Small basic laptop suggestions

[Nonco]

Been looking for a basic laptop for a while, preferably i3 or i5 CPU. Just want to have something to take with me on trips and to friends places ect.

 

Wanted to get something small 12-14". Nothing with dedicated GPU just iGPU from CPU I guess for very very light games.

Battery life would be most important too I guess.

 

Im terrible at finding more budget oriented systems and usually only seem to find laptops which i love but are too pricy haha.

 

Im in Australia also.

Any suggestions for laptops I should be looking at? Or ones you have bought for similar reasons.

[Guest]

XPS 13 would be a nice choice if budget allows

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lenovo has a good i3 range and they are currently having a 'sale' http://www3.lenovo.com/au/en/deals/current-offers/deals-of-the-week/E460-AU-C8/p/20ETCTO1WWENAUH

[Droidbot]

- Lenovo X230/40/50/60 (not 20 or 201 as they're old) - 12.5" ULP CPU, has eGPU support, nice machine overall

- HP EliteBook Folio - 14" ultrabook. Older machine, but still really nice.

- HP EliteBook 2570p - I'm a little biased as I own one, but it's a really nice little machine. 12.5", with quad-core upgrade available

- Dell E6430 - 14" business machine with dedicated GPU option and quad core option. Unlockable turbo bins on the quad-core units allow up to 68w of CPU power at once when turbo boosting, and you can have up to 3 batteries in the machine at once for 32h (!) of battery life. eGPU can be done also. 

- Dell E6440 - See above, but Haswell architecure instead of Ivy Bridge

 

Pretty much all the machines above are really cheap (<$700)

[Nonco]

14 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

XPS 13 would be a nice choice if budget allows

Id love one if I had the budget, itd be my first choice if I had extra money haha

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what's your budget? i personally would get a thinkpad for that usecase since they are really durable