Buying a new laptop

xdyay

Prominent
Aug 14, 2017
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510
1. What is your budget?
~1000 euros (~1182$)

2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
15,6'' preferably.

3. What screen resolution do you want?
Full HD 1920*1080 IPS (something better would make it really expensive).

4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
Laptop.

5. How much battery life do you need?
Decent battery life.

6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)?
Maybe I'll play some games ocassionally, like The Witcher 3, but i don't need high settings, gaming is not my priority.

7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)
Music production and programming (mostly python). I'll use origin (data analysis and graphing software) but i think it's not really demanding.

8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?
I was thinking about 256GB SDD and 1TB HDD, getting more SDD storage would be pretty expensive.

9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.
N/A

10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
Don't really know, like 5 years.

11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
DVD ROM/Writer (i can buy an external one though)

12. Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons.
N/A

13. What country do you live in?
Spain

14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.
Well as i said i'll mostly use it for music production and programming, so i guess i need a good processor and ram.
I looked some windows laptops and also some mac (would like to use logic, but can use cubase), but i don't know if macs are worth it, is it my lack of knowledge or are they pretty expensive for what they are worth?
 

drajitsh

Commendable
Sep 3, 2016
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A suggestion,
Intel's next gen coffee lake processors are expected to launch on Aug 21, they are reported to have significantly better performance (30% claimed by intel). If you can wait for a month or so you can benefit from the ryzen effect.