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Help me pick a laptop

on 5/23/2016

Posts: 424

I need a new laptop. I want to use it for my studies, some webuse with tons of tabs and some documents. It needs to be light, fairly good batterytime and it's a plus if it has a glowing keyboard. Oh, and a reasonable price around give or take $1800, nothing over $2400, and preferably closer to $1200. And no touch ^^

Sooo here is some computery stuff for you computery people who understands this nonsense of numbers and letters:

Size: 12"-16"
2GHz-4GHz
RAM: 8GB-16GB
Batterytime: 12-20 hours
Weight: under 1.5 kg

The laptops I've looked at for now are the following:
Macbook air 13" (128GB, 256GB and 512GB)
Macbook 12" (1.1GHz 8GB 256GB SSD)
Apple Macbook Pro Retina
Dell XPS (1 vote on this)
Fujitsu Lifebook (S935 and S936)
HP Elitebook 840
Toshiba kira (-109, -10q)
Toshiba portege (Z30-B-142, Z30-B-14Z, Z30-C-12C, Z30-C-12H, Z30-B-107, Z30-B-11T)
Toshiba Satellite (Z30-B-10C, Z30-B-10W)
Acer (recommended by ana, not sure which to pick though, if picking acer)

I've heard lenovo is no good, so please don't take that brand into concideration when helping me finding my new laptop. As you've seen I can't even make up my mind if I should pick a macbook or a windows, or which windows operating system to pick.

And what's a chromebook? It seems like there is chromebooks from many different brands and they're all affordable...

Please help me! :)

Oh and this advice might be helpful "just buy a less expensive one with more storage and batterytime" ^^

Love you,
Mika

Aaaaagh this is giving me headache.

by hdiver

on 5/23/2016

Posts: 580

i have used the dells and the toshibas with no problems. i like both

i have about 15 different laptops

i have had problems with a samsung power plug. i only have one samsung so probably not fair to judge

by Missy

on 5/23/2016

Posts: 424

That doesn't look light at all -.-

But I don't trust laptop forums with computery people that talk all computery with eachother, and what if they get money from companies to recommend stuff, I'd get all paranoid. I trust my sociopaths 0:)

by anastacia

on 5/23/2016

Posts: 2829

You don't have ASUS listed but my last two laptops have been by them and I've been extremely pleased with their performances.

by WW3

on 5/23/2016

Posts: 1581

jesus im sure you'd get more helpful replies on a laptop forum.

if theres one laptop i recommend its this one. the dell latitude e6430 atg

you can get this off of ebay for a couple hundred dollars

by Missy

on 5/23/2016

Posts: 424

Thank you for your input :) I shall see what asus there is and add them. Hopefully, I'll learn something new that will decrease the number of choices soon ^-^

by Empressing

on 5/23/2016

Posts: 160

Lenovo is a good laptop company. I have the spectre by HW. It is the one with touch screen and pen touch and pen screen. I got the pen for 50$. It takes a special battery that is hard to find unless you go to staples.

by SensitiveSoul

on 5/24/2016

Posts: 1842

You going for a new computer? Or they seem to have cheap refurb ones here: http://www.kvalitetsdatorer.se/

They have HP Elitebook Premiums if you happen to be interested in stuff like that.

by nate

on 5/25/2016

Posts: 2