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Hi guys, I'm gonna be buying a laptop soon for school and just personal stuff like watching videos, browsing internet, and maybe some light gaming. I'm wondering what the best laptop is right now for around $1300. Any help will be appreciated! Thank You.

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Hi guys, I'm gonna be buying a laptop soon for school and just personal stuff like watching videos, browsing internet, and maybe some light gaming. I'm wondering what the best laptop is right now for around $1300. Any help will be appreciated! Thank You.

Acer Aspire s7 392

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That's what I was looking at aswell.

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The Aspire S7 is a very nice choice, I don't know when the new wave of laptops/ultrabooks are coming out, but they might be coming out soon so you could wait a bit longer and see if anything else comes up between now and the date that you're going to buy that laptop.

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I'd wait for the ASUS Transformer Book Duet TD300. That shit's crazy. An i7 ultrabook running Windows 8 Pro with 4GB of ram that turns into a Windows 8 tablet (still running the same specs), and with a click of a button turns into an Android tablet (STILL RUNNING A FUCKING i7!!!!!!), and you can just clip it back onto the keyboard and it becomes an Android laptop. But WAIT, there's MOAR. Its starting price is only $600.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'd go for that to be honest. 

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I'm particularly partial to the Thinkpad Yoga or the Ideapad Yoga 2 Pro. Both are excellent machines (not the best hardware, but great for power users sans gaming). 

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I'm particularly partial to the Thinkpad Yoga or the Ideapad Yoga 2 Pro. Both are excellent machines (not the best hardware, but great for power users sans gaming).

Agreed, Lenovo make great machines an I believe there customer support is hood too.

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I'm more interested in these notebooks coming out with SLI graphics and wondering how they've kept them cool and sustainable

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Acer s7 is an extremely nice laptop, I've looked at getting one for college but thought that upgrading my PC would be more productive (: Really quite durable as well.

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Asus s7 is an extremely nice laptop, I've looked at getting one for college but thought that upgrading my PC would be more productive (: Really quite durable as well.

the S7 is by Acer not ASUS

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gigabyte u24 f its excellent 1300$ 120 gb ssd 750 gb hdd (in an ultrabook form factor) nvidia 750m 2gb intel core i7 4500u (1.8 Turbo of 3.0 ghz) backlit keys and its awesome! bu you could also get the u24t the one i have same specs but instead of a 1600 x 900 screen it has a 1366 x 768 touch screen but its 100 $ more.

 

 

 

http://www.excaliberpc.com/627970/gigabyte-u24f-cf1-14-ultrabook.html

 

 

 

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http://www.excaliberpc.com/627968/gigabyte-u24t-cf1-14-touch-ultrabook.html

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the S7 is by Acer not ASUS

Sorry, was on mobile and auto corrected,

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Hey,

 

I've been wanting to buy a laptop myself for a year now and have looked at nearly every interesting one out there. The main thing you don't specify is what type of laptop you want. Are you looking for thin and light, or heavy and fast. do you want a 13.3, 14, 15.6 or even 17 inch screen. Do you want 1080p or higher?

 

And you stated you wanted to do some light gaming, but how light are we talking about? Anything an intel HD4400 can handle, or do you want dedicated graphics?

 

Just let me know and hopefully I can help :)

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