{"id":2139,"date":"2017-11-13T11:53:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T11:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2017-11-13T11:53:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T11:53:46","slug":"laptop-im-picky-700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/laptop-im-picky-700.htm","title":{"rendered":"Laptop: I&#8217;m Picky and Have Only $700!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you really have everything? Forum reader JobsforFun must try. They allow us to recommend a laptop computer, allowing them to browse the web, print documents, as the dungeons and Dragons dungeon master group. But our readers have very clear requirements. They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Price between $600 and $700<\/li>\n<li>A 1080p display<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Decent&#8221;\u00a0battery life<\/li>\n<li>Ability to do light gaming (but they have a desktop for the heavy stuff)<\/li>\n<li>1TB of storage<\/li>\n<li>Aluminum chassis<\/li>\n<li>Thin bezels<\/li>\n<li>For sale on Amazon or Newegg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/asus\/a32-m50-battery.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Asus-a32-m50-laptop-battery-battaussie-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Asus-a32-m50-laptop-battery-battaussie-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Asus-a32-m50-laptop-battery-battaussie-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Asus-a32-m50-laptop-battery-battaussie-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re willing to budge in just one area:\u00a0screen size. It doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s 13, 15 or17 inches. Additionally, they&#8217;re not loyal to any brands, which gives us more to choose from.<\/p>\n<p>But with all of my research, I was hard-pressed to find an exact match. Here are some suggestions that hopefully help our reader, even if they&#8217;ll have to compromise.<\/p>\n<div class=\"laptop-slideshow\">\n<div class=\"item\">\n<div class=\"lpt_gallery_tbar\">\n<div class=\"lpt_tbar_heading\">\n<div class=\"lpt_tbar_title\">\n<h2 class=\"laptop_article_par\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/acer\/\">Acer<\/a> Swift 3<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"laptop-slideshow-text\">\n<p>Right now, this 15.6-inch laptop is available only on Amazon, for $699, and has an Intel Core i5-8250U CPU (the only laptop with an\u00a08th Gen CPU\u00a0on this list) and 8GB of\u00a0RAM. Its\u00a0256GB SSD\u00a0offers less storage than JobsforFun wants; but the laptop is made of aluminum, and the bezels aren&#8217;t obnoxious. The 1080p display isn&#8217;t very bright, but with the latest-gen CPU and its\u00a0integrated graphics, the Acer Swift 3 should handle some Minecraft. Just know that you&#8217;re only getting a bit over 7 hours of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/acer\/as07b31-battery.htm\">Acer as07b31 laptop battery<\/a><\/strong> life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"item\">\n<div class=\"lpt_gallery_tbar\">\n<div class=\"lpt_tbar_heading\">\n<div class=\"lpt_tbar_title\">\n<h2 class=\"laptop_article_par\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/lenovo\/\">Lenovo<\/a> Flex 5<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"laptop-slideshow-text\">\n<p>You can&#8217;t get this one on Amazon or Newegg, but hear me out. The $699.99 Lenovo Flex 5 is a 15.6-inch laptop with a\u00a0Core i3-7100U CPU, an aluminum build and a 1080p display. The CPU is beginner grade but should work for web browsing. (If you can go to $750, you&#8217;ll get a Core i7-7500U, which is a significant jump.) You get a full\u00a01TB, 5,400-rpm HDD. You won&#8217;t get a 1TB SSD at this price, so you&#8217;ll have to be willing to opt for slower storage. You&#8217;ll also be sacrificing some battery life, as this laptop lasts just 5 hours and 50 minutes on a charge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"item\">\n<div class=\"lpt_gallery_tbar\">\n<div class=\"lpt_tbar_heading\">\n<div class=\"lpt_tbar_title\">\n<h2 class=\"laptop_article_par\">Acer Aspire E 15<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"laptop-slideshow-text\">\n<p>At just $580, this is even cheaper than our reader&#8217;s first budget. It&#8217;s not entirely metal (the lid is plastic), but you get a 15.6-inch 1080p display, a 7th-Gen Core i5 CPU and a 256GB SSD (less than the 1TB JobsforFun asked for). For $669, you can bump it up to a Core i7. It has a DVD drive, which JobsforFun was nonplussed about, but it also boasts an Nvidia GeForce 940MX\u00a0GPU. That won&#8217;t handle\u00a0Destiny 2, but it will work for Stardew Valley. Oh, and the Aspire lasts almost 11 hours on a charge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"item\">\n<div class=\"lpt_gallery_tbar\">\n<div class=\"lpt_tbar_heading\">\n<div class=\"lpt_tbar_title\">\n<h2 class=\"laptop_article_par\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/asus\/\">Asus <\/a>ZenBook UX330UA<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"laptop-slideshow-text\">\n<p>Get last year&#8217;s model while you can, because Asus isf in the process of replacing it. This 13-inch\u00a0Core i5\u00a0laptop has a 1080p display and a 256GB SSD, and it also runs for over 10 hours on a charge. We&#8217;re currently testing the newer model, so we can&#8217;t judge that one just yet. The 7th-Gen Intel Core i5 model is still available on Amazon for $699, while the 8th-Gen model exceeds our reader&#8217;s budget, at $749.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you really have everything? Forum reader JobsforFun must try. They allow us to recommend a laptop computer, allowing them to browse the web, print documents, as the dungeons and Dragons dungeon master group. But our readers have very clear requirements. They include: Price between $600 and $700 A 1080p display &#8220;Decent&#8221;\u00a0battery life Ability to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,6],"tags":[776,660],"class_list":["post-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battery-knowledge-base","category-laptop-batteries-tips","category-tech-info","tag-acer-as07b31-laptop-battery","tag-asus-a32-m50-laptop-battery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions\/2141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}