Looking for laptop - Great battery life and lightweight

[Copenhagen69]

Looking for a nice lightweight laptop with great battery life and enough power to run 2-3 instances of bluestacks. Hopefully 8gb + ram and a 1920+ resolution as well. Price range sub $1500.

I was thinking maybe Samsung or asus ... but haven’t been laptop shopping in like 10 years haha. Mainly Samsung because I could link with my Samsung phone. Asus Zen seems very solid and good price.

What should I be looking into these days?

 

[Copenhagen69]

any thoughts on this?

 

[heymrdj]

What size are you thinking? You can’t beat the Dell XPS 13 for size, quality, power, and battery life all in one product. Good praise for the Lenovo Yoga 920 as well. Both come in models that fit your budget. For two in one ability, get the most Surface Pro (2017) you can afford.

 

[Copenhagen69]

size I can do anything from 13-15" I am not too particular there ... I will take a look at the XPS

 

[XMan]

This one is a bit more than your budget, but it's the one I've been considering myself:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077YSVKQK/ref=ask_ql_qh_dp_hza

 

[Copenhagen69]

oh wow, that is a great looking laptop there ... Wonder why it never has popped up in any of my top rated laptop searches

 

[heymrdj]

It's a good middle ground laptop. There's things that they cut down on that I could never be satisfied in for an Ultrabook, but it could be good if you're willing to deal with those caveats for the light weight. I won't go back to a poor cooling solution. My Sony Flip 13A (I5-4200U processor) can't keep the processor cool enough either with things like flash on web pages etc. So you can either run in passive mode and deal with processor throttling (800mhz-1.2Ghz average speed) and the screen shudders that brings as you scroll, or deal with a little more weight for more copper for better cooling.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/LG-Gram-15-i5-8250U-FHD-Laptop-Review.278060.0.html

 

[XMan]

Thanks for the review, it definitely sounds too flimsy for my purposes.

 

[pimpin-tl]

Thanks for the review, it definitely sounds too flimsy for my purposes.

Actually it is not that flimsy. To be light they have to use light but durable materials. Watch these reviews.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc6ODCqepb8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DrCl4DzQ2M

 

[UsandThem]

(Just my personal opinion and experiences, and not trying to pass it off as the gospel truth below):

I would personally look at the Dell XPS lineup. I've owned both an Asus and Samsung laptop in the last 8 years, and I personally wasn't that impressed. I actually passed down a Intel Sandy Bridge era XPS for my son to use a couple years ago when I bought a new one, and it's still going strong for him. They are really nice laptops (even though they have gotten pricey over the last several years).

 

[heymrdj]

Actually it is not that flimsy. To be light they have to use light but durable materials. Watch these reviews.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc6ODCqepb8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DrCl4DzQ2M

I don’t have WiFi this morning so I’m not running the entire video, but just loading the first video and seeing that screen flex is flimsy as hell to me. Everyone has their own definition and desires though.