So, I currently own an Acer Nitro 5 from 2018, it's rocking an i5-8300H and a GTX 1050 inside. I made some personal upgrades due to my university course and personal needs. I upgraded the ram to 16 GB and changed the 1TB HDD to a 1TB SSD. Even though I upgraded a few things, there are still things I can no longer deal with. The first one being the puny battery life, and the second is thermal. Normal laptop usage in just writing in Microsoft word and just watching YouTube videos, this laptop barely last 4-5 hours. I always have to constantly deal with bringing a charger with the already heavy laptop, which both weighs around a total of 3.5 kg. The thermal on the other hand, I just took my laptop for a cleaning in a computer store as I lack the tools to do so myself. Even after the cleaning, while doing some light internet browsing and watching YouTube videos, its hottest core temperature is still 88 degrees Celsius.
I wanna find a new laptop just for university work. I mainly code and deal with some somewhat large data sets. I use PyCharm, intelliJ, and R studio. I don't intend to game on this laptop and the main things I want in this laptop is for it to be light, have a longer battery life, and not thermal throttle. I was hoping you guys could recommend me a laptop that is around a thousand USD with what I mentioned. I'm currently looking at the Acer Swift 5 but I am wondering if there are any better offerings that you guys can recommend me such as 6 core Ryzen at this price point. I wanna remain optimistic for what I can find at this price point without going into XPS level. Hope you can help me out, thanks in advance.