease. I also play valorant sometimes and don't need crazy high FPS, around 80-150 on low or medium settings would be great.

I want my laptop to have reliable build quality that will last for most of my school and college years. I also want a good keyboard and touchpad. I DO NOT want a touch screen, as I know laptops with touch screens or 2 in 1s cost a lot more. However, a fingerprint reader and optical drive would be great. Also, a graphics card would be awesome, but only if it's within the budget.

Hello, just want to ask for opinions since this is my first time buying such an expensive laptop. Since a PC wont suit me because I’m always traveling.

I need a laptop that can handle heavy works. Will be using AutoCAD, SketchUP, and similar apps and also office works. Thank you in advance!!

**Laptop available here in the Philippines please, thank you!

A user suggested to post this here because I’ll get a detailed information hehe.

Hey everyone,

LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE

• Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US: 800€ maximum but 500€ with used/refurbished state would be better
• Are you open to refurbs/used? Yes.
• How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life? I need performance to do my job, a good battery life ( around 4-5h in use should be OK )
• How important is weight and thinness to you? Not really important
• Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A. 14" but could be more
• Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run. I want to run VSCode, multiples browser tabs, Discord, Youtube, a live-server for backend/frontend, maybe a small local DB.
• If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want? No, only work
• Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)? USB-C for an portable display, a good quality screen ( atleast 300 nits 72% sRGB ) but more is better
• Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion. 16 or 32gb RAM is okay, need to be compatible with Ubuntu/Xubuntu

LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE

• Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US: Budget is up to 40K PHP, Location is Philippines
• Are you open to refurbs/used? Yes, but preferably brand new
• How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life? I just need something that performs well while coding and working on heavy tasks like having multiple tabs open. Good battery life is a big plus too.
• How important is weight and thinness to you? Not super important.
• Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A. Would prefer those screens from 15.6 inch laptops
• Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run. I edit photos, but not always, and not too much. I would like to run VS Code, Photoshop, and other programming-related programs.
• If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want? None
• Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)? I prefer keyboards with numeric keypad.
• Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion. I am looking at this model laptop, and would like to know if this is good also:

Model Acer TravelMate P2 TMP216-51-73Z8

Processor Intel Core i7 1355U (Up to 5GHz, 12MB Smart Cache)

Memory 16GB DDR4 RAM (Upgradeable up to 32GC RAM capacity)

Storage 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD

Graphics Intel UHD Graphics

Display 15.6 in IPS Display with Full HD1920 x 1080 resolution

Operating System Windows 11 Home Single Language

Thank you!

LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE Country: Singapore

• Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase.:

1000SGD

• Are you open to refurbs/used?

Yes

• How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life?

Build quality>battery life>performance Id like it not to malfunction or need servicing after a year, and a secentky ling battery life

• How important is weight and thinness to you?

Durability is most important. I dont care about thinness and heaviness. It shouldnt look or feel like it would break if i dropped it.

• Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A.

N/A

• Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run.

N/A

• If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want?

N/A

• Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)?

Durable keyboard. Reliable build quality. Touchscreen doesnt matter.

• Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion.

Good ram , 16gb

Grad student in the US here, thinking about buying a laptop before tariffs start having an effect on prices. Already have a model in mind (Lenovo T14), but would love more thoughts!

• Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US: preferably under $1000 USD, can go up to $1200-1300
• Are you open to refurbs/used? Yes
• How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life? Good battery life (5+ hours) and not prone to hardware failures (esp chassis breaking or keyboard malfunctioning)
• How important is weight and thinness to you? Durability's most important - will lug around a brick of a laptop if it can survive the apocalypse
• Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A. 14-16 inch ideally
• Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run. No gaming, occasionally use Canva/similar programs, maybe uTorrent eventually
• If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want? nah
• Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)? My current laptop (IdeaPad 5) has had to have the keyboard, chassis, battery, and motherboard replaced over the course of 4 years, so now I'm looking for something sturdy and long-lasting
• Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion.

I'm currently thinking about a Lenovo T14 ThinkPad. This Gen 4 with an AMD Ryzen Processor looked pretty decent to me:

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadt/thinkpad-t14s-gen-4-14-inch-amd/len101t0080#tech_specs

I can get the memory up to 32GB and the SSD to 1TB and still have the total price be around $1100, which is not too bad (again, grad student budget). I'm also considering a T480 since they're highly recommended on the ThinkPad subreddit, but since they're a little older, T14 seems like a better choice - let me know if you have any tips/suggestions!

