Looking for a laptop for university

[Mr.Blocko]

I literally said it's starting at <$1000
how the duck are you interpreting that?
I'm interpreting it as "it's starting at less than one thousand dollars, which is under budget and could be a good match"

hehe

Bu the reason why is because you posted the price, instead of just saying "This is a good match" so my mind went to, SOMETHING IS WRONG, and I went to go check.

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[Frankie²]

Lenovo y50

>lenovo
>"up to 5 hour battery"
yeah no

[phflack]

I find i'm always plugged in, even if my battery will last 6-8 hours coding

I wouldn't be too concerned about it

[Georges]

>lenovo
>"up to 5 hour battery"
yeah no

okay, if it only gets 5 hours, that's not that great but basically everything else about the Y50 is great.

[XR-7]

Ooh sorry to steal the spotlight but Im looking for one too!

^

Especially since it's a gigantic pain to use my crap family laptops at home because there's always people on them and they're garbage anyway.

[Oasis]

Anything but this, it has Intel HD graphics, wouldn't run CS:GO for stuff.

How intensive do you think CSGO is? lol

Here ya go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujej9Tm14M8

[General]

I strongly recommend you get 8GB of ram though, it's the standard nowadays. 4GB will likely force windows to use paging while you multitask and that will dramatically reduce the performance of your computer.

[carolcat]

Ooh sorry to steal the spotlight but Im looking for one too! I want one that just runs fast enough to the point where I can take notes on it and access the internet every once in a while for research. I want it to be pretty small too

try looking into some ultrabooks. they're really thin, really light, and are supposed to have excellent battery life. the dell xps 13 and the asus zenbook series might be a good start.

[Frankie²]

okay, if it only gets 5 hours, that's not that great but basically everything else about the Y50 is great.

its chink garbage, along with every single other lenovo product

[sir dooble]

PCspecialist.co.uk do some decently priced laptops.
They give you some attractive chassis' which you can then pick-and-mix compatible parts for.
They then build it and deliver it for free.

I bought my laptop from them last year for uni and it has worked perfectly. Only cost me £760, while the base model cost about £640. 
Worth having a look through, I think.

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Lenovo y50

[ZSNO]

FUN FACT: CPU usually matters more for Source Engine games than GPU because of how it was engineered.
Basically you'll probably need a better CPU than your GPU.

[Trymos]

http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-air

These are easily the best laptops for university due to the extremely good battery life, and the intel hd 6000 isn't half bad at gaming either and CS:GO runs perfectly fine on it.

Only differences between the options is screen size and storage size.

[ZSNO]

I've heard that the Mac version of CSGO is slightly unstable and has some unusual bugs.

[Mr.Blocko]

How intensive do you think CSGO is? lol

Here ya go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujej9Tm14M8

He said decent settings and framerate, so around Medium, not all low at 30fps or lower like shown in the video, so no, surface is not HIS solution, but a lot of other peoples probably.