Solved! Best Laptop for Battery Life, light weight and less bugs

Jan 19, 2019
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I am a physics major graduate students who will be working with Python or maybe Visual basics. I really have a bad experience on my old laptop Vostro 3300 Dell which its battery died just after a year! If I want to spend 2k$ USD for a laptop, I wanna buy something which has the LONGEST BATTERY LIFE. Also, not having bugs is so crucial for me. The other preference is having a good keyboard and not having glass like screenwhich reflects everything! The laptop should have these details:

1-Core i7
2-16GB
3-minimum 512 GB RAM

Carbon X1:
Cons:

    The keyboard and the whole laptop gets dirty
    The worst fingerprint
    little Pad
    It has glass like screen

Pros:

    lightweight
    Powerful
    It is lenovo!


Macbook Pro 13"
Cons:

    1- It seems that if the motherboard destroyed, all you data would disappear

    2- I am not sure the battery life would decrease because it is core i7 compared to core i5.

    3- glass like screen

    4- Clicky and crunchy keyboard!


Pros:

    Design!
    OS reportedly has less bugs than windows.


Other options:
Hp spectra
Xps
Surface

Please
help me
I really need a help
Thank you
 
Solution

    Only the Thinkpads with touchscreens are glossy. The non-touchscreens are matte (and get better battery life anyway).

    As for preserving the battery, don't charge it to 100%, and don't discharge it to 0%. Those are what degrades battery capacity over time. (So does heat, but you can't really control that.)

    The Thinkpads have a utility in the Lenovo Toolbox which lets you set the max charge % and when it begins recharging after hitting that max. For example, I have my Thinkpad X1 Extreme set to stop charging at 80%. It will charge up to 80%, then no further battery charging. I set the lower...

    Only the Thinkpads with touchscreens are glossy. The non-touchscreens are matte (and get better battery life anyway).

    As for preserving the battery, don't charge it to 100%, and don't discharge it to 0%. Those are what degrades battery capacity over time. (So does heat, but you can't really control that.)

    The Thinkpads have a utility in the Lenovo Toolbox which lets you set the max charge % and when it begins recharging after hitting that max. For example, I have my Thinkpad X1 Extreme set to stop charging at 80%. It will charge up to 80%, then no further battery charging. I set the lower recharge limit at 70%, so it won't charge again until the battery drops below 70%.

    I know some other companies offer similar software, but I haven't bought a non-Thinkpad in a while so can't say who has what. (I stick with the Thinkpads because they have the best keyboards in the business, bar none.)
 
Solution

ultra_male

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    All laptops now offer this feature now by default either through the BIOS or through a utility so over charging is not really a concern nowadays like it was in the past. In fact, I keep my laptop plugged in all the time and the battery health never deteriorated as I check with a program called BatteryInfoView


    This is how this feature works on my MSI laptop:
    ghTlHap.jpg


    I did nothing in the BIOS it's activated by default