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  1. 1. Which one? I made them multiple choice since HP SPectre might not be available so pretend it's not there and only choose it if you think it's good if I manage to get it

    • Macbook pro 13 pro base model 256GB (2017) 1600$ 13
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    • Asus UX330 972$ 13.3 with bezels
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    • Asus UX430UA 1068$ (i5 8GB Ram 256gb storage) 14
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    • HP Spectrex360 (Not 100% sure if I can find it for a decent price in my country) has to be around 1100$! 13.3
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    • Asus UX 360 (i5, 8GB ram, 512GB SSD 2560x1440 (I assume fake QHD so I'm avoiding this one) 13.3 1000$
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So I have a PC and I need to buy a laptop for the outside, My university is also starting soon (CS) so that'll be useful.

 

I need a good display, battery life and want it to be around 2.5lbs (1.2kg~)

 

I was going to buy UX410 before I heard bad things about Asus here. I'm confused, should I buy Asus? Warranty isn't the best here but there is a warranty anyway. Also there are almost no reviews for ux430 online (youtube, there's a website that has a review though)

 

I'm super tempted to get the macbook pro, because.....  Looks. don't judge me :D Come on... I haven't seen the others though. the last laptop I've ever seen was a 10 year old IBM so..... not sure if it's unique to the macbook, The display was also freaking stunning). But seriously the main reason is actually that everyone says they last so long and everything. and I thought maybe I should pay more but keep it for longer? is this true? I've never used mac before but I can install Ubuntu/Windows too and get used to mac! It'd be hard for me to pay that much but possible.

 

Can anyone recommend me anything? Opinions ?! This is mostly a confirmation for the ux430 or whether mac is a good opinion.

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4 minutes ago, Teddy07 said:

Did you take a look at the xps 13 / 15? 

yup. Only found the base xps 13 for like 1890$ otherwise i'm in love with dell xps :P too sad I can't find it here D:

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8 minutes ago, Asthetic said:

yup. Only found the base xps 13 for like 1890$ otherwise i'm in love with dell xps :P too sad I can't find it here D:

wow! Normally German electronics are cheaper than in countries with Dollar as payment. That is indeed very expensive. XPS 15 is here ~1600 € with decent hardware.

 

I am a CS student myself and I only have a 5-year-old upgraded laptop with an i7 second gen. and no GPU. It does the job as I don't have to program much and when I have to then only small programs. You would only like a laptop with a long battery life. I think any laptop with a decent CPU will do the job. It all depends on how much you want to spend.

My friend bought a MacBook just for his CS study and I really like it even tho I would not buy it because of the apple fee :P

 

I highly recommend a laptop with an SSD.

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2 minutes ago, Teddy07 said:

wow! Normally German electronics are cheaper than in countries with Dollar as payment. That is indeed very expensive. XPS 15 is here ~1600 € with decent hardware.

 

I am a CS student myself and I only have a 5-year-old upgraded laptop with an i7 second gen. and no GPU. It does the job as I don't have to program much and when I have to then only small programs. You would only like a laptop with a long battery life. I think any laptop with a decent CPU will do the job. It all depends on how much you want to spend.

My friend bought a MacBook just for his CS study and I really like it even tho I would not buy it because of the apple fee :P

 ^^ I'd still appreciate a  vote on my poll :P other than the weight the dell xps 15 with a 1050 sounds like a dream! even without it....

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3 minutes ago, Asthetic said:

Thanks ^^ I'd still appreciate a  vote on my poll :P

ok :)

Voted for the spectre360 because he looked pretty good and you can move the display a lot. I just want to say that I know nothing about these laptops in terms of build quality.

Other people will surely help you soon :)

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4 minutes ago, Teddy07 said:

ok :)

Voted for the spectre360 because he looked pretty good and you can move the display a lot. I just want to say that I know nothing about these laptops in terms of build quality.

Other people will surely help you soon :)

Oh thanks! I was mostly worried about quality and stuff. people said some bad stuff about Asus here. and a bit about HP too D: that's why I included the mac! also considering it's  a bit closer to it's real dollar price compared to others for some reason.

 

Also I'm not sure if I ever find HP spectre x360 it's going to be 1000$! it could be more expensive.

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2 hours ago, Asthetic said:

 and a bit about HP too D:

 

It all depends on the model. People who say Asus and hp are bad in general are wrong. :D 

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Just now, Teddy07 said:

It all depends on the model. People who say Asus and hp are bad in general are wrong. :D 

:o that's nice to hear! I'll still wait for people to give opinion son those models.

