Need help with University laptop

[Legomansk]

Hello everyone, I am looking for suggestions for a laptop for university. I have a budget of $1800 CAD. Its gotta have a solid battery life. It's gonna be used for some light gaming, AutoCAD, taking notes, and movies. Thanks!

[genexis_x]

51 minutes ago, Legomansk said:

solid battery life

Min how many hours? Any preference on weight and display size? Mind low sRGB display and non-upgradeable RAM?

[Madgemade]

I personally would look for a used workstation style laptop. Something like a Dell Precision. These always come with Quadros which could be useful for CAD driver support. I don't think that $1800 CAD would be enough to get anything workstation new, would be enough for a mid range gaming laptop.

Edit: I had a look and there doesn't seem to be much availability of these laptops on the Canadian used market. Lots in USA though (to be expected).

[Super Spartan]

4 hours ago, Legomansk said:

Hello everyone, I am looking for suggestions for a laptop for university. I have a budget of $1800 CAD. Its gotta have a solid battery life. It's gonna be used for some light gaming, AutoCAD, taking notes, and movies. Thanks!

Dell XPS 15 would be my choice. Super thin laptop with great performance, solid build quality, and superb battery life. You need to re-paste it with liquid metal though if you want to keep the temps under control as any thin and light laptop would overheat.

 

If you're not comfortable repasting yourself, you can order it form HIDevolution who ship internationally and choose "Thermal Grizzly conductonaut + fuijipoly extreme thermal pads" in the laptop configurator and have them do it for you professionally and still covered under warranty.

 

Or better yet, have a look at the MSI workstation laptops, they have Quadro GPUs which are more suited towards CAD and development apps.

 

See:

MSI 15 inch workstation laptops

Dell XPS 15