13" Laptop suggestions

Daz178

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Budget - £1k (a little room if its justifiable)
Purpose - Spreadsheets, general browsing, multimedia & games (nothing major, just cpu intensive games such as Football manager series & occasional strategic simulation game.
Size - around 13" preferably

My old laptop (15.6" Lenovo Y510p I7 4th gen 1TB HDD) recently broke and is deemed non repairable so I want an upgrade for my replacement. Following this, minimum requirement is i7 and SSD memory. I do normally have a ton of films and photos, with only a few games I think 256gb will do the job if I buy a external hard drive to store all the multimedia on. That said the more memory the better.
I travel around alot so this time want to go with a smaller laptop around 13" is perfect.


I've had a look around the past 4-5 days and come abit stuck. Everytime I look into each 'award-winning' laptop I see a large list of flaws that are hard to overlook. E.G XPS 13 coil whine, reliability and overheating in HP Spectre x360.

Anyone will experience in similar spec/size laptops being able to give a heads up is much appreciated!
 
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The two Asus have the same dual core CPU. The ux390ua looks like a more upscale unit and has double the RAM. The less expensive one has a QHD screen but honestly at that size, I don't see the benefit.

As far as the i7's with U designation. What I was trying to be polite about is the U i7's are just renamed i3's as far as I can tell. They have half the cores and less GHz than the full i7's. That being said, in your ultra book segment we aren't going to see full i7's in most cases.
Are you used to full 4C8T i7's or do you do a lot of CPU intensive work?

Only the Gaming Class laptops have the full i7's in that size.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Notebookcheck-s-Top-10-Lightweight-Gaming-Laptops.126456.0.html

Daz178

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Thanks for the link there, very useful information as I'm aware similar specs for each laptop doesn't necessarily bring the same results/performance.

Your last comment, how great is the benefit of a true i7 as opposed to a dual core with hyper threading?

I'm looking very closely at these two currently:

1 - https://www.scan.co.uk/products/133-asus-ux330ua-qhdplus-screen-core-i7-7500u-8gb-ram-512gb-m2-ssd-mhdmi-usb-type-c-only-12kg-135mm


2 - https://www.scan.co.uk/products/125-asus-ux390ua-fhd-led-screen-core-i7-7500u-16gb-ram-512gb-pcie-ssd-dp-ac-wifi-plus-bt-41-usb-30-t


Obviously abit of a price difference here but I'd rather pay the extra providing its justifiable if its going to suit my needs alot better.
 

MCMunroe

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The two Asus have the same dual core CPU. The ux390ua looks like a more upscale unit and has double the RAM. The less expensive one has a QHD screen but honestly at that size, I don't see the benefit.

As far as the i7's with U designation. What I was trying to be polite about is the U i7's are just renamed i3's as far as I can tell. They have half the cores and less GHz than the full i7's. That being said, in your ultra book segment we aren't going to see full i7's in most cases.
Are you used to full 4C8T i7's or do you do a lot of CPU intensive work?

Only the Gaming Class laptops have the full i7's in that size.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Notebookcheck-s-Top-10-Lightweight-Gaming-Laptops.126456.0.html
 
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