Laptop recomendations

[daniel49]

My current laptop is an Asus, but my biggest gripe about it was the cheap plastic shell it was housed in. The 2 halves of the shell were held together by about 10 screws on the bottom. These screws threaded into a metal sleeve that was embedded into the plastic of the case. Once the plastic broke or cracked, you have no where to secure the screw. I got around it by epoxying a small bolt to one side of the shell and running the threads out the bottom of the case where I threaded a nut onto the screw to hold everything together. Has worked fine for over a year that way. But for my next purchase I am wanting to possibly get a magnesium alloy case and get away from the plastic. Have found some suggestions here http://valuenomad.com/best-metal-laptops-review-dell-asus-acer/. I am not interested in a Mac. thx for input and suggestions for other laptops to consider. Also I notice that 256 GB solid state drives seem to be the standard now. That sounds so small in this era of multi terabyte drives?

 

[giantpandaman2]

I'd stay away from the consumer HP's. They tend to run too hot and break randomly. I'd go Thinkpad, Latitude, or Surface. I don't know your budget or usage, so I can't make any more specific recommendations.

 

[daniel49]

this is my current laptop seems to fit my needs fine anything north of these specs is a bonus. budget, I'd like to stay under a grand? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BC4QMVE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[giantpandaman2]

this is my current laptop seems to fit my needs fine anything north of these specs is a bonus. budget, I'd like to stay under a grand? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BC4QMVE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

What do you use it for? What's important to you other than durability?

 

[daniel49]

No hogs like cad or Bleeding edge gaming. I social network, email ,play flash games in browser. Schoolwork. so have to use programs like office, ftp, editors for basic programming, multitask a lot. Run a virtual machine occasionally, got into writing batch files last quarter, take some classes online, some networking classes coming up. Have a home network photo editing. most stuff is fairly low resource but may have several windows going on at same time. Watch videos tv shows on line. Hope that helps?

 

[giantpandaman2]

For schoolwork, especially for taking notes and what not, I don't think anything beats the Surface line. Once you master using Onenote, it's pretty much the best experience for computing on the go. The color/resolution of the screens should be fine for amateur photo work. The negatives are no upgrade/repair ability and battery life if you're looking at the Pro line. Right now there are very good sales going on for both refurbs and brand new.

If you want more durability/repairability I'd go for the Latitude 5000 line.

 

[Sweepr]

Here's two of my picks:

- If you want an all arounder with great performance (quad-core and dGPU) and don't mind thicker design or weight too much:

https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Inspiro...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=Y63W7FB1VKHZ33NGA39F

- If you want portability and a sleek looking notebook, NEC has a Lavie Z model for just over $1K that weights only 1.9 pound:

https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-13-3-...words=dell+xps+13&refinements=p_36:1253507011