 

I don't think I should get mac if they're good. cause the only reason I was considering it was longer lifespan!

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OOh i forgot about the display. macbook has a wider color gamut D: that explains the stunning of the display in the apple store. Not sure what the ux430 look slike in comparison (or hp spectre)

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In which country are you buying the laptop? As for the recommendation, I'd pick the HP Spectre x360 13.3" and if you can get the model with the Pen Digitizer support in your country, it's a compelling convertible laptop especially the pen support, which can help you greatly if you do a lot of note taking. Battery life on it is pretty great, it should be able to last you about 7-8 hrs of your programming and note taking tasks. Also it's the only one with 2 ThunderBolt 3 ports (from your options besides the MacBook Pro 13 2016 model) which kind of makes it future proof (for eGPUs and the like).

Daily drivers:

- HP Elite x2 1012 G2: Intel Core i7-7600U, Intel HD Graphics 620 + Aorus Gaming Box GTX 1080 eGPU, 16GB LPDDR3-1867, 256GB Toshiba NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD + 128GB Toshiba Exceria UHS-1 U3 MicroSD, 12.3" 2736x1824 + HP Pavilion 22cwa Monitor 21.5" 1080p IPS, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

- LG V20 (H990DS): Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 (ARM-based), Adreno 530, 4GB LPDDR4, 64GB eMMC UFS 2.0 + 64GB SanDisk Extreme UHS-1 U3 V30 MicroSD, 5.7" IPS LCD 1440p + 2.1" 160x1040, Android 7.0 (LG UX 5.0)

 

Other devices:

- Lenovo IdeaPad Y400: Intel Core i7-3630QM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M SLI, 16GB DDR3-1600, 120GB Kingston mS200 mSATA SSD + 1TB HGST Travelstar 7K1000 7200rpm 2.5" HDD, 14" 768p, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit + Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit [retired]

- Dell Venue 11 Pro (7139): Intel Core i5-4300Y, Intel HD Graphics 4200, 8GB LPDDR3-1600, 256GB SanDisk X110 M.2 2260 SATA3 SSD, 10.8" 1080p IPS, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit + Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit [retired]

- Acer Iconia W4: Intel Atom Z3740, Intel HD Graphics, 2GB DDR3L-1033, 64GB Samsung MCG8GC eMMC, 8" IPS WXGA (1280x800), Windows 10 Home 32-bit

- Asus ZenFone 2 ZE551ML: Intel Atom Z3580 (x86-based), PowerVR G6430, 4GB LPDDR3, 64GB eMMC, 5.5" IPS LCD 1080p, Android 6.0.1 (Asus ZenUI)

- New Nintendo 2DS XL

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I'm a CS student myself, currently using Lenovo IdeaPad Y400 bought from 2013 (specs in signature) and the battery life is horrible :( at 3hrs (4 if I'm lucky) on light usage. So yes, something with low power CPU (the Intel U series) and large battery would benefit you A LOT.

Daily drivers:

- HP Elite x2 1012 G2: Intel Core i7-7600U, Intel HD Graphics 620 + Aorus Gaming Box GTX 1080 eGPU, 16GB LPDDR3-1867, 256GB Toshiba NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD + 128GB Toshiba Exceria UHS-1 U3 MicroSD, 12.3" 2736x1824 + HP Pavilion 22cwa Monitor 21.5" 1080p IPS, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

- LG V20 (H990DS): Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 (ARM-based), Adreno 530, 4GB LPDDR4, 64GB eMMC UFS 2.0 + 64GB SanDisk Extreme UHS-1 U3 V30 MicroSD, 5.7" IPS LCD 1440p + 2.1" 160x1040, Android 7.0 (LG UX 5.0)

 

Other devices:

- Lenovo IdeaPad Y400: Intel Core i7-3630QM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M SLI, 16GB DDR3-1600, 120GB Kingston mS200 mSATA SSD + 1TB HGST Travelstar 7K1000 7200rpm 2.5" HDD, 14" 768p, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit + Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit [retired]

- Dell Venue 11 Pro (7139): Intel Core i5-4300Y, Intel HD Graphics 4200, 8GB LPDDR3-1600, 256GB SanDisk X110 M.2 2260 SATA3 SSD, 10.8" 1080p IPS, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit + Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit [retired]

- Acer Iconia W4: Intel Atom Z3740, Intel HD Graphics, 2GB DDR3L-1033, 64GB Samsung MCG8GC eMMC, 8" IPS WXGA (1280x800), Windows 10 Home 32-bit

- Asus ZenFone 2 ZE551ML: Intel Atom Z3580 (x86-based), PowerVR G6430, 4GB LPDDR3, 64GB eMMC, 5.5" IPS LCD 1080p, Android 6.0.1 (Asus ZenUI)

- New Nintendo 2DS XL

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The Spectre looks like a pretty good 2-in-1.

