Help me pick a work laptop

[D13H4RD]

Long story short, my ASUS GL502 is deemed uneconomical to repair since its GPU is somehow faulty due to it constantly blue-screening whenever a 3D application of any kind is loaded. Combined with its piss-poor battery life of 2 hours if you're lucky, it looks like I am in the market for a new laptop, although this time, no-longer a gaming one as that alongside other heavy duties like video editing and rendering has been relegated to a beefed up desktop PC.

 

This laptop is mostly for web browsing, document editing/creation with a good few sessions of Photoshop and Lightroom along the way. Not a terribly heavy usecase but it should be mentioned either way.

 

The laptop in question needs to have the following;

• This is oddly specific but I would like it to have either one of Intel's new Tiger Lake-based Core i5 1135G7 or Core i7 1165G7 processors, ideally the i5 since I don't feel like the i7 is worth the bump for what I use it for. I know Zen 3 APUs are around the corner, but after some research, Tiger Lake looks like a good fit for my usecase especially in some of its higher-powered configs. Not to mention its easier to snag one rn, whilst I anticipate AMD-based laptops to run into the same supply issues plaguing its other products.
• The screen size I would prefer to be around 14" with thin bezels all around. The overall profile should also be such that it's considered a "thin-and-light", with weight around 2.2-3.3 lbs/1.0-1.5 kg.
• Rated battery life should be around 10+ hours. I am planning to have this laptop essentially kill 2 birds with one stone, in that it is replacing both an ASUS GL502 and an iPad Pro at the same time.
• Screen should be IPS, covering around 99% of the sRGB color space.
• 16GB of RAM, please
• Right now, I am based in Malaysia, so price ranges around the MYR3000-5000 range, or $740-1233.

Some laptops that are in my shortlist include the Swift 5 from Acer and the ThinkBook 14s G2 + Yoga Slim 7i Pro from Lenovo. I am open to other suggestions that fit the above requirements. Thanks.

[Mohammad Saleh]

5 minutes ago, D13H4RD said:

Long story short, my ASUS GL502 is deemed uneconomical to repair since its GPU is somehow faulty due to it constantly blue-screening whenever a 3D application of any kind is loaded. Combined with its piss-poor battery life of 2 hours if you're lucky, it looks like I am in the market for a new laptop, although this time, no-longer a gaming one as that alongside other heavy duties like video editing and rendering has been relegated to a beefed up desktop PC.

 

This laptop is mostly for web browsing, document editing/creation with a good few sessions of Photoshop and Lightroom along the way. Not a terribly heavy usecase but it should be mentioned either way.

 

The laptop in question needs to have the following;

• This is oddly specific but I would like it to have either one of Intel's new Tiger Lake-based Core i5 1135G7 or Core i7 1165G7 processors, ideally the i5 since I don't feel like the i7 is worth the bump for what I use it for. I know Zen 3 APUs are around the corner, but after some research, Tiger Lake looks like a good fit for my usecase especially in some of its higher-powered configs. Not to mention its easier to snag one rn, whilst I anticipate AMD-based laptops to run into the same supply issues plaguing its other products.
• The screen size I would prefer to be around 14" with thin bezels all around. The overall profile should also be such that it's considered a "thin-and-light", with weight around 2.2-3.3 lbs/1.0-1.5 kg.
• Rated battery life should be around 10+ hours. I am planning to have this laptop essentially kill 2 birds with one stone, in that it is replacing both an ASUS GL502 and an iPad Pro at the same time.
• Screen should be IPS, covering around 99% of the sRGB color space.
• 16GB of RAM, please
• Right now, I am based in Malaysia, so price ranges around the MYR3000-5000 range, or $740-1233.

Some laptops that are in my shortlist include the Swift 5 from Acer and the ThinkBook 14s G2 + Yoga Slim 7i Pro from Lenovo. I am open to other suggestions that fit the above requirements. Thanks.

can you wait till mid jan for the hp evny 14 to release it is really a good laptop

[SombreroSonic]

https://www.newegg.com/silver-hp-17-by4055cl/p/1TS-000D-0CUM9?Description=Core i5 1135G7&cm_re=Core_i5 1135G7-_-9SIAN2HCEM9223-_-Product

 

Found That After looking it up on newegg

[D13H4RD]

24 minutes ago, Mohammad Saleh said:

can you wait till mid jan for the hp evny 14 to release it is really a good laptop

I can wait.

12 minutes ago, SombreroSonic said:

https://www.newegg.com/silver-hp-17-by4055cl/p/1TS-000D-0CUM9?Description=Core i5 1135G7&cm_re=Core_i5 1135G7-_-9SIAN2HCEM9223-_-Product

 

Found That After looking it up on newegg

Kind reminder that US pricing does not translate to local pricing. Add in about 10%, give or take.

[D13H4RD]

Added the Yoga Slim 7i Carbon to the list of machines to consider, specced with a Core i5 1135G7 and 16GB of dual-channel LPDDR4X-4266