laptop for school

[kelvinhall05]

i bought an asus ux31la-us51t for school, but it came with a doa battery and it is currently out of stock, so i cant replace it. could anyone recommend a laptop for me? here are the specs i would like:

i5 or better, would highly prefer intel over amd

8gb of ram or 4gb of upgradable ram

128gb ssd or greater or 1tb hdd

12-13.3 inches. nothing bigger or smaller

thin and light. am willing to sacrifice ports

windows 8.1 or windows 10

350$-400$ usd

asus or lenovo.

[kelvinhall05]

Just now, Tech N Gamer said:

You can easily use Google, just type Laptops in the search, go to shopping, then select everything you want.

ok thx!

[Pendragon]

1 hour ago, kelvinhall05 said:

asus or lenovo.

uhh how about dell and lenovo. cause asus is basically trash these days except maybe a few "okay" ultrabook models.

[kelvinhall05]

Just now, Pendragon said:

uhh how about dell and lenovo. cause asus is basically trash these days except maybe a few "okay" ultrabook models.

most of the nice dell laptops are too expensive, or at least from my expirience

[Pendragon]

6 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

most of the nice dell laptops are too expensive, or at least from my expirience

I mean just look on ebay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Inspiron-13-13-3-Touch-i7359-8403GLD-Intel-Core-i7-6200U-2-in-1-Notebook-/262584513480?hash=item3d2341b3c8:g:nJUAAOSwIgNXs-kp

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-T450s-/191944982067?hash=item2cb0cffe33:g:LS8AAOSw0UdXrrYV

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-Think-Pad-T450s-20BX-001EUS-Just-Reduced-/142090864894?hash=item21154688fe:g:O94AAOSwgQ9Vkbt9

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-T440p-i5-4200m-HD-win-7-Pro-8-GB-Webcam-DVDRW-Ready-to-use-/252506007629?hash=item3aca87e84d:g:MQwAAOSwGYVXC9H0

 

you can find amazing stuff on it. 

[Stagea]

7 hours ago, kelvinhall05 said:

i bought an asus ux31la-us51t for school, but it came with a doa battery and it is currently out of stock, so i cant replace it. could anyone recommend a laptop for me? here are the specs i would like:

i5 or better, would highly prefer intel over amd

8gb of ram or 4gb of upgradable ram

128gb ssd or greater or 1tb hdd

12-13.3 inches. nothing bigger or smaller

thin and light. am willing to sacrifice ports

windows 8.1 or windows 10

350$-400$ usd

asus or lenovo.

A little more than your budget (and not an i5 or higher), but worth a look:

HP Spectre X2

 

Small i5 notebooks will cost you quite a bit more than 350-400.

[Pendragon]

3 hours ago, Stagea said:

HP Spectre X2

This thing has a tablet processor. 

[Stagea]

5 hours ago, Pendragon said:

This thing has a tablet processor. 

True. I don't see the guy needing anything demanding though seeing that he's looking for a thin and light for $400 (unless he's looking at used models). The MacBook runs a similar processor.

 

Even a refurbished last gen model i5 will run around $500 for a 13 incher, and that's without an SSD. An older refurbished ultrabook might fit the budget.

[Pendragon]

28 minutes ago, Stagea said:

The MacBook runs a similar processor.

That's incomparable. OSX =/= Windows. You can edit videos on Final Cut with that Macbook and better than almost all Windows laptop short of the desktop replacements. Whereas the same processor on Windows will take a year to edit the same video.

 

You can feel a significant difference between using m series and u series. A bit difference between u and quad. And quad to desktop quad is pretty unnoticeable in day to day usage. 

 

31 minutes ago, Stagea said:

An older refurbished ultrabook might fit the budget.

I agree. @kelvinhall05 your best option is second hand/refurb business ultrabooks. 

[kelvinhall05]

4 hours ago, Pendragon said:

That's incomparable. OSX =/= Windows. You can edit videos on Final Cut with that Macbook and better than almost all Windows laptop short of the desktop replacements. Whereas the same processor on Windows will take a year to edit the same video.

 

You can feel a significant difference between using m series and u series. A bit difference between u and quad. And quad to desktop quad is pretty unnoticeable in day to day usage. 

 

I agree. @kelvinhall05 your best option is second hand/refurb business ultrabooks. 

kinda figured so