What laptop should I buy with $2500? I know nothing about technology.

[Kevin_81]

My university is giving me $2500 to buy a laptop (not a penny more), so I want to buy something good. What do you recommend? I am not very tech-savy, but this is what I need:
1) It cannot be more than 15.6 inches, because I want it to be able to fit into my handbag.
2) It has to be able to play really intense new games like The Sims 4 and Civilization 5.
3) It has to not get hot, burn up, and explode very quickly.
4) If it is possible to have it come with a quatrilingual keyboard (English, French, Hebrew, and Arabic), that would be great. I currently have trilingual stickers for English, Hebrew, and Arabic.
5) I want this computer to have great stuff like shit tons of room, fabulous graphics, playing games really fast and perfectly.
6) It needs to have a battery life of more than 5 minutes (my current laptop sucks). If it can stay on for a few hours without charging (or longer), that would be great.
7) It would be cool if it comes with stuff pre-installed for free like Microsoft Word, anti-virus, or Rosetta Stone. My university won't buy any of that stuff for me, but if it's included in the $2500 laptop price, then it's cool.
8) How should I go about actually getting the laptop? I'm an American living in Israel. Can I order something and get it shipped here, or will I then need to pay thousands of dollars in import fees? I was thinking of just buying one in the UK in a couple of weeks when I go to visit London... would that get me out of paying any import fees/ taxes to Israel when I bring it back with my luggage?
9) It would be cool if the laptop was not super-duper heavy

 

[ak47jar3d]

Well, most of what you want is pretty easily to accomplish at a $2500 price point. The best laptop at that price point is the razar blade 2015. It's very powerful, 14 inch, runs cool, and is very light. You should be able to buy it in UK and bring in the luggage as have never been charged taxes for doing regardless of where I have gone with my laptops. I would research the matter and see if it would cause you to get taxed. The software won't be hard to get considering you still going to have $400 let to spend.

Razer Blade 14" QHD+ Touchscreen Gaming Laptop 256GB with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M graphics-Windows 10 https/www.amazon.com/dp/B012BSDEVK/ref=cm_sw_r_other_awd_S2YGwbZQE0H9H

 

[Kevin_81]

Thanks for the advice - question - how much better is this:

Razer Blade 14" QHD+ Touchscreen Gaming Laptop 512GB with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M graphics-Windows 10


than the one you recommended? I ask because it is on the link you sent me and still under $2500

 

[ak47jar3d]

Yes, it's the same laptop with a larger ssd.

 

[ayush2]

yes the razer blade 14 is fantastic if you have money to blow. Another option is the aorus x3 plus (it has the same specs). You can get more for the money with the Aorus.