Budget : $2500 to maybe $3000

Country: US

Screen size: ~14" minimum, biggest 17"

Touch screen doesn't matter

Screen resolution: at least 1920x1080

Weight: not light/ultralight! It needs to have weight to it both for sensory reasons and because I need it to not flip around a ton when used propped on a knee etc. But I also need to be able to carry it around all day in a backpack with other stuff if needed so not super heavy either.

Thinness: not thin either (same reasons as weight above)

Battery life matters! I need to be able to get multiple hours (at the very least 4 hrs) use out of the battery, and for a long time i.e. won't become tethered to the power cord and outlet in the future. Being able to replace the battery alone in the future would be a big plus.

Preferably (certified) refurbished.

Uses: Primarily for everyday use as college student and researcher (and eventual grad student hopefully) including extensive multitasking and rarely restarting or turning off my laptop. I have literally hundreds of tabs open at all times (seriously, at least a 150 tabs organized across multiple windows) and also have some video streaming going on as well. I do research which involves programing and data analysis—sometimes through multiple programs at the same time—and often involves calculations of and/or plotting datasets hundreds of entries large. The laptop needs to be able to handle all of this for days at a time without lagging.

Specific Programs/environment I use: I use a Linux (Ubuntu) sub-environment (in a Windows global emvironment) for my coding/programming and use VS Code and Jupyter notebooks specifically. Will also soon be using LaTeX. Otherwise, I use chrome and Firefox a bunch as well as the spotify desktop app/program and Microsoft 365 suite.

Absolutely not Apple or HP, and needs to have a number pad.

Thanks in advance!

(Also, there were no flair options when I looked as I posted this so apologies about rule 4. If someone could help me then I'll flair this properly.)

I am an aspiring author who uses scrivener and also a mild PC gamer. On my current laptop I ran out of storage while playing Sims and a variety of other games on steam, and also the battery lasts about 10 minutes.

I am looking for a laptop that has enough storage and also the other good stuff you need for gaming (sorry I don’t know anything about laptops or what I need here!!!) and also a good keyboard and decent battery life.

I prefer windows and my budget would be ideally under $1000 but willing to go to $1500 for the right one.

• Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US:

$1000 AUD at maximum. Would much prefer under or around $800 (cheaper the better but I don't expect anything cheaper)

• Are you open to refurbs/used?

Yes, only if it is up to date

• How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life?

From high priority to low priority: Performance, form factor, build quality, battery life

• How important is weight and thinness to you?

Not at all

• Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A.

15.6 or bigger

• Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run.

Gaming. The most high end game I'll be playing is Detroit: Become human.

• If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want?

Detroit Become human at medium settings but low settings are ok too. All other games I want to play aren't as extensive as that. I also play Minecraft and have been wanting to try shaders but it's really not a priority. 60 fps would be nice.

• Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)?

I want a good CPU and dedicated graphics card. Something considered "high end" in that department but only "okay" in everything else, if something like that exists. Basically a good CPU, GPU, RAM, but that's it.

• Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion.

I don't give a crap about thinness or touch screen or anything like that, don't even care about battery life, I just want it to be able to run games smoothly.

• Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US: $500 USD. Located in Iowa, USA.
• Are you open to refurbs/used? Definitely used.... would like to find one 5-6 years old
• How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life? It lives on my AirDesk Stand. I take it to bed occasionally. I would like a 2 in 1 with touch screen but it's not a must. I currently have a Dell Precision M6800 that I am happy with, except that it will not run Windows 11.
• How important is weight and thinness to you? Not important
• Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A. Really want a 17" screen and at least 1920 resolution
• Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run. Maybe a little bit of CAD mainly sketchup.
• If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want? Definitely not a gamer. Firefox is the main thing I run.
• Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)? Touch screen, backlit keyboard, number pad is real nice. I do appreciate a well built computer.
• Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion.
• I am thinking about a Dell Precision 7740 or 7750. I did have a ASUS Vivobook model k1703z that I really liked but the screen was white in spots on startup black screen. It was so thin and light it was almost cheap. A phone was dropped on it and smashed the screen. I currently have a Dell Precision M6800 that I am happy with, except that it will not run Windows 11.

