Laptop for school. Which one of these would be ideal? Would you reccomend any others?

[Lightswitch77]

Here´s the deal, i need a laptop for school and after a few days of research i´ve come to these conclusions. What would be the best choice?

I´m looking for the best keyboard, screen and looks. Battery life shouldn´t be much of a concern but i´d rather have it as quiet as possible under slight to mid load.

 

Name:                               Model i´d be buying:

 

Asus zenbook UX430UA - i5 8250U, 8gb 2133mhz, 256gb sata3 m.2 ssd

Asus vivobook S410UN - i5 8250U, 8gb 2133mhz 256gb ssd, nvidia geforce MX150

Acer swift 5 - i5 8250U, 8gb 2133mhz, 256gb NVMe

HP nootebook 14 - i5 8250U, 8gb 2400mhz, 256gb NVMe

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The Asus vivobook S510UA - i7 8550U, 8gb ram, 512 gb ssd and the HP spectre are sligthly out of budget but could be a possibility if they´re alot better than the others that are listed.

The Dell xps 13 9370/9360 - i5´s 8gb, 128gb and the Huawei matebook X pro - i5 8250U, 8gb, 256gb are also possibilities but would require the hassel of ordering off of amazon which comes with added risk.

 

Please do share with me your thoughts and reccommendations thank you.

 

[GeoffLucas]

What are you going to be doing in school?

[GeoffLucas]

I ask in large part as best keyboards are pretty subjective and you would probably be best served by going to a store in person and trying keyboards.  Looks are also subjective.  Screen recommendations would lean heavily on intended uses - professional graphics design vs gaming vs general interneting would probably get very different responses.

[Lightswitch77]

Just now, GeoffLucas said:

I ask in large part as best keyboards are pretty subjective and you would probably be best served by going to a store in person and trying keyboards.  Looks are also subjective.  Screen recommendations would lean heavily on intended uses - professional graphics design vs gaming vs general interneting would probably get very different responses.

Yes i get where you´re coming from. But i´ll be doing some pretty light office work. But i also intend on using it for general internet browsing and media consumption

[GeoffLucas]

I would say get whichever computer you like the looks of best.  Check out their keyboards / screens in a store if you can to see if any are deal-breakers.

 

Any of the computers you have above will be fine for that type of workload (realistically, even a couple of year old computer that had good starting specs would still work well for that workload).  I wouldn't bother upgrading to the 8550u as it's main difference is slightly higher clock speeds and these won't be very noticeable in your workloads.

 

None of them should be load enough to really notice under that workload.  

 

I can see that the Acer Swift 5 comes with an IPS screen which is always nice.   The HPs seem to come with multiple versions of screens so be careful to know which one you're getting with them.

[Lightswitch77]

30 minutes ago, GeoffLucas said:

I would say get whichever computer you like the looks of best.  Check out their keyboards / screens in a store if you can to see if any are deal-breakers.

 

Any of the computers you have above will be fine for that type of workload (realistically, even a couple of year old computer that had good starting specs would still work well for that workload).  I wouldn't bother upgrading to the 8550u as it's main difference is slightly higher clock speeds and these won't be very noticeable in your workloads.

 

None of them should be load enough to really notice under that workload.  

 

I can see that the Acer Swift 5 comes with an IPS screen which is always nice.   The HPs seem to come with multiple versions of screens so be careful to know which one you're getting with them.

Okey thank you very much

[genexis_x]

19 hours ago, Lightswitch77 said:

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Only these models?

 

Preferred max weight? Usage? Budget? Location?

[Lightswitch77]

On 27/08/2018 at 1:26 PM, ZM Fong said:

Only these models?

 

Preferred max weight? Usage? Budget? Location?

Pref no heavier than 1.5kg, general internet stuff, microsoft office work and some LoL, pref under 900$ which translated to Icelandic money would be ~130.000 kr.

No not only these, i thought i had included in the post that if you have any other suuggestions that you think are better then please do share them.

 

Sorry im late

[genexis_x]

Any links of online stores?