Recommendations for a new laptop

[AlanAlan]

No touchscreen but it has an i5 and 940m would handle most tasks well and some light gaming under budget aswell and have seen it go a little lower recently in price

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834315131&ignorebbr=1&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC-_-pla-_-Notebooks-_-N82E16834315131&gclid=Cj0KEQiAqemzBRDh2vGKmMnqoegBEiQAqJPuyB7KnUjjbPUIz3JCxGzXmHdDwnZYMzqCZOj-5C9NhAoaAopw8P8HAQ

When was this laptop released?

[michaelocarroll007]

When was this laptop released?

I dont know when it was realeased if the laptop looks good to you, you should probably look into any questions you have about. but it has the newest GPU nividia makes and the CPU isnt too old its 5th Gen which isnt the newest but not a big difference from a 6th gen and 6th gen hasnt been out long at all. 

[AlanAlan]

I am looking a for a laptop that can stream video, word proccess, and browse the web with no lag.

Optional features i would like to have

1080p screen with touch

1tb hard drive

8gb ram

[don_svetlio]

Avoid Asus, HP and Acer at that price point

[DarkBlade2117]

Avoid Asus, HP and Acer at that price point

Why Asus, I know for a fact they have a laptop at that price point with everything.

[MacAlisterL]

Lenovo Flex 2-15

[MacAlisterL]

Lenovo Flex 2-15

http://portablepicker.com/part/lenovo-laptop-59418271

[AlanAlan]

Why Asus, I know for a fact they have a laptop at that price point with everything.

Avoid Asus, HP and Acer at that price point

What about dell?

[GoodBytes]

What about dell?

Avoid Dell at that price too. Basically... expect a shit system at this price point.

You want a quality system from Dell, one that will confidently last you a nice 3 years, and more with good care: XPS series. You want more ruggednesses and don't care about style (and fancy specs), look at the Latitude series, but those, like the XPS series is above your price point.

Same for Lenovo, expect always on fan, cheapo quality, and all the whole set.

Basically, expect a system full of junk pre-installed, really poor build quality, bad keyboard, difficult to service, bad support, bad to horrible battery life, and will probably last 2 years with good care. Dell will probably give you the best after sale service/warranty service if anything amongst all the other companies. But that doesn't mean much. Only because you have the higher end XPS line that uses the same home service, so people buying the XPS pays more for that better service. If you really want good service, then you need to jump to business line systems, or Apple, or Microsoft (especially if there is a MS store near you).

[AlanAlan]

Avoid Dell at that price too. Basically... expect a shit system at this price point.You want a quality system from Dell, one that will confidently last you a nice 3 years, and more with good care: XPS series. You want more ruggednesses and don't care about style (and fancy specs), look at the Latitude series, but those, like the XPS series is above your price point.Same for Lenovo, expect always on fan, cheapo quality, and all the whole set.Basically, expect a system full of junk pre-installed, really poor build quality, bad keyboard, difficult to service, bad support, bad to horrible battery life, and will probably last 2 years with good care. Dell will probably give you the best after sale service/warranty service if anything amongst all the other companies. But that doesn't mean much. Only because you have the higher end XPS line that uses the same home service, so people buying the XPS pays more for that better service. If you really want good service, then you need to jump to business line systems, or Apple, or Microsoft (especially if there is a MS store near you).

What's the brand to go for?

[don_svetlio]

Avoid Dell at that price too. Basically... expect a shit system at this price point.

You want a quality system from Dell, one that will confidently last you a nice 3 years, and more with good care: XPS series. You want more ruggednesses and don't care about style (and fancy specs), look at the Latitude series, but those, like the XPS series is above your price point.

Same for Lenovo, expect always on fan, cheapo quality, and all the whole set.

Basically, expect a system full of junk pre-installed, really poor build quality, bad keyboard, difficult to service, bad support, bad to horrible battery life, and will probably last 2 years with good care. Dell will probably give you the best after sale service/warranty service if anything amongst all the other companies. But that doesn't mean much. Only because you have the higher end XPS line that uses the same home service, so people buying the XPS pays more for that better service. If you really want good service, then you need to jump to business line systems, or Apple, or Microsoft (especially if there is a MS store near you).

The cheaper ones yes but Y series and ThinkPads are good.

[AlanAlan]

I want a laptop that can stream video and word process. Some feature I want it to have is 8gb of ram and a 1 tb hard drive and a good processor.

[don_svetlio]

2nd hand ThinkPad

[AlanAlan]

2nd hand ThinkPad

 

what a good laptop that is new.

[AlanAlan]

2nd hand ThinkPad

 

Some people say that Lenovo products spy and track people and they put bad software on there devices

[don_svetlio]

Some people say that Lenovo products spy and track people and they put bad software on there devices

People also say fapping causes blindness. Don't believe everything you see on the internet. What you are talking about is the superfish plug-in which is only present on OEM OSes - just install Windows on your own and you're golden.

 

what a good laptop that is new.

Every laptop in that price range is absolute garbage

[AlanAlan]

People also say fapping causes blindness. Don't believe everything you see on the internet. What you are talking about is the superfish plug-in which is only present on OEM OSes - just install Windows on your own and you're golden.

 

Every laptop in that price range is absolute garbage

what are some features I should look for?

[don_svetlio]

what are some features I should look for?

Nothing. At 600$ buying anything decent is next to impossible.

I'd strongly suggest either going for a ThinkPad and adding an SSD if all you want to do is work or if you want to game as well stretch to a Lenovo Y40 or Asus N550JK or X550JK

[AlanAlan]

Nothing. At 600$ buying anything decent is next to impossible.

I'd strongly suggest either going for a ThinkPad and adding an SSD if all you want to do is work or if you want to game as well stretch to a Lenovo Y40 or Asus N550JK or X550JK

can I install windows on a external ssd and boot it off that?

[don_svetlio]

can I install windows on a external ssd and boot it off that?

Technically yes but you need a proper USB 3.0 port and those aren't available on cheap laptops.

[AlanAlan]

http://www.amazon.com/HP-i7-6700HQ-Quad-Core-Processor-Touchscreen/dp/B018YIGHVK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1451507790&sr=8-2&keywords=6th+Gen+Skylake+Intel+Core+i7

Can this computer run Microsoft word, stream videos, and browse the web smoothly ?

Can anyone give thoughts on this machine.

If there is a better choice than this machine can I get a link?

Thank you guys so much!

[Axeonelite]

That would be more than enough for you needs if it's in your budget

 

Only advice I could give is you could probably find something cheaper is you lose some hard drive space and the touch screen (not sure how important those are to you) 

[_JohnB330ci]

It will work fine, as for better machines, not sure, don't use laptops

[AlanAlan]

It will work fine, as for better machines, not sure, don't use laptops

That would be more than enough for you needs if it's in your budget

 

Only advice I could give is you could probably find something cheaper is you lose some hard drive space and the touch screen (not sure how important those are to you)

Should I go for it?

Is there any better choices?

[Aleksbgbg]

Not even sure it can run minesweepper at low settings.

 

Jk, that's a nice CPU but totally overkill as it seems it has no dedicated graphics (prob. why it has a HQ i7).

 

I would suggest going for an i3/i5 as it will do the same for a lot cheaper.

 

Note:

Not sure if you are into building PCs, but if you built your own, for that money you could even game on it.