Looking for an unicorn

[Zimbabwe]

Hi all. I'm looking for a new laptop. I've had a lenovo thinkpad E/L480 in mind for a long while because it fits most of my criteria except for a few niggles. However, I took a fancy to the idea of being able to play some fairly recent games on the laptop... so my revised list of criteria became:

- can play something like cities skylines, no need for more than a gtx 1050;
- RAM upgradable to 16~32GB in case I have to deal with virtualization on the job;

- 1080p screen, matte, bright enough to be used outside in the shade;
- good keyboard is paramount, it's the main reason behind me choosing the aforementioned thinkpads, good typing feel and Pg up/down keys available via Fn key on the arrow keys, at the very least;
- less than 2.5kgs preferable;

- no more than 15.6" screen size, smaller is better though;
- at least 5 hours of battery life.

[edit] and not a lot of gamer bling!
 

I'm in Portugal(don't mind ordering from elsewhere in Europe) and would prefer to keep it under 1000€, but willing to go to 1200€.

Thanks in advance!

[Crunchy Dragon]

Have you considered the ThinkPad P52s?

 

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-p/ThinkPad-P52s/p/22TP2WPP52S

[John Ellmaker]

A unicorn not an unicorn just FYI 

[AirSocial]

https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/Laptop/Sabre-15-K8#kf

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-SABRE15K-CF1-15-6-Inch-i7-7700HQ-Processor/dp/B071ZBCYS8/ref=sr_1_20?ie=UTF8&qid=1532493201&sr=8-20&keywords=laptop+1050+ti

 

15.6 Screen 1080p

Up to 32gbs Ram

1050 Ti

SSD

[iKingRPG]

15 minutes ago, Zimbabwe said:

Hi all. I'm looking for a new laptop. I've had a lenovo thinkpad E/L480 in mind for a long while because it fits most of my criteria except for a few niggles. However, I took a fancy to the idea of being able to play some fairly recent games on the laptop... so my revised list of criteria became:

- can play something like cities skylines, no need for more than a gtx 1050;
- RAM upgradable to 16~32GB in case I have to deal with virtualization on the job;

- 1080p screen, matte, bright enough to be used outside in the shade;
- good keyboard is paramount, it's the main reason behind me choosing the aforementioned thinkpads, good typing feel and Pg up/down keys available via Fn key on the arrow keys, at the very least;
- less than 2.5kgs preferable;

- no more than 15.6" screen size, smaller is better though;
- at least 5 hours of battery life.
 

I'm in Portugal(don't mind ordering from elsewhere in Europe) and would prefer to keep it under 1000€, but willing to go to 1200€.

Thanks in advance!

Found one to considor: https://goo.gl/bgvaou

Also, nice click-baity title.

[genexis_x]

21 minutes ago, Zimbabwe said:

I'm in Portugal(don't mind ordering from elsewhere in Europe)

Any links of online stores?

[iKingRPG]

1 minute ago, ZM Fong said:

Any links of online stores?

 

1 minute ago, ZM Fong said:

Any links of online stores?

https://goo.gl/bgvaou

[Zimbabwe]

50 minutes ago, ZM Fong said:

Any links of online stores?

Shop aggregators:

https://www.kuantokusta.pt/informatica/Computadores/Portateis
https://geizhals.eu/

and the usual suspects
https://www.amazon.co.uk/ or .de .es

 

57 minutes ago, iKingRPG said:

Found one to considor: https://goo.gl/bgvaou

I forgot to mention, I'd also prefer a more subdued laptop style, not too much gamer bling

 

54 minutes ago, AirSocial said:

https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/Laptop/Sabre-15-K8#kf

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-SABRE15K-CF1-15-6-Inch-i7-7700HQ-Processor/dp/B071ZBCYS8/ref=sr_1_20?ie=UTF8&qid=1532493201&sr=8-20&keywords=laptop+1050+ti

This one actually looks fairly decent.

 

54 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Have you considered the ThinkPad P52s?

unfortunately prices in Europe are something more akin to this:

 

 

53 minutes ago, John Ellmaker said:

A unicorn not an unicorn just FYI 

thanks, typical mistake for me who never actually speaks english...

[Crunchy Dragon]

9 hours ago, Zimbabwe said:

unfortunately prices in Europe are something more akin to this:

 

thanks, typical mistake for me who never actually speaks english...

Ah, that dang conversion rate...

 

Your english seems pretty good, though!

[iKingRPG]

23 hours ago, Zimbabwe said:

 

 

I forgot to mention, I'd also prefer a more subdued laptop style, not too much gamer bling

 

 

Got it. Try asking @Windows on Twitter becasue they do this reccomendation stuff and reply fast.

[genexis_x]

On 7/25/2018 at 12:23 PM, Zimbabwe said:

good keyboard is paramount

Most business laptops have good keyboard but many of them don't have dGPU. I suggest you try out the keyboard yourself in other models

 

Are you able to buy from other countries like Germany?