Laptop for Travel/Gaming/Work, any suggestions?

[Gileotine]

Evening everyone. I would like some place to start, if you have a moment.

 

I'm going to be shipping out to Japan to teach English. I plan on bringing my gaming PC with me, but while I am there I believe that a strong laptop would help while I am traveling between schools/doing Zoom classrooms.

 

-Decent Battery (has to last at least half of a school day 6hrs, it'll probably be plugged in though)

-Decent/Great webcam

-Decent/Great gaming ability (I'll only be playing WoW, R6: Siege, indie games. It'll probably be used for a lot of Youtube/twitch viewing as well)

-Great for stuff like word processing and excel? 

-Somewhat lightweight (I want a laptop that is sturdy enough to be taken around all over town and take some bumps but not heavy to the point that I feel like I'm carrying extra books).

 

My budget is $1000, preferably lower but I'll shoot for something higher if it would work. I want something that is going to last at least two years without becoming sluggish and a chore to use.

 

Odd-off questions:

Should I wait until I am in Japan/have a laptop in Japan be shipped to me when I arrive?  Would that be cheaper/safer considering I wont need to use a converter?

I'm leaving within 2.5 weeks. I prefer ordering through Amazon since I have prime.

 

Thanks for your advice.

 

Greyson

[kelvinhall05]

11 minutes ago, Gileotine said:

Decent Battery

 

11 minutes ago, Gileotine said:

Decent/Great gaming ability

 

11 minutes ago, Gileotine said:

Somewhat lightweight

 

11 minutes ago, Gileotine said:

My budget is $1000

Yeah good luck with that.

 

 

Don't get a gaming laptop.

[Gileotine]

1 minute ago, kelvinhall05 said:

 

 

 

Yeah good luck with that.

 

 

Don't get a gaming laptop.

Okay.. then any suggestions for my budget? Or something I ought to adjust? Or are you just gonna widepost

[kelvinhall05]

39 minutes ago, Gileotine said:

Okay.. then any suggestions for my budget? Or something I ought to adjust? Or are you just gonna widepost

 

[Gileotine]

2 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

 

I'll check that out, thank you. I'm no expert with computers but I'm assuming that'll be good enough for some light gaming (Based on the OP) and work?

[kelvinhall05]

1 minute ago, Gileotine said:

I'll check that out, thank you. I'm no expert with computers but I'm assuming that'll be good enough for some light gaming (Based on the OP) and work?

Would be a great work machine and yeah, good for some games. Not sure how it'll handle R6 but it should easily handle the rest (at low-medium settings, depending on the game).

[Gileotine]

9 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Would be a great work machine and yeah, good for some games. Not sure how it'll handle R6 but it should easily handle the rest (at low-medium settings, depending on the game).

Thank you very much then. I'll look into it and around reddit didn't think about reddit.

[kelvinhall05]

Just now, Gileotine said:

Thank you very much then. I'll look into it and around reddit didn't think about reddit.

r/thinkpadsforsale

r/hardwareswap

 

Those are your best bets.

[Gileotine]

39 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

r/thinkpadsforsale

r/hardwareswap

 

Those are your best bets.

There something specifically special about Thinkpads?

[kelvinhall05]

28 minutes ago, Gileotine said:

There something specifically special about Thinkpads?

They're great machines overall.

[Eat Soup]

5 hours ago, Gileotine said:

Evening everyone. I would like some place to start, if you have a moment.

 

I'm going to be shipping out to Japan to teach English. I plan on bringing my gaming PC with me, but while I am there I believe that a strong laptop would help while I am traveling between schools/doing Zoom classrooms.

 

-Decent Battery (has to last at least half of a school day 6hrs, it'll probably be plugged in though)

-Decent/Great webcam

-Decent/Great gaming ability (I'll only be playing WoW, R6: Siege, indie games. It'll probably be used for a lot of Youtube/twitch viewing as well)

-Great for stuff like word processing and excel? 

-Somewhat lightweight (I want a laptop that is sturdy enough to be taken around all over town and take some bumps but not heavy to the point that I feel like I'm carrying extra books).

 

My budget is $1000, preferably lower but I'll shoot for something higher if it would work. I want something that is going to last at least two years without becoming sluggish and a chore to use.

 

Odd-off questions:

Should I wait until I am in Japan/have a laptop in Japan be shipped to me when I arrive?  Would that be cheaper/safer considering I wont need to use a converter?

I'm leaving within 2.5 weeks. I prefer ordering through Amazon since I have prime.

 

Thanks for your advice.

 

Greyson

Check out the Acer Swift 3 on Amazon. It has a ryzen 7 4700u (8 cores/ 8 threads, vega graphics) and 8gb of ram, 512gb nvme ssd and at 1.2 kg. It only costs ~650 USD.