Laptop Buying Help

[VENUS2077]

Please suggest me a laptop under 700 USD with the following specs , i5 10th Gen , 8GB RAM minimum , 14inch / 15inch, 512GB SSD or M.2 minimum , Wifi 5/6 , Bluetooth 4.2/5.0 .

If a Equivalent Ryzen machine exists comment it too !

[PeachGr]

You may take bluetooth and wifi for granded
I like vivobooks even thou i dont have one
If you are seaching for a laptop without a GPU, many will be fine

[VENUS2077]

Just now, PeachGr said:

You may take bluetooth and wifi for granded
I like vivobooks even thou i dont have one
If you are seaching for a laptop without a GPU, many will be fine

I do need atleast the MX series in it , even a mx250 is enough , coz its for regular use .

[VENUS2077]

Just now, GlobtheBlob said:

I do need atleast the MX series in it , even a mx250 is enough , coz its for regular use .

i looked at vivobooks and looking at so many variants my mind was like hiroshima 

[PeachGr]

29 minutes ago, GlobtheBlob said:

i looked at vivobooks and looking at so many variants my mind was like hiroshima 

ok look.
The best thing to do, after applying your filters, like 8gb of RAM, you have to search for year of release, otherwise you will maybe face an old product that has a price as a new one, because of low quantity
If you can't do that, search for proccessors
Asus VivoBook S14 M433IA-WB513T (R5-4500U/8GB/512GB/FHD/W10) means that it's the Ryzen 5 4xxx series, that is the last generation
so you prefer this from the 3xxx series.
Now if you do editing and such things, you need many cores (ryzen 7), but since you will have integraded graphics on that, you wont have an awesome performance on that.
Depends on the user, but that will let you play some league of legends and other easy games, or web use
 

[PeachGr]

same goes for all laptops, Ryzen has 3xxxx/ 4xxxx series (last generation)
And intel's is i3/i5/i7 11xxx (that is the last generation) 10xxxx/ 9xxxx

[VENUS2077]

Just now, PeachGr said:

ok look.
The best thing to do, after applying your filters, like 8gb of RAM, you have to search for year of release, otherwise you will maybe face an old product that has a price as a new one, because of low quantity
If you can't do that, search for proccessors
Asus VivoBook S14 M433IA-WB513T (R5-4500U/8GB/512GB/FHD/W10) means that it's the Ryzen 5 4xxx series, that is the last generation
so you prefer this from the 3xxx series.
Now if you do editing and such things, you need many cores (ryzen 7), but since you will have integraded graphics on that, you wont have an awesome performance on that.
Depends on the user, but that will let you play some league of legends and other easy games, or web use
 

I did check out the Vivobook M433IA but it wasn't available to buy , out of stock , now i actually found a decent lenovo s145 ryzen one , cheching it out .......

[PeachGr]

4 minutes ago, GlobtheBlob said:

I did check out the Vivobook M433IA but it wasn't available to buy , out of stock , now i actually found a decent lenovo s145 ryzen one , cheching it out .......

nice one, on the low spec, previous gen. 1080p average screen
In my country it goes for 460€, and it's a nice value.
Just dont expect heavy workload and you will be fine

[VENUS2077]

4 minutes ago, PeachGr said:

nice one, on the low spec, previous gen. 1080p average screen
In my country it goes for 460€, and it's a nice value.
Just dont expect heavy workload and you will be fine

yes , one last thing finalization , Lenovo Ideapad s145 with      Ryzen 5 3500, Vega 8 GPU, 8GB RAM max=12gb , 512GB SSD , 15inch ,       VS     Mi NoteBook 14 with      i5 1021U, MX250 GPU, 8GB RAM max , 512GB SATA SSD M.2 

which would you go with  ?

[PeachGr]

12 minutes ago, GlobtheBlob said:

yes , one last thing finalization , Lenovo Ideapad s145 with      Ryzen 5 3500, Vega 8 GPU, 8GB RAM max=12gb , 512GB SSD , 15inch ,       VS     Mi NoteBook 14 with      i5 1021U, MX250 GPU, 8GB RAM max , 512GB SATA SSD M.2 

which would you go with  ?

mi has better value, but i don't know xiaomi on laptops. Just in case you' ll buy it, be sure that it comes to your country with no issue.
For the past years, i just go for strong brands, so i can't suggest a mi laptop (even thou they make em for years for chinnese market)
There are also huawei matebook laptops, in case you wanna go for value, they are usually realy good

 

[VENUS2077]