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, please lmk where to post if not here! Laptop Questionnaire below!

I'm looking for a laptop for my sister (30F) who has ASD presenting as Asperger’s Syndrome and an intellectual disability. While she doesn’t have specific technology-related triggers, she prefers to listen to her shows and music out loud rather than using headphones. Her current laptop is outdated and not user-friendly for her, so we want to invest in something that better suits her needs. Since her needs are different from mine, I’m feeling overwhelmed by the options and could really use some recommendations!

What is your budget?

• Flexible, but considering her needs are quite basic, we don’t need anything high-end. Looking to buy new.

What country will this be purchased in?

• Canada

What are the primary uses for this laptop?

• Watching shows/movies/YouTube
• Listening to music
• Making word searches in Excel
• General email and communication
• No gaming

Specific needs or preferences:

• OS: Windows (she's already familiar with it)
• Keyboard: Full keyboard with simple labels (includ. num pad)
• Screen Size: ~15-17” (large display preferred)
• Audio: Decent built-in speakers
• Battery Life: Good battery performance
• TV Connectivity: Easy connection to a Phillips/Roku TV (we don't have streaming services, so casting options are ideal)
• Phone Connectivity: Should work well with Google Pixel 8A
• Touchscreen Avoidance: No touchscreen (she tends to be rough with them)
• Durability: Needs to handle slightly greater-than-average clumsiness

Her current laptop is outdated and not user-friendly for her needs, so please suggest any other accessibility features that might be useful for her or specific models that might be meet these needs. Thanks so much!

Hey guys,

My gaming laptop has gone kaput recently and I'm thinking of replacing it with a handheld of some flavour (instead of dropping $1500+ for a gaming machine), however I'm not well versed in handheld specs and opinions on various forums and other sources swing wildly in favour of one handheld or the other. I was hoping y'all could help!

Here are the games I play regularly, or would like to play on my console:

• Helldivers 2
• Halo MCC
• Minecraft
• AoE III
• Sins of a Solar Empire 2
• Stronghold Crusader HD (because nostalgia)
• Destiny 2
• Elden Ring

I've been considering the following consoles (however if you have recommendations I would love to hear them!)

Steam Deck OLED 512GB

Pros:

• Low price ($550 new)
• Appears to run most of my games out of the box
• Lightweight steamOS
• Gorgeous OLED panel

Cons:

• Older hardware (I think?)
• Doesn't run Destiny 2
• I've been told it struggles with higher-end games

Rog Ally X

Pros:

• Powerful
• Base 1 TB storage
• Best internal specs of the bunch I've looked at (hopefully it runs what I need it to?)

Cons:

• Price ($800 new)
• Windows (?) I've heard the Asus handhelds struggle a bit

Legion Go

Pros:

• Larger screen
• Detachable controllers (are there accessories like for the switch?)
• Same processor as Ally X

Cons:

• Software issues, esp. w/ Windows.
• Still a bit pricey ($700)

Based on what I'm looking to play is there one of the three you'd recommend over the others, or is there a handheld I've not seen that might serve me better? For either of the Windows consoles, I'll probably end up flashing Bazzite, Steam Fork, or just straight up installing Steam OS once it becomes available.

Many thanks!

I've had this Alienware Aurora R7 since 2018 and while I had some good times with it, its a piece of shit now and its a nightmare to deal with so I said "fuck it, I'm upgrading to a new one." Mainly just the speed it runs at, and how it lags and freezes occasionally. Even when I clear up a lot of space. Its also a nightmare to clean out the dust.

I am looking for a PC with not only the best (just good will be fine) color accuracy and performance, but I am looking for a PC with good CPU and speed power. The speed is the biggest thing I have issue with. All the issues I listed are the problems people seem to have with Alienware. Any non-alienware pc or a brand that's perfect for switching from Alienware would be appreciated.

hi! i’m entering a bachelor of mechanical engineering this year, and was wondering what the best laptop would be that could run the appropriate programs?

being a mechanical engineering degree, these are the minimum requirements from the handbook:

Minimum PC requirements:

• 15.6" screen
• i7 processor
• 16GB RAM (32GB recommended)
• 512GB SSD (1TB SSD recommended due to the various large engineering programs)
• Dedicated graphics processor (Eg IntelIris Xe, NVIDIA GeForce GTX1650, NVIDIA GeForce RTX3050Ti.Integrated graphics processors, such as Intel UHD Graphics, are NOT recommended).
• Inbuilt camera and mic (Headset with boom mic recommended)

any information is greatly appreciated! thank you!

