I need a portable laptop.

[Darylxx]

Hi I just bough a laptop for working but it has nvidia 1650 and drains out battery too fast.

 

I work on coding for about 12-16 hours a day, can you recommend me a laptop with long battery life and may be small and easy to carry with(but not neccessary)

 

It doesnt have to be a powerful laptop with powerful gpu or with high resolution screen. I just need it for coding.

[TheGlenlivet]

6 minutes ago, Darylxx said:

Hi I just bough a laptop for working but it has nvidia 1650 and drains out battery too fast.

 

I work on coding for about 12-16 hours a day, can you recommend me a laptop with long battery life and may be small and easy to carry with(but not neccessary)

 

It doesnt have to be a powerful laptop with powerful gpu or with high resolution screen. I just need it for coding.

What do you want to spend and what brands do you like?

https://www.laptopmag.com/benchmarks/battery-life

 

[Darylxx]

2 minutes ago, TheGlenlivet said:

What do you want to spend and what brands do you like?

https://www.laptopmag.com/benchmarks/battery-life

 

I only have 1500, I need balance between weight and battery. Computer power doesnt matter.

[TheGlenlivet]

On that list, there are a lot good choices with GREAT batteries.  It just depends what you like the best.

[Turtle Rig]

21 minutes ago, Darylxx said:

Hi I just bough a laptop for working but it has nvidia 1650 and drains out battery too fast.

 

I work on coding for about 12-16 hours a day, can you recommend me a laptop with long battery life and may be small and easy to carry with(but not neccessary)

 

It doesnt have to be a powerful laptop with powerful gpu or with high resolution screen. I just need it for coding.

Maybe you should look at the Surface line so its super portable and will do all your tasks and internet and all that jazz and what not.

[NeuesTestament]

3 hours ago, Turtle Rig said:

Maybe you should look at the Surface line so its super portable and will do all your tasks and internet and all that jazz and what not.

They charge quite a premium over other manufactures though. I think the Surface Pro is a decent option if you are into that form factor but apart from that, I wouldn't buy a surface line device.

[Fr0st_P1xel]

I have been using my Surface Pro 6 since the release day and it has been great! The display is one of the best you can get in this form factor, the pen support is also up there with decent front and rear cameras for a laptop. The battery lasts me around 9 hours of school work involving mostly MS Word, coding and browsing. I keep a lot of stuff open in the background so maybe you can extend that to 10 - 12 hours if you only code while on battery saver.

 

If you decide to get the surface, go for the Pro since the form factor is great and in case you wanna draw it helps a lot. Wait for the Microsoft event on 2nd October.

My only issue with this is that its not that powerful and starts to get sluggish with too many things open. I guess it has to do with my model being an i5 with 8GB ram. 16GB ram should fix it and of course no type-C which we might get this year.

 

Final thoughts, even though the surface is a great device, I'd say also checkout other options like HP, Lenovo or Dell at that price point.

[Darylxx]

On 9/28/2019 at 9:57 AM, Fr0st_P1xel said:

I have been using my Surface Pro 6 since the release day and it has been great! The display is one of the best you can get in this form factor, the pen support is also up there with decent front and rear cameras for a laptop. The battery lasts me around 9 hours of school work involving mostly MS Word, coding and browsing. I keep a lot of stuff open in the background so maybe you can extend that to 10 - 12 hours if you only code while on battery saver.

 

If you decide to get the surface, go for the Pro since the form factor is great and in case you wanna draw it helps a lot. Wait for the Microsoft event on 2nd October.

My only issue with this is that its not that powerful and starts to get sluggish with too many things open. I guess it has to do with my model being an i5 with 8GB ram. 16GB ram should fix it and of course no type-C which we might get this year.

 

Final thoughts, even though the surface is a great device, I'd say also checkout other options like HP, Lenovo or Dell at that price point.

Hi, thanks for the recommendation but apparently I just purchased Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 7 as people say the keyboard is dope.

 

I dont know how this will turn out but I'm satisfied with my purchase anyway because  I just got a huge discount coupon from newsletter.