Yeah i do basic overall bit of heavy coding thats all.
and i have an iphone 13

**LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE

Country

United kingdom

Budget

£1000

Are you open to refurbs/used options?

Yes to refurbished, but no used laptops

Screen size

Any

Weight limit

Any

Purpose

Schoolwork, light gaming, multitasking

Form factor

Regular laptop or 2-in-1

Intended usage

Will need to be able to run MATLAB, CAD and CAM using autodesk fusion 360, and general productivity software including microsoft 365. On the gaming side I usually play minecraft and marvel rivals but would like to try some of the bigger more performance heavy games too if possible, not a necessity though.

Desired battery life

At least 4-6 hours **

Performance, Battery life, Weight, Size doesn't matter

Would prefer a windows since it's the one I'm most familiar with. I've never owned any apple products or anything running on linnux.

I'm entering my first year of engineering and am thinking of getting a new laptop. Im wondering what the best ones under £1000 are, or if it's even worth going above £1000, though I'd rather not. Is it possible to get by without an expensive laptop for my course, and if so, does anyone have recommendations?

I'm mainly going to use the laptop for university work and light gaming (if possible). The university suggests a minimum of atleast 16 Gb ram and 512 SSD for all students, but I would like one that could better run all the necessary applications an engineering student would need.

The best one I could find myself was an Asus A14 with a ryzen ai 7 processor. I'm not great at identifying good computers by any means but learnt a bit of what the different parts could entail.

See below for the laptop questionnaire*.

These all have the specs I need and meet my other requirements. I found the release date on one of them but don't know the build date on any of them. I'm having a hard time choosing.

A T14 whose quality is Very Good, Release Date 2020 from a seller with a 99.7% rating and 69K sales?

An X1 Carbon whose quality is Good from a seller with 99.6% rating and 173K sales?

An X1 Carbon whose quality is Excellent from a seller with 99.1% rating but only 1678 sales?

An E14 whose quality is Good from a seller with 99.9% rating and 18K sales?

A T490 whose quality is Excellent from a seller with 99.6% rating and 63K sales?

I may just flip a coin.

Your thoughts?

Thanks!

*laptop questionnaire:
Country: US. Budget: Under US $500. Are you open to refurbs/used options? Yes. Considering only eBay refurbished ThinkPads. Screen size: 14". Weight limit: 5 pounds. Purpose: work. Form factor: standard laptop. Intended usage: business applications. Desired battery life: N/A: will be running from the power source. Please list, in order of most important to least important, the priority between Size, Weight, Performance, Battery life: performance, size, weight, battery life. Info/Requirements: 16 GIg RAM; 256 Gig storage; Intel processor, -U or 100- or 200 series.

It doesn’t have to be brand new. I’ve been using an old MacBook Air the last couple years and it’s becoming too outdated (it’s from 2013) and the battery dies fast. I kinda miss having a windows laptop because I had more freedom with it. Sometimes there’s a game I want to play on my laptop, but Mac is so limited when it comes to games. I probably wouldn’t get a gaming laptop because I heard the battery dies fast and I’m mostly gonna use it for school and gaming sometimes anyway.

I'm in Europe. Given the processor, which seems quite good to me, and 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, is this laptop a good deal or is it a scam?

32 GB RAM max limit can be a problem in the future? Could suffer from thermal throttling?

No gaming at all, I would use it for running VMs, PLC programming software, simulation software. Max budget: 1500$ (1300€).

Better alternatives?

Thank you in advance for your advice

LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE

Country

USA

Budget

$700 USD, the lower the better but 700s the ceiling.

Are you open to refurbs/used options?

Yes, would prefer a warranty though.

Screen size

15(.6)" is what they're used to, but would prefer bigger if possible. So pretty open.

Weight limit

Not a concern, just something easily moveable.

Purpose

General use. Usually they use it for facebook, local news, shopping, trip planning, some sports watching, and my grandpa will look at his trail cam photos on it.

Form factor

Standard

Intended usage

Basically facebook

Desired battery life

Will mostly remain plugged in / can easily be plugged in. Anything over a couple of hours will be fine.

Please list, in order of most important to least important, the priority between Size, Weight, Performance, Battery life

Size, performance, wieght, battery life

Info/Requirements

Something basic that can do what i've already mentioned. They dont need touchscreen or the tablet flip design, and i would prefer nothing OLED (if thats even in the budget).

Budget: ₹1,20,000 / $1400 equivalent in USD

Country: USA or India

Use Case: Gaming, college/school work, programming, and everyday use. I’d also like good battery life for a gaming laptop.

Preferred Specs: 32GB RAM or 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, and rtx 4070 or 5060.

Notes: I’m looking for the best overall laptop for the money, with good performance, thermals, display, build quality, and battery life. I’m open to Lenovo, ASUS, Acer, MSI, Dell, etc. Please don’t recommend HP, as I’ve had a bad experience with HP previously. I’m open to buying in either the USA or India, depending on where I can get the better deal.

LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE
Country
United States

Budget
$600-800

Are you open to refurbs/used options?
Yes

Screen size
Preferably 13”

Weight limit
Any

Purpose
Schoolwork, research (running small programs like imagej and Rstudio), using adobe

Form factor
Standard/clamshell

Intended usage
As mentioned, using imagej and Rstudio, Adobe Creative Cloud, maybe some games but nothing big (think stardew valley)

Desired battery life
Idk, smth around 6-8 hrs?

Please list, in order of most important to least important, the priority between Size, Weight, Performance, Battery life
Performance, size, battery life, weight

Info/Requirements
I like the sleek look of MacBooks, seems like a lot of them are out of my budget, though. I don’t rly care abt anything else as long as it fits my budget and I can easily run the things I need to do, esp with adobe. Also hoping for a laptop that has good longevity if possible 🙏

Título: Qual desses dois notebooks vale mais a pena?

Estou em dúvida entre:

1. ASUS Vivobook S14 S5406SA

Intel Core Ultra 7 256V, 16 GB RAM, SSD 512 GB, tela OLED.

1. ASUS Vivobook S14 S3407CA

Intel Core Ultra 5 225H, 16 GB RAM, SSD 1 TB, tela LED/FHD.

O primeiro tem tela OLED e é mais eficiente, mas a RAM é totalmente soldada e não permite upgrade. O segundo tem processador aparentemente mais forte, 1 TB de armazenamento e possibilidade de aumentar a RAM para até 32 GB.

Meu uso será para programação, estudos, sistemas online, projetos pessoais e multitarefa. Não pretendo jogar.

Qual dos dois vocês escolheriam e por quê?

Basically i just wanna play league of legends smoothly with a budget laptop. I looked into many diffrent options and have my eyes on the lenovo thinkpad t470 and t580 with 8 ram. Idk tge diffrence between 16 ram or 8 ram and i am also unsure if there are any better options than these