My boyfriend and I want to buy a new gaming PC and can't decide between a tower or laptop, and which one. To give some context, we have a PS5 but want to get a PC for other games. I play a lot of Sims and indie games and he plays more strategy games, starcraft 2, path of exile, and general steam games. We already have 2 nice monitors, gaming mouse and keyboard, so it's really just the computer itself that we are missing. However, if it's a desktop computer, we would have it in the basement, but it may be good to be able to use it in common areas so if one of us is playing, the other can be around, or if we are travelling.

We are currently thinking the ASUS ROG Zephyrus, but are wondering if a tower is a better investment and will be more future proof for gaming. Or if another laptop would be more ideal. We are also wondering if 16 gigs of RAM is enough / GPU suggestions.

Looking for new laptop. $200 to 300 budget

• **Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US:**200 to $300
• Are you open to refurbs/used? Yes.
• How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life? Performance
• How important is weight and thinness to you? Irrelevant.
• Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A. Larger would be better maybe 17 inch. Otherwise not that big a deal.
• Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run. Gaming, only Teamfight Tactics.
• If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want? No, if the game can run well its enough.
• Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)? No.
• Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion. It has to be by Amazon. A familiar its in USA, will be the one who buys it, and only manages to use that page.

LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE

• Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US: $1000-$2000 USD, US
• Are you open to refurbs/used? yes
• How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life? Battery life most important, good build quality because I'll be walking a lot with it in my backpack, really good performance
• How important is weight and thinness to you? Moderately important
• Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A. 14"-15" but am open to bigger if needed
• Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run. some gaming, but mostly programming and video editing and graphic design with Adobe Suite
• If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want? Red Dead Redemption 2, FPS and settings aren't really important to me. If I can run resource-intensive games, cool, if not, cool.
• Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)? Reliable build quality, good keyboard, touch pad not important since I typically use a mouse, 2 hard drive ports, prefer upgradeable RAM, dedicated GPU
• Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion. I need it to have two ports for drives because I need to dual boot Linux (for programming) & Windows (for Adobe Suite & my school's required apps that are Windows-only), and I don't want them to share a drive for easier maintenance & troubleshooting. I also would really like it to have upgradeable RAM or at least 32gb stock. I need it to have a dedicated GPU, not integrated graphics. I would prefer an AMD GPU, but it's not a deal breaker if the best choice doesn't have it. The VA is paying for this laptop and they are very strict in regards to gaming laptops, they are not allowed. So I need a business-type laptop. If they see 'gaming laptop' in the description, they are very likely to reject it. Prefer Amazon links, since that is the VA's preferred method. They will purchase it for me and have it sent to me. It also needs to be no more than 2 years old per my school's tech requirements for my program.

• Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US:$1100 USA
• **Are you open to refurbs/used?**Yes, if the battery life is absolutely still >10hrs.
• How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life?<2.7lbs, >10 hrs battery life with real use (web, PPT, word, excel), performance just needs to be enough to type, give presentations, and maybe do very minor indie games while waiting for a flight (fine with 2D games)
• **How important is weight and thinness to you?**extremely important
• **Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A.**13.5"-14.5" 16x10 or taller aspect ratio
• **Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run.**I'll not be doing anything strenuous on the laptop. I might play a very low-key game occasionally like Celeste or some other 2d pixelart game.
• **If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want?**Gaming is not a priority for this purchase.
• **Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)?**I'd like a good keyboard and trackpad
• **Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion.**I'd like to avoid Apple unless there's nothing else at all close to what I'm looking for. I'd like at least 3 USB ports and for at least one of them to be type A.

• Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US: 300 USD
• Are you open to refurbs/used? Yes 100%
• How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life? Battery Life of at least 5 hours -> Performance
• How important is weight and thinness to you? Lighter is nice, but I don't need ultra slim. I used an XPS 15 through college a decade+ ago. It was on the heavier end, but I'm fine with that weight or lower.
• Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A. N/A
• Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run. VM horizon will be the most used thing for work.
• If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want? nothing bigger than idle games. I have a desktop for gaming.
• Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)? Numberpad required. USB-C charger (if possible, I hate juggling different chargers). EDITING TO ADD: Bright enough to view outdoors during summer. (will be working outdoors about 3 hours daily during summer time)
• Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion. I swear there was a website that had refurbished laptops for sale for like 200-300 dollars off.

EDITED: Added brightness to requirements :) Great reminder.

• Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US: $300 to $1000 USD
• Are you open to refurbs/used? No.
• How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life? Performance
• How important is weight and thinness to you? Irrelevant. Using mostly for home use.
• Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A. Larger would be better maybe 17 inch. Otherwise not that big a deal.
• Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run. Gaming with usual Steam and Epic clients.
• If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want? Off the top of my head: Fortnite. Honestly not too partial. I have modern consoles for the really taxing software.
• Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)? would prefer Micro SD slot. as well as Mv2 port an addition SSD if base storage isn't great.
• Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion. I'm replacing a seven year old Powerspec 1510. I'm looking for something fairly budget that can handle Last gen games with relative ease. The laptop will spend most of its time as a quasi desktop. If you're asking why not just get a desk top, I lack the space in my current living environment. Currently eying the Nirto V 15 or Nitro 17. But the Nitros 512 internal SSD is deterring me a bit. Would love a base 1tb SSD.

• LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE
• **Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US: $**2000-4000 USD United States
• Are you open to refurbs/used? Does not work for my use case
• How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life? Good build quality, performance and battery life. I need to be able to manipulate large datasets and do some cad. I very much want to be able to repair and upgrade it myself
• How important is weight and thinness to you? a negative amount, i daily drive a toughbook cf-31
• Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A. N/A
• Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run. CAD, Database softwares, some light gaming
• If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want? light gaming, I would like to be able to run a game like baldur's gate 3 at "playable"
• Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)? As much IO as possible, reliable build quality, repairable and upgradeable
• **Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion.**My dream laptop would be something like the panasonic fz-55 but with better specs, a socketed cpu and an upgradeable gpu.

LENOVO V15 G3 IAP 82TT00A4TX Intel Core i3-1215U 16GB 512GB SSD 15.6" TN FreeDos for $290

Lenovo site: https://psref.lenovo.com/Detail/Lenovo_V15_G3_IAP?M=82TT00A4TX

I will use it for university work and very basic gaming. My budget is 300$.
Is TN panel really that bad? I have a gaming pc but I need a mobile one

I'm looking for my next machine to replace the Tuxedo Stellaris 15 that I inherited from the predecessor. The performance is great but battery life abysmal and build quality doesn't impress. I do data science and backend development with locally running instances so performance is paramount, but I'm fairly mobile so battery life and portability are also important. I will be installing a Linux distro on the laptop. The budget is practically unlimited.

I do also do a bit of design work from time to time, which a touchscreen with a stylus would really help, but I don't want to compromise on the other features for this.

I would rank my priorities as follows:

1. Durability/UX
2. Battery life
3. Performance
4. Touchscreen + stylus

So far on my list of options are the Dell XPS series, Thinkpad T/X series and the Framework laptop, but I'm having a hard time deciding and probably overlooking some other options. Would love to hear your picks for a portable balls-to-the-wall Linux-running productivity laptop.

Edit: and here is the form that the bot helpfully reminded me to fill out:

LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE

Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US:

∞

Are you open to refurbs/used?

Sure, though probably not relevant given the budget.

How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life?

See main text

How important is weight and thinness to you?

Portability is quite important

Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A.

14 or 15 inch

Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run.

No

If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want?

-

Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)?

Build quality paramount, appreciate a good keyboard, touchscreen would be a nice-to-have

Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion.

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Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US:

$2200 USD, USA

Are you open to refurbs/used?

no

How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life?

performance battery build form

How important is weight and thinness to you?

5/10

Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A.

15-16"

Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run.

premiere pro and davinci resolve

If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want?

n/a

Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)?

would like touch screen and fingerprint but not a requirement

Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion.

would like at least 1 tb storage and 32 gb ram and a decent graphics card

LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE*

• Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US:

500-1000 USD. I'm willing to spend more, but since I'm a student that's kind of asking a lot.

