Help choose a laptop for my dad

[asim1999]

My dad is in need of a new laptop for work as his old windows xp one broke. He is using my gaming pc at the moment but he wants a system of his own

The criteria:

must have GOOD battery life as they is something he will use in his clinic all day and in the go when he visits patients (he is a doctor)

large amount of storage as it will be used for intense office work and productivity

SSD would be good 

must be powerful and futureproof

£800-1000 max budget

 

Thanks fro the suggestions and I will let him know what you suggest

 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, asim1999 said:

laptop for work

Does work provide a laptop? Do you need windows 7 pro/ent?

 

Id personally get a dell e5470 or a e7470, or a thinkpad t460.

 

[KCmetro]

8 minutes ago, asim1999 said:

My dad is in need of a new laptop for work as his old windows xp one broke. He is using my gaming pc at the moment but he wants a system of his own

The criteria:

must have GOOD battery life as they is something he will use in his clinic all day and in the go when he visits patients (he is a doctor)

large amount of storage as it will be used for intense office work and productivity

SSD would be good 

must be powerful and futureproof

£800-1000 max budget

 

Thanks fro the suggestions and I will let him know what you suggest

 

 

Battery life improves with less powerful laptops.

 

For US people:

800 British Pound equals
1005.96 US Dollar

1000 British Pound equals
1257.45 US Dollar

 

 

[AlphaGamer46]

Go for a Lenovo laptop, you can get them with ridiculous amounts of battery, and large storage.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, KCmetro said:

Battery life improves with less powerful laptops.

Not really. Its more of a well designed laptop with good low power settings.

 

For example, a hp stream with a ~5 w cpu + gpu lasts about 6 Hours, while a macbook pro 15 with a ~60w, can last 8 hours.

[KCmetro]

1 minute ago, AlphaGamer46 said:

Go for a Lenovo laptop, you can get them with ridiculous amounts of battery, and large storage.

I put USD$500 (approx.) into a Toshiba laptop and it worked well for similar purposes.

[KCmetro]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Not really. Its more of a well designed laptop with good low power settings.

 

For example, a hp stream with a ~5 w cpu + gpu lasts about 6 Hours, while a macbook pro 15 with a ~60w, can last 8 hours.

I meant that literally. Battery = power. Laptop with power. The amount of power the laptop consumes and the amount of power available from the battery. On my Macbook, for example, it is a powerful laptop compared to its Windows-based counterparts, and it had an amazing battery life, lasting an entire day on 1 charge, until I started using applications that really hogged it all up, then I only had half a day of battery life. Fortunately some of those apps can be used via the cloud, so it uses less power to take up 1 dedicated web browser tab than to load an entire program, and in this case the web version of the application is actually better.

[KCmetro]

Just found out about this:

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/laptop/