1. What is your budget?
--Generally around $1,000-$1,300 after all costs
2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
--Around 15-16" screen
3. What screen resolution do you want?
--1080p
4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
--Portable. It's for school/work.
5. How much battery life do you need?
--Towards the higher end of the spectrum would be great, anything 7-8 hours would be wonderful, but 4 would be probably the lowest.
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)?
--Nothing that requires a discrete GPU.
7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)
--Internet, E-mail, Office, Music storage/listening
8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?
--Over 750GB would be ideal, 1TB would probably be best.
9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.
--None, but I do have a Microcenter nearby, and generally they are cheaper compared to online.
10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
--Quite a few years.
11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
--CD/DVD.
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.
--Only ever had issues with HP melting laptops, and Dell's motherboards being crappy!
13. What country do you live in?
--NJ, USA
14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.
--This is for a friend of mine who is looking to replace his old laptop. He uses it for school. His current rig is a dual core 1.2GHz with 2GB RAM and 200GB HDD.
He wants to get the extended warranty and all that jazz since he's pretty much hardware illiterate. I know quite a bit about desktop parts, but unless I was customizing a laptop, I'm not sure what brands/models are best at the moment.
He was looking at this: http
/www.staples.com/Toshiba-L55T-A5290-156-Touch-Screen-Laptop/product_49557
but I told him it didn't seem like that great of a deal, since it's an older generation CPU, and the resolution was the same which he wanted to upgrade.
He was also factoring in Office, tax, and whatnot.
I was looking along the lines of this: http/www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Flex-15-Touchscreen-Ultrabook/dp/B00HIY8VMK/ref=pd_sxp_f_pt
Which I'm not sure is the right idea, but I had heard good things about Lenovo.
Anyway, you guys are the laptop experts, any feedback would be appreciated.
Thank you guys very much in advance.
Edit: He also mentioned he would rather spend a little bit more if he has to to be "future-proofed" since his budget won't allow a replacement very quickly. I understand it can never be future proof, but no 1GHz single cores please!
--Generally around $1,000-$1,300 after all costs
2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
--Around 15-16" screen
3. What screen resolution do you want?
--1080p
4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
--Portable. It's for school/work.
5. How much battery life do you need?
--Towards the higher end of the spectrum would be great, anything 7-8 hours would be wonderful, but 4 would be probably the lowest.
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)?
--Nothing that requires a discrete GPU.
7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)
--Internet, E-mail, Office, Music storage/listening
8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?
--Over 750GB would be ideal, 1TB would probably be best.
9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.
--None, but I do have a Microcenter nearby, and generally they are cheaper compared to online.
10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
--Quite a few years.
11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
--CD/DVD.
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.
--Only ever had issues with HP melting laptops, and Dell's motherboards being crappy!
13. What country do you live in?
--NJ, USA
14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.
--This is for a friend of mine who is looking to replace his old laptop. He uses it for school. His current rig is a dual core 1.2GHz with 2GB RAM and 200GB HDD.
He wants to get the extended warranty and all that jazz since he's pretty much hardware illiterate. I know quite a bit about desktop parts, but unless I was customizing a laptop, I'm not sure what brands/models are best at the moment.
He was looking at this: http
/www.staples.com/Toshiba-L55T-A5290-156-Touch-Screen-Laptop/product_49557but I told him it didn't seem like that great of a deal, since it's an older generation CPU, and the resolution was the same which he wanted to upgrade.
He was also factoring in Office, tax, and whatnot.
I was looking along the lines of this: http
/www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Flex-15-Touchscreen-Ultrabook/dp/B00HIY8VMK/ref=pd_sxp_f_ptWhich I'm not sure is the right idea, but I had heard good things about Lenovo.
Anyway, you guys are the laptop experts, any feedback would be appreciated.
Thank you guys very much in advance.
Edit: He also mentioned he would rather spend a little bit more if he has to to be "future-proofed" since his budget won't allow a replacement very quickly. I understand it can never be future proof, but no 1GHz single cores please!
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