 

HP’s been on quite a roll lately, along with Dell.

The Workhorse (AMD-powered custom desktop)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X | GPU: MSI X Trio GeForce RTX 2070S | RAM: XPG Spectrix D60G 32GB DDR4-3200 | Storage: 512GB XPG SX8200P + 2TB 7200RPM Seagate Barracuda Compute | OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro

 

The Portable Workstation (Apple MacBook Pro 16" 2021)

SoC: Apple M1 Max (8+2 core CPU w/ 32-core GPU) | RAM: 32GB unified LPDDR5 | Storage: 1TB PCIe Gen4 SSD | OS: macOS Monterey

 

The Communicator (Apple iPhone 13 Pro)

SoC: Apple A15 Bionic | RAM: 6GB LPDDR4X | Storage: 128GB internal w/ NVMe controller | Display: 6.1" 2532x1170 "Super Retina XDR" OLED with VRR at up to 120Hz | OS: iOS 15.1

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33 minutes ago, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

The Spectre looks like a pretty good 2-in-1.

 

HP’s been on quite a roll lately, along with Dell.

That's nice to hear ^_^

then I'll buy HP spectre x360 and only consider ux430 if it's ridiculously overpriced or something!

 

USB-C Is annoying though D: but I think we have no choice :\  I feel like it's just an excuse to sell more dongles!

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24 minutes ago, Asthetic said:

That's nice to hear ^_^

then I'll buy HP spectre x360 and only consider ux430 if it's ridiculously overpriced or something!

 

USB-C Is annoying though D: but I think we have no choice :\  I feel like it's just an excuse to sell more dongles!

Well, at least the HP still offer 1 USB type A which should ease you up a bit on dongles :D however if you need to read SD cards and display output to external screen, then you might need some dongles

Daily drivers:

- HP Elite x2 1012 G2: Intel Core i7-7600U, Intel HD Graphics 620 + Aorus Gaming Box GTX 1080 eGPU, 16GB LPDDR3-1867, 256GB Toshiba NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD + 128GB Toshiba Exceria UHS-1 U3 MicroSD, 12.3" 2736x1824 + HP Pavilion 22cwa Monitor 21.5" 1080p IPS, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

- LG V20 (H990DS): Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 (ARM-based), Adreno 530, 4GB LPDDR4, 64GB eMMC UFS 2.0 + 64GB SanDisk Extreme UHS-1 U3 V30 MicroSD, 5.7" IPS LCD 1440p + 2.1" 160x1040, Android 7.0 (LG UX 5.0)

 

Other devices:

- Lenovo IdeaPad Y400: Intel Core i7-3630QM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M SLI, 16GB DDR3-1600, 120GB Kingston mS200 mSATA SSD + 1TB HGST Travelstar 7K1000 7200rpm 2.5" HDD, 14" 768p, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit + Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit [retired]

- Dell Venue 11 Pro (7139): Intel Core i5-4300Y, Intel HD Graphics 4200, 8GB LPDDR3-1600, 256GB SanDisk X110 M.2 2260 SATA3 SSD, 10.8" 1080p IPS, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit + Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit [retired]

- Acer Iconia W4: Intel Atom Z3740, Intel HD Graphics, 2GB DDR3L-1033, 64GB Samsung MCG8GC eMMC, 8" IPS WXGA (1280x800), Windows 10 Home 32-bit

- Asus ZenFone 2 ZE551ML: Intel Atom Z3580 (x86-based), PowerVR G6430, 4GB LPDDR3, 64GB eMMC, 5.5" IPS LCD 1080p, Android 6.0.1 (Asus ZenUI)

- New Nintendo 2DS XL

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5 hours ago, ErrystioT said:

Well, at least the HP still offer 1 USB type A which should ease you up a bit on dongles :D however if you need to read SD cards and display output to external screen, then you might need some dongles

Yeah but i'm not a fan of this future to be honest c: I mean unless they add like 6 USB C and if everything uses usb C in the future. but right now AFAIK the devices and cables are more expensive and I need expensive annoying dongles for everything. even in the future for devices like a macbook you'd only plug 2 devices only if you're not charging anything. unless you buy and use dongles ofc! Something like dell xps is nice though. having a usb c port and still offering the rest. the spectre is a lot better though :P

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