Laptops - For a budget

[RickyD96]

Hey guys, 
 

I've been looking around the forums and I can't seem to find anywhere here that there are several ranges or budgets in one thread.

 

Now, I'm a young, soon to be, college freshman thinking about saving up some money for a nice laptop that is good enough for some school work, light gaming (say like bioshock infinite med graphics), and maybe an ssd (not necessary) but i know people are looking for other kinds of things so lets do this:

Lets put a small Tag at the beginning of each comment that will help others find what they need

So lets say 5 tags 

*Emails/School

       Entry level laptops (200-300)
*LowGaming

       Lower end gaming capable computers (500-800)
*LowWork

       Lower end Workstation capable (500-800) (screen may have more priority over graphics)

*MidRange

       Heres just the lowest end of what linus would review (900-1200

*TopEnd

       Here goes what we all want but not all of us can afford (eg i would like the Dell XPS 15 (USD $2600)but like yea not any time soon )

 

Looks are a bonus for all of these

 

I'll post some of the laptops i have found recently as a little starter

[RickyD96]

*LowWork

 

Dell i5558-5716SLV

-Processor : i5-5200U 2.20 GHz Turbo Boost 2.70 GHz

-Ram : 8GB 1600 MHz

-Screen : 15.6 inch 1080p touch screen

-Backlit Keyboard (awesome find)

 

Price: normally around 800 dlls, right now its at 550 for the holidays (as far as i know)

 

Link:

http://www.amazon.com/Dell-i5558-5716SLV-Signature-15-6-inch-touchscreen/dp/B014ILI2H4/ref=sr_1_7?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1448876063&sr=1-7&keywords=dell+inspiron+15+7548

 

Disclaimer I have not bought this, I know nothing of the real world experience, but i would.

[saab_gobbler]

*Midrange

 

Here's what I've got:

 

2015 Dell XPS 13

$999*

 

Proc: i5-5200u @ 2.2ghz

Ram: 8gb (non-upgradeable)

Screen: 13.3" 1080p matte non-touch

SSD: 128gb m.2

 

It is by far and away the best laptop I've ever used. The size is perfect, it's shockingly light & portable (It weighs just over 2lbs, which is like a third of a text book, you won't even notice it in your bag). The screen is excellent, the keyboard is great, the speakers are great, the battery life is insane (on this non-touch model). It's fast, I don't really game on it, but minecraft & brutal doom run fine (even on linux), everything else it handles with gusto, never had any slowdowns. The fan only comes on if you really push it (sometimes if you're using it while it's charging too), making it basically silent. The trackpad is big, The build quality is great. The ssd is plenty fast, although I'll probably upgrade it at some point, 128gb is fine since I have a rig at home (& I got a free $50 gift card to the dell website with my purchase, which I used on 2x64gb micro-sd cards, and through some mixup ended up with 3, so one of those is in there permanently  :lol: ). I really can't recommend it enough. I'm using it for school as well & I couldn't be happier. Oh & DAT BEZEL DOE. Seriously, just do it, you won't regret it.

 

*I have the developer edition which came with ubuntu pre-installed (was going to do that anyway), I think it was $50-$100 cheaper than the windows equivalent so ymmv

[exercutor5]

Ridiculously high end

 

 

Clevo P870DM-G

(Also commonly known as: Sager NP9870 / Eurocom Sky X9 / XMG U726 / Origin PC EON17-SLX / Digital Storm Banshee 17.3" / Aftershock Titan 2016)

 

- Desktop Skylake CPU

- Desktop GTX 980 8GB GDDR5

- Up to 64GB of DDR4 SODIMM RAM

- Can accommodate 2 M.2 PCIe x4 SSDs

- Can accommodate 2 9.5mm 2.5" HDDs/SSDs

- 17.3" G-Sync Full HD IPS display

 

This thing is like in the USD$3000 and above range.