Scouting For A Laptop

[Luc401]

Looking around for a laptop for my sister.She needs one for uni and i have the specs in mind but cannot seem to find anything that suits likeings .

 

Under 1500$

Ultrabook or slim to carry around

7H+ battery life

8Gb of ram

500gb hdd maybe with a ssd and hdd inside

around 13"

Has to be a haswell 

 

Hopefully you guys will be able to help

[Volbet]

You will probaly have a hard time finding a PC with all of those specs. I would recommend I would recommend the Asus Zenbook: http://ncix.com/products/?sku=77128&vpn=UX31A-DH71-CA&manufacture=ASUS&promoid=1337, but it only have 4GB of RAM and 256GB of storage

 

Edit: Does it have to be a ultrabook or is the 13 inch Apple Macbook Air something ? http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MD761LL/A? (I will probably be crucified by the forum now)

[Coombzy]

the Zenbook like Volbet said or the aspire s7 both are very good ultrabooks but they come with 256GB drives or lower at that price point

[Luc401]

Isnt 4gb too little? Right now watching one youtube video and having 5 tabs open in google chrome and a few other small things im sitting at 4.2gb used

[Volbet]

Isnt 4gb too little? Right now watching one youtube video and having 5 tabs open in google chrome and a few other small things im sitting at 4.2gb used

Currently I'm running a virus scan, have 3 youtube tabs, a ad heavy tab and Powerpoint open and I only use 2.36GB of RAM. Unless the laptop is meant to edit photos and video or playing games on 4GB is enough

[Dudenstein]

MacBook air would suit her well I believe. I'm assuming it's going to be for browsing the web, word processing, and maybe light editing. If she's going to be doing any real editing or real gaming then an ultraportable probably won't do her needs justice. For general uni use and ultra thin would be great and at the moment the Air is the best one available.

[Luc401]

No macs

[CornOnJacob]

Try the Acer Aspire S7-392. Make sure you look at the 392, because that is the refreshed Haswell version. There are options for a Core i5 and Core i7 (but the i7 is a bit over budget)

[Luc401]

Try the Acer Aspire S7-392. Make sure you look at the 392, because that is the refreshed Haswell version. There are options for a Core i5 and Core i7 (but the i7 is a bit over budget)

Interesting 

[Luc401]

Try the Acer Aspire S7-392. Make sure you look at the 392, because that is the refreshed Haswell version. There are options for a Core i5 and Core i7 (but the i7 is a bit over budget)

Problem with that is the small storage 128g isnt that much.Her sims games will take up 40gb the os probably another 30 im guessing atleast and then add the other little things that a non techie has.I would say external HDD but since shes NON TECHY Hard Core it would just not be a good idea.

[Guest]

Isnt 4gb too little? Right now watching one youtube video and having 5 tabs open in google chrome and a few other small things im sitting at 4.2gb used

 

Windows scales memory use fairly well depending on how much you have, so that shouldn't be a huge issue.

[Luc401]

Ok so here are the options i currently have any one have experience with any of these that would like to note a problem or a feature https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag_hwPqBqX9odG9wYUN0cjVibEFMMlJ0bVFMUThhcnc#gid=0