im looking for a laptop
something portable to be able to walk 30 minutes with and not have any issue
something that can do word processing and internet surfing for uni
something that is quick and wont be slow
something with webcam for skype and video log
looking for as low as possible but willing to pay extra if its worth it
Student laptop?
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do not tell me to buy a mac, i have a mac mini at home so i know all about them, and the laptops have flash drives which could fry at any second so i do not wish for one, looking for windows laptop (unfortunately) 7 or 8 not too fussed
and also i do not want touch screen i see no sense in a touch screen laptop
Answers (3)
Most of your spec points towards an ultrabook, although that is overkill for just word processing & surfing the web.
One to look at is the Dell XPS13 which is only 1.36kg, 13" screen (without a touch screen) & 6mm in thickness, but a hefty £1079.
Samsung Series 7 Ultra, 13" screen, at £900, is another to look at & well liked by the computer magazines, but comes with a 10 point touch screen (you do not have to use it, but most believe its essential for Windows 8). Samsungs Series 5 is much cheaper & also well regarded.
All of the above will give 5 hours of use off the battery.
Hope this starts you off, but do go down to your local store & see how they feel.
I find laptops too bulky to be transported around with you every day. I do have a laptop but only use it to move around the house with (i.e. when I want to send an email in bed). For normal computer use on the move, I use a netbook. They are considerably smaller, cheaper and lighter than laptops and would do everything you want. Alternatively a tablet with a wireless keyboard if you want to do word processing could work. I have a ten inch and a four inch mini-tablet and even the four inch tablet can word process and has a camera, etc., for Skype. I only paid thirty five pounds for it brand new.
Something more affordable is the Asus Vivobook S200, quick with an Intelu 3i cpu, fairly light & petite with a 11.3" screen +5hrs battery life @ a reasonable £450.
Kangaroo does have a very good point about netbooks & tablets thou for great portability, low cost & worry against loss or damage . However content creation is not there forte even with a bluetooth keyboard except prehaps Samsungs Note tablets with their S Pen stylus. I have a Note 2 phone 5.5"screen, & am amazed with the ease I can take minutes @ meetings (converted directly into text as I write) this combined with Wolfram Alpha when online ability to recognise both scientific & mathematical notation. The ability record audio, film to copy diagrams/ powerpoint slides with its camera. There are many good apps that will convert S notes to. word doc.s or you can write into a compatible Office suite such as Kingsoft (free) which I do & upload to a PC at the end of the day makes it a formidable versatile piece of equipment! In the 10" form it must be a breeze to use & well worth checking out. Sorry I didn't mean go on about the Note so much, but it has been a long time since I have found some things so useful to me!