1. What is your budget? $1000
2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 13-14
3. What screen resolution do you want? Any is ok. Obviously, higher is preferable but not a deal breaker to have 1378 x 768
4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? Portable with some moderate gaming.
5. How much battery life do you need? The longer the better. 4-5 (when running simple applications like word, internet browsing, etc.).
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)? Yes, generally not graphic intensive games, and I don't mind playing on low settings. Some games I play: Black Ops 2, Skyrim, Team Fortress 2, etc.
7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? Typical school stuff. Word, email, web browsing. Watching videos and streaming videos.
8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need? If HDD 500 GB. If SSD 128 GB.
9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links. No specific sites. But I've been looking at the Lenovo Y410P (not a huge fan of poor battery life and red keyboard), Lenovo U410 Touch.
10. How long do you want to keep your laptop? 3-4 years.
11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? Don't need an optical drive.
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.
Like: Lenovo (only because my current laptop is from them and it's worked well). No preferance about the others as I have not dealt with them much.
Dislike: Apple
13. What country do you live in? USA
14. Please tell us any additional information if needed: Haswell laptop would be ideal, although there aren't many out there. Need to order my laptop soon as I will be leaving home in 3 weeks.
2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 13-14
3. What screen resolution do you want? Any is ok. Obviously, higher is preferable but not a deal breaker to have 1378 x 768
4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? Portable with some moderate gaming.
5. How much battery life do you need? The longer the better. 4-5 (when running simple applications like word, internet browsing, etc.).
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)? Yes, generally not graphic intensive games, and I don't mind playing on low settings. Some games I play: Black Ops 2, Skyrim, Team Fortress 2, etc.
7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? Typical school stuff. Word, email, web browsing. Watching videos and streaming videos.
8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need? If HDD 500 GB. If SSD 128 GB.
9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links. No specific sites. But I've been looking at the Lenovo Y410P (not a huge fan of poor battery life and red keyboard), Lenovo U410 Touch.
10. How long do you want to keep your laptop? 3-4 years.
11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? Don't need an optical drive.
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.
Like: Lenovo (only because my current laptop is from them and it's worked well). No preferance about the others as I have not dealt with them much.
Dislike: Apple
13. What country do you live in? USA
14. Please tell us any additional information if needed: Haswell laptop would be ideal, although there aren't many out there. Need to order my laptop soon as I will be leaving home in 3 weeks.