Recommend Me a Laptop for Travelling - Budget $2000

LCrossgates on 26/12/2023 - 13:35
Last edited 26/12/2023 - 15:11 by 1 other user

Hi all, looking at replacing my aging HP ProBook with something new and more suited to taking with me when travelling, so looking at 14" laptops.

Mainly looking for long-battery life and generally good build quality to survive the rigors of travel - aluminium chassis etc. Won't be doing any gaming apart from Football Manager which has pretty low requirements. I would prefer upgradeable RAM and SSD slots but seems like this is less common these days. Budget is around $1500 - $2000.

This seems to tick all the boxes.

Anything I'm missing?

Computing Computer Laptop

Comments

  • freefall101 on 26/12/2023 - 14:50
    +1

    What are you doing when travelling? Hard to beat a macbook, especially considering the battery life, unless you really must go Windows.

    • Namesareapain on 26/12/2023 - 14:59

      PC laptops have great battery life now, for example Meteor Lake based laptops are clocking around 21 hours of web browsing (with 75Wh battery). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obtc24lwbrw

      • Feeblely on 26/12/2023 - 16:51
        +1

        Macs are still more power efficient sadly. If you watch your video, as soon as you put on something like YouTube, it halves the battery down to 10hrs

    • Crossgates on 26/12/2023 - 15:03

      General web browsing, long-haul-flight Football Manager binges, Youtube/streaming and possibly some photo editing and excel-based work. I would prefer Windows, mainly as my desktop is Windows so would be able to have OneDrive for easy file access/sharing.

      • crentist on 27/12/2023 - 04:55
        +1

        onedrive works on macs…

  • roberto7 on 26/12/2023 - 22:10

    would you be happy to consider used Dell Latitudes? ticks all the boxes except new warranty

    • Crossgates on 26/12/2023 - 22:53

      Yup happy to consider used, where would be the best place to find these?

      • roberto7 on 27/12/2023 - 15:26

        Hmmm PM me for this, I could give you more details depending on your preferences. I'm in the market myself for my 4th Latitude but there are other factors at play

  • kerfuffle on 27/12/2023 - 07:13

    Surface Laptop 5? On sale at Microsoft/JB Hi-Fi at the moment.

  • GardenGnome on 27/12/2023 - 12:26
    +1

    MSI Prestige 14 Evo B13M @ $1400 @ CenterCom is a very good choice. I was set on buying it due to specs and price but decided to buy a better laptop while it was on sale. I have a previous version of the MSI Prestige and it's done me well for 5 years.

    If you have the extra $$$ I would buy a Lenovo Carbon X1 Gen 11. They are on sale @ CenterCom right now and its battery will last longer than the MSI due to the CPU being a i7 U version rather than a i7 H version. Yes, new CPU's are coming out but this is a good price for local stock and the new CPU's will clock in @ $3K for Carbon Gen 12 laptops.

    https://www.centrecom.com.au/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-carbon-g11-1…

    Also, the Lenovo is better quality and that matters, and if you ever need to pawn it to stay another season or two you will get more money for it ;)

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