New laptop recommendation

[returnee]

Heya, my old laptop has finally crapped out so I need to get a new one and would like some recommendations
Size: 15" or smaller
Budget: Sub £1000
Workloads: Light CAD and FEA, Some Photoshop, Lightroom & Illustrator, Lots of Word/Excel.
Battery needs to last a decent amount of time. Would like it if it had a hinge where you could fold over the screen and/or a pen could be used on the screen, but thats just a nice have, nothing essential.
Doing the bulk of CAD and analysis on a proper desktop, so the CAD it needs to do is really very rough and pretty much just for rough concept designs on the spot.

[Ashleyyyy]

does the graphics work you have to do require a color accurate display? cuz if so a used macbook might actually be a good option here if your CAD stuff runs on macOS... 

[returnee]

I do most of the graphics work at home on a proper display, so that would also only be for rough stuff so the colour accuracy isn't to important as long as it is within reason. I have a friend who uses a 2018 macbook pro and he claims that it's not sufficient to do even rough work with CAD. Plus I am not really a fan of mac so I would prefer to stick to windows.

[SupaKomputa]

8 minutes ago, returnee said:

Battery needs to last a decent amount of time

2021 Macbook Air should be great. 

[Mohammad Saleh]

6 minutes ago, returnee said:

I do most of the graphics work at home on a proper display, so that would also only be for rough stuff so the colour accuracy isn't to important as long as it is within reason. I have a friend who uses a 2018 macbook pro and he claims that it's not sufficient to do even rough work with CAD. Plus I am not really a fan of mac so I would prefer to stick to windows.

get the hp omen with an 5800h rtx 3060 and 16 gb of ram

[returnee]

12 minutes ago, Betterthanever said:

Hi. Are you open to Clevo based laptops? + do you require UK Keyboard?

I am unfamiliar with clevo based laptops but based on what I just read I think I am open to them. The keyboard layout doesn't matter to much, I am already used to writing on keyboards with different layouts.

[returnee]

10 minutes ago, Betterthanever said:

Then there's this 14' model. Would it be OK for you to buy in USD? I am asking because that's the currency usually people buy laptops in on Linus.

 

https://buyclevo.com/en/laptop/NV40ME-D_1911_NvidiaGTX1650Ti

 

All you need to do after you decide to buy it is get a Win10 license and you are ready to go.

 

You got there i7 on your board + GTX 1650Ti so should be enough to run demanding programs. Battery in this model shouldn't be also a problem as it's Low power consuming version of i7.

 

Plus the design is Navy Blue. Check it out

Looks good, especially for beeing 14" and having a proper GPU. I am fine buying stuff in USD, currency matters less as long as I don't have to ship an item here and pay import charges on it.