Laptop for 1700$

[TeddyBeer]

Hello people,

 

I have a friend that's quite deep in the apple ecosystem, and his macbook broke a few weeks back.

He surprised me when he asked me to come up with some propositions on a windows laptop for his price range.

Here are what he wants to do with it :

- work a full day without to much worries for the battery

- 13 inches

- desing is not a problem (he says every laptop just looks like a rectangle anyway)

- Not too bulky 

- light gaming on the side (I mean, he comes from a old macbook)

 

I don't really know a good value besides the dell xps 13, and he goes back to apple, I will take it as a defeat, so I come here for help.

[r2724r16]

http://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/dell-laptops-netbooks-and-tablets/new-xps-13-non-touch/spd/xps-13-9360-laptop/nxps9360r_ft_h744e

 

This will be okay for games like csgo and minecraft. It has a large battery and is relatively light. It has a good screen. And mainly, it isn't a mac

[Guest]

 

HP spectre 360

XPS 13 (i would get the touch variant, touch adds so much to a laptop)

[grimreeper132]

4 minutes ago, Rasbir Singh said:

http://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/dell-laptops-netbooks-and-tablets/new-xps-13-non-touch/spd/xps-13-9360-laptop/nxps9360r_ft_h744e

 

This will be okay for games like csgo and minecraft. It has a large battery and is relatively light. It has a good screen. And mainly, it isn't a mac

I don't get this obsession with rose gold it's a colour and it looks like shit, and it costs $50 more for fuck sake

[Streetguru]

13 minutes ago, TeddyBeer said:

 

You can have gaming or you can have battery life you can't really have both

Might just want to get a Blade 14 of some kind though, basically a black macbook anyways
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/razer-blade-14-laptop-intel-core-i7-16gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-256gb-solid-state-drive-black/5753108.p?skuId=5753108

[Gertraic]

If you want good battery life, the best I could suggest is buying up multiple batteries. and seeing if there's a way to externally charge them.

[genexis_x]

8 hours ago, Streetguru said:

Blade 14

Razer laptops suck, avoid

 

@TeddyBear Asus Zenbook 13 UX331UN, UX430UN or any Zenbook with the name ending 'N', HP Envy 13, Xiaomi Notebook Air, all with Kaby Lake Refresh CPU and MX150 GPU

[Streetguru]

2 minutes ago, ZM Fong said:

Razer laptops suck, avoid

 

@TeddyBear Asus Zenbook 13 UX331UN, UX430UN or any Zenbook with the name ending 'N', HP Envy 13, Xiaomi Notebook Air, all with Kaby Lake Refresh CPU and MX150 GPU

But every laptop sucks

 

at least the blade has like a GTX 1060 or something

[genexis_x]

3 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

at least the blade has like a GTX 1060 or something

OP mean light gaming, if he/she need a 1060 GPU then he will be choosing a gaming orientated laptop where only a few of them have decent battery life and good enough portability (Gigabyte Aero 15 for instance)