Laptop for under $700

[Mamonos]

Looking for reccomandation - ideas.

 

In the market for a Laptop under $700, but feel free to push up to $1000 if the idea of having it on sale at Black Friday is realistic (e.g. likely laptops with Ice Lake or Zen+ CPU).

Laptop will be used only for web browsing, mail, word, excel.

 

No apple and no tablets / hybrid products.

 

Therefore, pretty much any hardware will fit, but priority is on buid quality.

 

Size anywere from 13 to 15, although 15 with numpad would be preferred.

 

I am tempted to go for the Huawei Matebook D15 series, they are quite cheap and they get very good reviews in terms of build quality.

Perhaps it would have been an instant buy but I just don't get why would they leave the numpad out of a 15.6" laptop (when they have 13" and 14" models as well), so looking around for something else.

 

Asus Vivobook looks competitive.

I also like Lenovo a lot on my experience but they have such a jungle of products that is hard to choose.

What about Acer Swift 3? Lot of offers on these at the moment.

Anyone got experience with these products?