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Happy new year!, 

 

My current laptop is getting pretty old (7 years, second-hand) and I'm looking for a new one. 

 

Will be carrying to and from school most days so portability and battery life are important. Will be using for school work, photo and video editing, programming, gaming, etc. I was thinking min specs: Intel 8th Gen Core i7/equivalent AMD chip, 16GB of RAM, 512GB SSD. 

 

The less expensive the better :)

 

Any suggestions? 

 

Thanks! 

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Happy new year!

 

Budget? Preferred max weight and min battery life?

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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11 hours ago, genexis_x said:

Happy new year!

 

Budget? Preferred max weight and min battery life?

Hello,

 

Budget: $1000-1300 Canadian

Battery: 7-8 hours minimum, standard use (ie. Google docs, YouTube) 

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portability and battery life are important

school work, photo and video editing, programming, gaming

Intel 8th Gen Core i7/equivalent AMD chip, 16GB of RAM, 512GB SSD

Budget: $1000-1300 Canadian less expensive better

min 7 hrs

May I know what games do you play? Need dGPU/decent iGPU?

 

Also, need high sRGB display? Mind soldered RAM?

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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14 hours ago, genexis_x said:

May I know what games do you play? Need dGPU/decent iGPU?

 

Also, need high sRGB display? Mind soldered RAM?

Games: Minecraft, Xonotic, Dota 2, Team Fortress 2, BRAIN/OUT, No more room in hell, star conflict, really just free stuff.

 

Decent graphics would be good for photo/video editing, gaming.

 

I don't think I need a high sRGB display...

 

I don't mind soldered RAM, I probably won't be upgrading it. 

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Sorted from best to OK

 

MX150/MX250 25W:

Asus UX533FN-RH54: 8GB soldered RAM

Acer Swift 3 SF315-52G-56M7

Acer Aspire 5 A515-54G-73WC

 

Vega iGPU:

Lenovo Thinkpad T495 20NJ0001US / 20NJ0002US / 20NJ0006US / customize

Lenovo Thinkpad E495 customize

Lenovo Ideapad S540-14API 81NH008YCF / 81NH0058US

Lenovo Flex-14API 81SS000CCF

 

If you don't mind some extra weight for much better GPU performance: Acer Nitro 5 AN515-43-R2MG

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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On 1/6/2020 at 7:59 AM, genexis_x said:

Sorted from best to OK

 

MX150/MX250 25W:

Asus UX533FN-RH54: 8GB soldered RAM

Acer Swift 3 SF315-52G-56M7

Acer Aspire 5 A515-54G-73WC

 

Vega iGPU:

Lenovo Thinkpad T495 20NJ0001US / 20NJ0002US / 20NJ0006US / customize

Lenovo Thinkpad E495 customize

Lenovo Ideapad S540-14API 81NH008YCF / 81NH0058US

Lenovo Flex-14API 81SS000CCF

 

If you don't mind some extra weight for much better GPU performance: Acer Nitro 5 AN515-43-R2MG

Thanks, I'll take a look. 

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