What laptop

[Aereldor]

So my little sister needs a laptop to replace her old Asus ultrabook. Located in the US-

 

• Looking to spend about $1000
• Long battery life. This is the most important point. 
• Thin-and-light
• Has to be Windows, no Macs
• Good service, she hates having to fix things herself
• Decent gaming performance is nice, but not essential - she's upgrading from a Kaby dualcore with a weak iGPU so anything is an upgrade honestly

I was thinking XPS 13 with an SSD upgrade...

Anything that's on a deep sale right now would be really nice

[manikyath]

look into hp envy x360. the envy series gets HP's "premium" service. it's still an indian you're talking to, but with premium they are at least inclined to fix your problems, and when windows update breaks your drivers, HP has a tool that magically installs the updated drivers for you.

 

past that, they're very sleek devices packed with features (touch screen, fingerprint reader, a healthy mix of ports, there's options with a GPU), and they have decent battery life on top of that.

[Aereldor]

5 minutes ago, manikyath said:

look into hp envy x360. the envy series gets HP's "premium" service. it's still an indian you're talking to, but with premium they are at least inclined to fix your problems, and when windows update breaks your drivers, HP has a tool that magically installs the updated drivers for you.

 

past that, they're very sleek devices packed with features (touch screen, fingerprint reader, a healthy mix of ports, there's options with a GPU), and they have decent battery life on top of that.

I'm an Indian, so speaking to them in one of the Indian languages helps. 

 

Not really looking for 'decent' battery life, but best in class battery life. Might consider bumping up to the base model ROG G14, its battery is rated for 12 hours

[manikyath]

2 minutes ago, Aereldor said:

Not really looking for 'decent' battery life, but best in class battery life. Might consider bumping up to the base model ROG G14, its battery is rated for 12 hours

rated battery life is eh, look for reviews for how long they *actually* last..

 

that said, envy x360 tends to go for around 11 hours or so on a full battery, depending on what you're doing, ofcourse. if you're going for better battery life, skip laptops with dedicated graphics.