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fluidistic
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Hello! I need a new laptop, because my current HP laptop has less than 2 hours of battery life (and is extremely slow due to 5400 rpm HDD and Intel Celeron N2830 processor and has a lot more problems that I won't mention here.) and I need at least 7 hours.
Usually the 1st step is to figure out what one'd do with the laptop. I am not even sure about it! I need it for making presentations and carry it with my in my backpack. When I'm not home, I'd like it to last a full day (so that I don't have to carry the charger with me) of work, i.e. around 7 hours. I am not sure whether I'd run number crunching programs. I guess not, because I have a deskptop pc for that. Maybe I might need to compile Latex docs, but I used to do that with my old Celeron without too much pain (used to take over 40 s to compile a 30 pages doc.)
I do not want a DVD reader/writer slot (I won't buy a laptop that has this hardware bloat since I'll never, ever use it). I do not want a HDD, I want a SSD with at least 128 GB. I won't buy a laptop that has both since I'd avoid to use the HDD like the plague and worry about battery life due to it.
I am located in France, so this discard many US options.
Budget: no more than 800 euros. I'd like around 400 euros if possible.
Processor: I'd like to have at least an i3, unless someone tells me a Celeron or Pentium would be worth considering. I am not sure whether the Celeron or the HDD is the bottleneck in my current laptop, but I find it too slow, it's almost a torture now that I'm used to lightning fast computers. I'd prefer 8th gen's Intel cpu's. They are a massive improvement over the 7th gen for laptops, so much more can be done for the same power consumption.
RAM: I don't care at all about it. 4 GB is already much more than enough. (I use less than 2 GB on my desktop pc, a core i7 7700, even though the cpu is crunching numbers during hours.)
So far I've been looking at Ideapads and Thinkpads. I find both Lenovo laptops rather expensive but maybe I missed some models.
It needs to have a good Linux compatibility but I do not worry too much about that. I'll google about it, before buying it, of course. I will not use Windows.
Usually the 1st step is to figure out what one'd do with the laptop. I am not even sure about it! I need it for making presentations and carry it with my in my backpack. When I'm not home, I'd like it to last a full day (so that I don't have to carry the charger with me) of work, i.e. around 7 hours. I am not sure whether I'd run number crunching programs. I guess not, because I have a deskptop pc for that. Maybe I might need to compile Latex docs, but I used to do that with my old Celeron without too much pain (used to take over 40 s to compile a 30 pages doc.)
I do not want a DVD reader/writer slot (I won't buy a laptop that has this hardware bloat since I'll never, ever use it). I do not want a HDD, I want a SSD with at least 128 GB. I won't buy a laptop that has both since I'd avoid to use the HDD like the plague and worry about battery life due to it.
I am located in France, so this discard many US options.
Budget: no more than 800 euros. I'd like around 400 euros if possible.
Processor: I'd like to have at least an i3, unless someone tells me a Celeron or Pentium would be worth considering. I am not sure whether the Celeron or the HDD is the bottleneck in my current laptop, but I find it too slow, it's almost a torture now that I'm used to lightning fast computers. I'd prefer 8th gen's Intel cpu's. They are a massive improvement over the 7th gen for laptops, so much more can be done for the same power consumption.
RAM: I don't care at all about it. 4 GB is already much more than enough. (I use less than 2 GB on my desktop pc, a core i7 7700, even though the cpu is crunching numbers during hours.)
So far I've been looking at Ideapads and Thinkpads. I find both Lenovo laptops rather expensive but maybe I missed some models.
It needs to have a good Linux compatibility but I do not worry too much about that. I'll google about it, before buying it, of course. I will not use Windows.