New laptop

[Vy]

I am about to finish school and go into university, so I am looking for a comfortable to use laptop. I really like the MacBook Pro 13" 2015, 256gb SSD, though it's a little bit expensive. I am kind of looking for something similar, but a little bit more cheap.

 

Edit: I am looking for an all-purpose laptop that I will take with me abroad when I go to university. I want it to last me the next ~4 ish years and be good enough for anything I'd like to do: lightweight gaming, programming, youtube etc.

 

My budget is:

 

• 1200€/1340$/930£ - I can add a hundred Euros or so if it's really worth it.
  

 

What kind of laptop I want:

 

• lightweight (~under 2.3kg preferably)
  
• good screen, size around 13"
  
• good quality build (I really like the aluminum build of apple laptops)
  
• reliable producer
  
• lightweight gaming (ill explain what kind of games I play in a separate paragraph)
  
• comfortable to use, good touch-pad.
  
• I am buying a laptop to last, so something that won't be obsolete in 2-3 years
  

 

Lightweight gaming: I generally play Civilization 5 and Counter Strike: Global Offensive. I'd love if the laptop would be able to run csgo (on low/medium settings) at at least around 60-80 stable fps. Would be awesome if it's able to run games like Fallout 4 on medium settings or so.

 

Thank you for any recommendations!

[matt]

https://www.google.com/intl/en_ca/chromebook/find/#?device=acer-chromebook-11

 

my class mate has this one and the battery life on it is insane. Lightweight and portable which is what you want for school. Keep video games out of the question for a laptop and use it primarily for school. Just my suggestion. good luck

[Vy]

https://www.google.com/intl/en_ca/chromebook/find/#?device=acer-chromebook-11

 

my class mate has this one and the battery life on it is insane. Lightweight and portable which is what you want for school. Keep video games out of the question for a laptop and use it primarily for school. Just my suggestion. good luck

It's not going to be primarily for school. Thing is, I am going abroad for university, so I want to have an all-purpose laptop that would easily last me the next 4 - 5 years. Should have probably made that clear, whops.

 

The chromebook looks nice, though it isn't something that I am looking for.

[Chaoz`]

Good notebook, for all purpose use.

 

http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/pcs/NP900X5L-K02US

 

Quite thin and not heavy to carry around and well within your price-range.

[Elemental]

Good notebook, for all purpose use.

 

http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/pcs/NP900X5L-K02US

 

Quite thin and not heavy to carry around and well within your price-range.

 

Might wanna get an external hard disk with that one, seeing as it has only a 260GB SSD hard drive.

Also, you might not wanna get a laptop with integrated graphics, if you want to be playing any games

 

@Vy

[Chaoz`]

Might wanna get an external hard disk with that one, seeing as it has only a 260GB SSD hard drive.

Also, you might not wanna get a laptop with integrated graphics, if you want to be playing any games

 

@Vy

 

For Civilization and CSGO are the integrated gfx more than enough.

260 GB is more than enough for a few games and data. Stupid to get an external HDD which adds more weight and and bulkyness to the total package.

[Elemental]

For Civilization and CSGO are the integrated gfx more than enough.

260 GB is more than enough for a few games and data. Stupid to get an external HDD which adds more weight and and bulkyness to the total package.

 

If I were going abroad for 4-5 years, I'd want more than 260GB. Windows alone will eat up alot of it.

Random junk here and there will eat up another chunk leaving maybe 180GB for data/games/schoolwork. Not enough IMO, but that's up to @Vy ofcourse.

 

Personally, I've also always had terrible experience with integrated graphics. It simply blows.

I'd be able to play Warcraft III on low settings with not too much going on in the screen, but shit like CS:GO, naw, no chance. (Then again, I did have a pretty shitty CPU in that laptop, together with integrated graphics)

Really depends what kinda games you want to be playing I guess, but again, you might find a nice game in the 4 years that you wanna play, only to find out you can't cause you got a shit integrated GFX, you'll cry. Better safe than sorry

[Chaoz`]

Windows requires a minimum of 60GB HDD/SSD. Tune-up Utilities is a good program to delete clutter and temp files and such. So you still have 200 GB left. For school and games and such, it should be more than enough.

 

The integrated GFX from a Skylake CPU is quite good tbh. Can't really compare it with shitty laptops from 3-5 years ago.

 

This is in the specs from CSGO: Video card must be 256 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for Pixel Shader 3.0

 

So the integrated GFX should be more than enough. This guy is even playing The Witcher 3 on low settings with the HD 530 integrated GFX from a i5-6600K. The Samsung Laptop has an i7-6500U. SO even better.

There is even a review with results in different games with FPS.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/skylake-intel-core-i7-6700k-core-i5-6600k,4252-9.html

So as i said you can't compare it.

[Vy]

For Civilization and CSGO are the integrated gfx more than enough.

260 GB is more than enough for a few games and data. Stupid to get an external HDD which adds more weight and and bulkyness to the total package.

I don't really understand why it's stupid.

 

For example, Transcend Military Drop Tested 1 TB USB 3.0 M3 External Hard Drive ($54.99) weights around 220 grams, that's less than a bottle of water. Not to mention you don't have to keep it connected to the laptop at all times. Can just keep it at home and use it whenever you need to.

 

If I were going abroad for 4-5 years, I'd want more than 260GB. Windows alone will eat up alot of it.

Random junk here and there will eat up another chunk leaving maybe 180GB for data/games/schoolwork. Not enough IMO, but that's up to @Vy ofcourse.

Exactly. The 256GB SSD model is a lot more expensive than actually getting an external SSD drive.

 

Personally, I've also always had terrible experience with integrated graphics. It simply blows.

I'd be able to play Warcraft III on low settings with not too much going on in the screen, but shit like CS:GO, naw, no chance. (Then again, I did have a pretty shitty CPU in that laptop, together with integrated graphics)

Really depends what kinda games you want to be playing I guess, but again, you might find a nice game in the 4 years that you wanna play, only to find out you can't cause you got a shit integrated GFX, you'll cry. Better safe than sorry

Well, in this case, I have already looked up if it was able to run Civ 5 and CS:GO without much problems. (it's fine according to many others)

 

I don't intend to max out the settings anyways.

 

Also, probably good to note that I won't really be playing a lot of "big title" games that come with high requirements to play. It's not because of the laptop or computer, it's just that I don't particularly like playing them and mostly play Indie games or web-browser games.

 

Windows requires a minimum of 60GB HDD/SSD. Tune-up Utilities is a good program to delete clutter and temp files and such. So you still have 200 GB left. For school and games and such, it should be more than enough.

Hold up, since when? It requires a 20-30GB partition at most and they plan on decreasing that. I am very sure my partition on my PC is far smaller than 60GB.

 

 

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Anyways, I got the MacBook Pro 13" Retina with 128GB SDD (everything else normal) with a huge discount from a friend (still in the box) for 780 euros. The thing on amazon goes for like 850 pounds, so that's quite a huge discount. (it was his birthday present to me). As far as gaming goes, it's not really great. But apart from that it's a very well built, fancy looking, feature filled laptop. If anything ill sell it for more and buy something else.

 

Thanks for all of your input though guys, really appreciated!

[Chaoz`]

60 GB is required. After installing Office and all the other programs.

Windows itself is almost 30 GB. So you won't be able to install anything else besides Windows if your partition is only 30 GB.

Tbh buying a MacBook Pro is a waste of money. Even if it's still cheap.