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Hi, i'm looking for a laptop recommendation which is less than or around $1200 CDN.

Mostly gonna use it for word and excel documents - I need a number pad.

Very little gaming on side - i usually don't play any demanding titles.

i don't want a hdd, if it comes with one can i swap it out for ssd without loosing  OS.

Thank you.

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31 minutes ago, kann said:

$1200 CDN

Any preference on weight, battery life, display quality and display size? Can accept external numpad?

Desktop specs:

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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3 minutes ago, GeneXiS_X said:

Any preference on weight, battery life, display quality and display size? Can accept external numpad?

Not too heavy need to carry it 3-4 days a week, prohibited to use external numpad. display quality around 1080p is good enough. A lot of typing so preferably a normal keyboard. everything else doesn't matter as much.

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4 minutes ago, kann said:

Not too heavy

Max weight in kg/lbs?

4 minutes ago, kann said:

display quality around 1080p is good enough

Must have good sRGB? Or low sRGB is fine?

 

So confirm no preference on battery life? Also, you want a good keyboard?

Desktop specs:

Spoiler

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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3 minutes ago, GeneXiS_X said:

Max weight in kg/lbs?

Must have good sRGB? Or low sRGB is fine?

 

So confirm no preference on battery life? Also, you want a good keyboard?

weight max about 5 lbs

low sRGB is fine mostly gonna watch you tube videos dont need sRGB for office documents lol.

keybord that is comfortable to type not too squished together, in my preference anything better than mac is good.

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Lenovo Thinkpad T580 +SSD (manual upgrade)

Lenovo Thinkpad L580 20LW000MUS

Lenovo Thinkpad E580 +RAM+SSD (manual upgrade)

HP Envy x360 15-cn0008ca

Acer Swift 3 15 SF315-52-87R5 / SF315-52G-56M7 (dGPU)

Acer Swift 3 15 SF315-51-57HU

Acer Aspire 5 15 A515-51G-5718

 

Smaller battery/poor battery life:

HP Envy x360 15-cp0008ca +SSD

HP Pavilion 15-cs0010ca / 15-cs0020ca / 15-cs0053cl (or any 15-cs models) +SSD

Lenovo Thinkpad E585 +SSD (manual upgrade)

 

All have low sRGB FHD IPS

Desktop specs:

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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