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My mom has put me in charge of finding her a new laptop since she is retiring in the next couple of weeks.  She just does emails, browses the web, and says she will store photos and video on it*

She only wants a Windows laptop

13"-14"

a touch screen would be nice

She wants it at $500 or bellow (seems ambitious)

something light

 

My first thought was finding her a decent $500 laptop that is not a POS will be pretty hard.  Second, while she can get away with something less than an i5 and she doesn't need 8th gen, I think 8GB should be standard since she always has a ton of Chrome tabs open while shopping, plus it future proofs it.  I am a little bewildered when she says she wants enough space to store photos and videos on her laptop since my dad takes care of that with his countless backup drives on his many Macs.  I am guessing 256 is more than enough  

 

So anyone know of any good deal? or can recommend a $500 laptop?

my other thought was giving her my XPS 9560, which I know is 15.6" and way overkill for her but she would be set with 512GB and 16GB of Ram

I also was looking at the new 9560 and can get one with a i5 8th gen, 256GB, 8GB, with a fingerprint reader for $950 shipped w/ taxes from the Dell Outlet "new"

 

 

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Is this going to be used as a laptop (taking it places)? 

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Intel Core i7 7800X 6C/12T (4.5GHz), Corsair H150i Pro RGB (360mm), Asus Prime X299-A, Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (4X4GB & 2X8GB 3000MHz DDR4), MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming X 8G (2.113GHz core & 9.104GHz memory), 1 Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB NVMe M.2, 1 Samsung 850 Pro 256GB SSD, 1 Samsung 850 Evo 500GB SSD, 1 WD Red 1TB mechanical drive, Corsair RM750X 80+ Gold fully modular PSU, Corsair Obsidian 750D full tower case, Corsair Glaive RGB mouse, Corsair K70 RGB MK.2 (Cherry MX Red) keyboard, Asus VN247HA (1920x1080 60Hz 16:9), Audio Technica ATH-M20x headphones & Windows 10 Home 64 bit. 

 

 

The time Linus replied to me on one of my threads: 

 

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1 hour ago, YaqinHasan said:

vivobook

Generally mediocre build quality and battery life. Also OKish input devices.

2 hours ago, Jrasero said:

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Could you provide some links of online stores in your country?

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https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-13-3-Touchscreen-Convertible-i5-7200U/dp/B01M4HQO1M?SubscriptionId=AKIAJ76EIXAV3V6D6JEQ&tag=globalnetwork-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01M4HQO1M

what about this

https://www.amazon.com/VivoBook-Touchscreen-Processor-Storage-Switchable/dp/B077BL6GLH?SubscriptionId=AKIAJ76EIXAV3V6D6JEQ&tag=globalnetwork-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B077BL6GLH

or this

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