• Are you open to refurbs/used?

I'd love something previously used.

• How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life?

I'm a dimwit when it comes to computers. I just need something that has enough storage for lots of school work.

• How important is weight and thinness to you?

Not very. I just need something that can become a tablet so if the weight gets in the way it's a no go.

• Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A.

N/A

• Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run.

I just need something that can run lots of 3d imaging for anatomy and store a ton of Anki flash decks.

• If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want?

N/A

• Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)?

I'd love for it to come with a stylus lol.

• Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion.

Like mentioned, I need it for medical school for notes and storing 3d models. Anki flash cards take a ton of storage so something that is compatible would be great.

LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE

• Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US:

3000000 kyats (around 1500 usd)

• Are you open to refurbs/used?

Yes if good quality.

• How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life?

Medium priority.

• How important is weight and thinness to you?

Prefer medium size and weight.

• Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A.

N/A.

• Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run.

Mostly for gaming ( rts games, fighting games, and rpg games )

• If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want?

Brood war, aoe 2, warcraft 3, sf 6, vf5 revo, wow, Bg3. I want to be able to run them at medium settings and more than 60 fps (for the rts) and 60 fps (for the others).

• Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)?

The laptop should be durable and easy to repair. Also have good cooling system.

• **Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion . I also want to run a browser in the background to listen to music while gaming (a tab or two is enough), discord. Feel free to join our Discord server at: https://discordapp.com/invite/pes68JM for a faster response!

• Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US:

$400 USD

• Are you open to refurbs/used?

Yes.

• How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life?

At least better than what I currently have. Better performance/speed, and good battery life.

• How important is weight and thinness to you?

Would prefer to be on the lighter/thinner side, but willing to compromise some.

• Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A.

15.6”

• Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run.

Basic Photoshop, Blender (No massive projects), Unity/Small scale game dev, VS Code, Notion, Figma. (Usually have at least 3 of these running at the same time to work on a project).

• If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want?

Not planning on gaming.

• Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)?

- Decent keyboard

- Touchscreen would be nice, but not a deal breaker

- Reliable build quality is necessary.

- Fingerprint reader

• Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion.

My current laptop only has 8GB RAM, & 256 GB, which isn't enough.

Edit: It MUST have 2+ HDMI ports or 1HDMI with a C port capable of extending two monitors.

I'm pretty sure I want to buy the Lenovo Yoga i7 Aura Edition or a Asus Zenbook S14 but the price for the yoga i7 aura edition is a lot more attractive. I want 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. Now what i have seen is that on the Lenovo Website the Aura Edition Gen 9 is a tad bit more expensive than the Gen10 what confuses me. I saw the difference is that Gen 10 is 14 inches and Gen 9 15 inches (why tho?). Also the Gen 9 has a Touchscreen and Gen 10 does not. Now should I buy the Gen 9 that has a 15 Inch screen (i prefer) and Touchscreen or is there something i'm missing with the Gen 10 version, cause normally I would always buy a newer version if it was the same price or even cheaper but here I only see downsides going gen 10.

LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE

• Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US:-fill here, remove dashes- £1500 - £1800
• Are you open to refurbs/used?- Happy for refurbs but not second hand if that makes sense?
• How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life? Build quality, I need something somewhat professional looking, not screaming I'm a gaming laptop. Probablly not a 2 in 1 / touchscreen.
• How important is weight and thinness to you? Ideally portable I don't mind a little weight but thinness without too much thermal compromise. I need somewhat professional looking
• Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A. Probably no bigger than 16. I am happy with smaller screens and have exernal monitors if I need bigger screen for more detailed building plans. 14/15 would be ideal.
• Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run. AutoCad / Sketch up / Revit as I am going to be working on and updating building plans as part of my new role and surveying course. As it will be my personal laptop as well I will probably do a little bit of gaming on it. even if it is streaming it to the steam deck.
• If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want? When I get some down time from the 1year old I sneak in some Civ 6, Baldurs gate 3. I am hoping to get back into Arma Reforger at somepoint. I do play a lot of older games which have lower requirements.
• Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)? No real special requirements here. Just a good build quality
• Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion. This will be my main device for the next 5 years I imagine (presuming nothing breaks etc or a toddler doesn't manage to get their hand on it) so something that can survive would also be handy.