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So I am a new college student looking for a good laptop for anywhere between three and five hundred bucks. I'm trying to get good performance and long battery life together but would take performance over battery life. I do not like apple and we would prefer to do windows instead of Linux. I am also not very tech-savvy and do not know what I am looking for. So something affordable is the best option for me. I am willing to go both above and below of my price range. But I just need suggestions on laptops that needs to my purpose.

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Are you interested in Chromebooks or do you prefer Windows? And do you prefer new or used?

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New, and would prefer windows but willing to try Chromebook.

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18 minutes ago, Mr. Mobius said:

So I am a new college student looking for a good laptop for anywhere between three and five hundred bucks. I'm trying to get good performance and long battery life together but would take performance over battery life. I do not like apple and we would prefer to do windows instead of Linux. I am also not very tech-savvy and do not know what I am looking for. So something affordable is the best option for me. I am willing to go both above and below of my price range. But I just need suggestions on laptops that needs to my purpose.

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1 minute ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

What are you studying? That makes a difference. 

I'm currently doing Gen ed for my associates and then going off to fort hays state for clinical speech pathology. This will also be my first year in college since I graduated this last May.

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I'd look for a Lenovo T460/T460S on eBay or the local classifieds. Should be cheap, can be found with an i7, and you can buy additional batteries to spec it into a battery life monster.

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7 minutes ago, dizmo said:

I'd look for a Lenovo T460/T460S on eBay or the local classifieds. Should be cheap, can be found with an i7, and you can buy additional batteries to spec it into a battery life monster.

That or Dell Latitude e7000 series machines which look very smart.

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2 hours ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

That or Dell Latitude e7000 series machines which look very smart.

Aye, though I'm not sure on their battery life. Usually Dell's are super solid in that regard though.

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