Looking for new laptop

[Jaker788]

I have a friend that wants some help in finding a new laptop.  His current one is about 6 years old and falling apart at this point.

 

So, the requested features and specs are of the following:

 

• Touchscreen preferably
• Ability to play browser based games and app games from Windows store, no AAA games being played on it
• Budget of less than $1000 but I think a target of around $500 should get something good for the use case
• Needs Bluetooth
• Nice screen preferably 1080p and around 14-17inch if possible, preferably IPS for viewing angles and good color/contrast
• CPU and GPU speed only needs to be enough for small games and browsing, better is fine if the price is good
• SSD if possible for responsiveness and a secondary hard drive for storage
• HDMI output port is a must!

 

Newest gen processor would be best AMD if Ryzen is mobile yet or Intel.  Sipping power and staying Cool'n'Quiet ^tm is a nice thing to have.

 

That should be it.  He just needs a good laptop to replace the old one, and last for another 5 years hopefully while remaining snappy.  Something that you can watch movies on and display to a TV, play browser and app games.

i will do some reaserch of my own and post it below this. Maybe if anybody has some knowledge of the quality of my picks firsthand or by word of mouth could tell me if its worth it.

 

Thank you!

 

Things I've found that look good and have the needed features:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0742H4TKY/ref=ask_ql_qh_dp_hza

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0744MPDDN?psc=1&smid=A16YSFOH31M2GC

[kelvinhall05]

Some Asus Zenbook would be perfect, the only thing would be screen size, possibly price, storage, and on some the HDMI port.

[Crunchy Dragon]

ThinkPad P51? There's obviously a problem with price and slight mobility(I know someone with a P50, they move it around a lot so that may not be a problem but it depends on the person I guess)

 

https://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-p/Thinkpad-P51/p/22TP2WPWP51

 

 

[genexis_x]

Zenbooks with updated 8th gen ULV CPU