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Looking for laptop - Great battery life and lightweight

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Copenhagen69

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