3 minutes ago, PeachGr said:

mi has better value, but i don't know xiaomi on laptops. Just in case you' ll buy it, be sure that it comes to your country with no issue.
For the past years, i just go for strong brands, so i can't suggest a mi laptop (even thou they make em for years for chinnese market)
There are also huawei matebook laptops, in case you wanna go for value, they are usually realy good

 

hmm  i will check out the huaewi ones, i actually was settled for the Mi Notebook because of the GPU , coz that's enough for me , also i will upgrade the RAM to 16GB and SSD to a NVMe 2TB one , that was my plan , in that way it would run for atleast 5 years 

[PeachGr]

1 minute ago, GlobtheBlob said:

hmm  i will check out the huaewi ones, i actually was settled for the Mi Notebook because of the GPU , coz that's enough for me , also i will upgrade the RAM to 16GB and SSD to a NVMe 2TB one , that was my plan , in that way it would run for atleast 5 years 

on that market, there is a ton of laptops, but if you plan to upgrade, better look at some videos, or ifixit to check upgradeability, some brands just stick ram, or put it behind the motherboard, i don't know about m.2 nvme, usualy there is a spot to put it, but that is also something you need to check (case by case)

[VENUS2077]

1 minute ago, PeachGr said:

on that market, there is a ton of laptops, but if you plan to upgrade, better look at some videos, or ifixit to check upgradeability, some brands just stick ram, or put it behind the motherboard, i don't know about m.2 nvme, usualy there is a spot to put it, but that is also something you need to check (case by case)

i did check , on the mi store only it is given that storage is upgradable and i did see a teardown where the m.2 was shown , but the RAM is soldered but i got a suggestion that it is upgradable , so I have to upgrade after my warranty expires after 1 year , also the MX250 beats the Vega 8 in every benchmark , so i guess my choice is the MI book 

[LogicalDrm]

-> Moved to Laptops and Pre-Built Systems

[genexis_x]

22 hours ago, GlobtheBlob said:

under 700 USD

are you buying in US?

[Elad.Evron]

IDK how pandemiced your area is but Ithink that going to a store and asking a sales person that looks like they knwo what they are doing could be your best option 

[VENUS2077]

7 hours ago, genexis_x said:

are you buying in US?

Ah , Nope 

[PiberiusWilde]

On 10/8/2020 at 8:41 PM, GlobtheBlob said:

Please suggest me a laptop under 700 USD with the following specs , i5 10th Gen , 8GB RAM minimum , 14inch / 15inch, 512GB SSD or M.2 minimum , Wifi 5/6 , Bluetooth 4.2/5.0 .

If a Equivalent Ryzen machine exists comment it too !

Well depends on where you live. If I had that kind of money I would go for a Asus ZenBook UM425IA for Ryzen ($750) or Asus VivoBook X412/X512FL ($600-$650) the X412FL is my personal laptop

[genexis_x]

7 hours ago, GlobtheBlob said:

Ah , Nope 

which country then?

[VENUS2077]

2 hours ago, genexis_x said:

which country then?

India 

[VENUS2077]

4 hours ago, PiberiusWilde said:

Well depends on where you live. If I had that kind of money I would go for a Asus ZenBook UM425IA for Ryzen ($750) or Asus VivoBook X412/X512FL ($600-$650) the X412FL is my personal laptop

I checked out both the X412 and X512 , really great specs , but unfortunately both are out of stock in India , i think i might go with the MI notebook horizon edition which has MX350 GPU . but if any of these become available in the next week i will surely buy either one as there will a sale upcoming .

[PiberiusWilde]

2 hours ago, GlobtheBlob said:

I checked out both the X412 and X512 , really great specs , but unfortunately both are out of stock in India , i think i might go with the MI notebook horizon edition which has MX350 GPU . but if any of these become available in the next week i will surely buy either one as there will a sale upcoming .

Oh.. wow they have one of those sold in India, cool.

 

Just uh...... fingers crossed they don't have heat management issues as these laptop using MX230 and MX250

[genexis_x]

5 hours ago, GlobtheBlob said:

India 

So you're buying in India? If yes, budget in local currency?

5 hours ago, GlobtheBlob said:

I checked out both the X412 and X512

Avoid them.

[PiberiusWilde]

18 minutes ago, genexis_x said:

So you're buying in India? If yes, budget in local currency?

Avoid them.

May I know why?

 

 

Sorry, kinda feel offended here 'cause that's my current laptop (8th gen i5 version)

[genexis_x]

2 hours ago, PiberiusWilde said:

May I know why?

cheaply built, can't even design a cooling system properly, small battery