Laptop for college

[Tmadness]

. I'm starting college a few weeks and wanted to buy a laptop. Initially I had saved up around 2800$ and wanted to go for a premium grade laptop like the Thinkpad W540 or the Dell xps 15. But as Intel is battling the laws of physics and pushing its Broadwell laptops past the early 2015 mark, I have decided to buy a mid-high end ultrabook instead and use with my Sony vaio s15(which has a battery life that looks to be powered by a potato) for all the "heavy lifting".

My budget is around 900$, The laptop should have a good if not great screen running at at least 1080p , a awesome battery life(7.5+ hrs), a good keyboard with nice travel (I have been known to pound my keys) and a I5 with 8 gigs of RAM(I wouldn't worry too much about the storage capacity, 120 gigs should be just fine). The trackpad doesn't matter much but should have decent gesture support.

So far my searches have turned up the Dell xps 13(890$)

http/www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Dell-XPS-13-4289-Touchscreen-Ultrabook---Intel-Core-i5/productID.304981600

and the ASUS Zenbook UX31LA(840$)

http/www.microsoft...uctID.306270800

as my main two choices. I have looked at the XPS 12 but the XPS 13 seems to be better(Battery life, bigger screen etc.)


**ALSO, I HAVE A STRICT POLICY AGAINST MACs.**

 

[iceblitzed]

would go with asus book. fits the bill more with what you want + more reliable than xps