New laptop needed ~700$

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shelaby

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Hey guys,

Havent had a laptop in about 4 years now and I am finally in need of one, problem is that I have been out of the mobile computing loop for some time now. I mostly browse/email/microsoft office/very minor use of photoshop

Looking to spend around 700$ and here is my checklist:

I dont care about gaming on it
I would like a smaller laptop (13-14", need it to be mobile/light)
I think I would ideally like an ultrabook, but Im not sure there are any decent ones in the price range
Good battery life (~5hrs or more would be great)
I would be using a mouse most of the time so trackpad/point quality doesnt really matter to me

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
 
Sunburn74

Sunburn74

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The vaoi looks very impressive. Honestly though at 700 there isn't a whole lot that meets your pricepoint

You can consider the HP sleekbooks/ultrabooks, as well as the lenovo u310. Also the Acer S3 is still remarkably cheap, though I'm not sure how replaceable the hard drive is because I'd certainly want more than the hybrids that are stock with it.

I think honestly, I would just pony up the extra cash and step up to the 999 mark where you can possibly afford a dell xps 13, and the asus UX31a depending on the vendor. The reason I say this is, none of the aforementioned laptops (with the exception of maybe the acer) have real long term potential in terms of build quality and if you're going to spend 700+ you might as well be buying something that will stick around for 3-5 years imo, rather thansomething you'll be joneseing to get rid of in just 7 months.

Oh one more thing: I'd also take a look at some full sizes laptops that are fairly thin like the HP envy series and the Dell XPXz series simply because they frequently have crazy discounts and again are gorgoeous machines to use.
 
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Sunburn74 said:
The vaoi looks very impressive. Honestly though at 700 there isn't a whole lot that meets your pricepoint

You can consider the HP sleekbooks/ultrabooks, as well as the lenovo u310. Also the Acer S3 is still remarkably cheap, though I'm not sure how replaceable the hard drive is because I'd certainly want more than the hybrids that are stock with it.

I think honestly, I would just pony up the extra cash and step up to the 999 mark where you can possibly afford a dell xps 13, and the asus UX31a depending on the vendor. The reason I say this is, none of the aforementioned laptops (with the exception of maybe the acer) have real long term potential in terms of build quality and if you're going to spend 700+ you might as well be buying something that will stick around for 3-5 years imo, rather thansomething you'll be joneseing to get rid of in just 7 months.

Oh one more thing: I'd also take a look at some full sizes laptops that are fairly thin like the HP envy series and the Dell XPXz series simply because they frequently have crazy discounts and again are gorgoeous machines to use.
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The Acer S3 (imo but mentioned in reviews too) has bad build quality and battery life. The sleekbooks were made nice though (Best Buy's purpose is to go grope and tilt laptops then order it online :p)
 
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shelaby

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I actually couldn't pass up the vaio with rebate and gc, so far I'm loving it, very upgradeable, ram slot for another 4gb (8 gb total), hdd is upgradeable, even the 32gb ssd is upgradeable if you want to take the laptop apart (note the original 500 gb hdd is not a hybrid hdd/sad)

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