Hi, I am about to start college in August. Do not currently have a laptop. Looking at a 1000$-1500$ laptop to last me a while I have had many cheap laptops fail me recently. I do not want to make compromises. I have been eyeing the XPS lineup, and I know they are amazing, but I feel like I can get a bit more for money elsewhere. I have also looked at some of the Zenbook lineup, and a few Samsung laptops and I am having a very hard time deciding. Also wondering if I should wait a month or two for next gen chips in laptops (12th gen Intel, 6th OR 7th gen AMD).
Requirements I can think of at the moment:
- LONG battery life in realistic use case scenario
- 16 gb ram (maybe I'll settle for 12, but absolutely not 8)
- at least 6 core CPU
- not too heavy, large, or thick (under 3 lb, 15.6 in)
- EXCEPTIONAL build quality and busy life future proofing, so basically not weak and thin pot aluminum (looking at you HP)
- good brightness, don't wanna have to close the curtains and change chairs to use this thing
Please any suggestions or thoughts would be awesome! I'm lost there are so many amazing laptops these days.