cross-posted from: https://lemmy.asudox.dev/post/2687124
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.asudox.dev/post/2687123
I am looking for a new laptop for my sister. Her budget is 650€. What laptop is the best overall? Macbooks are excluded, as she doesn’t like them. The OS is not important, I can install the OS myself. It shouldn’t be a gaming laptop and it also should have a long battery life. No ARM or RISC-V laptops please. Build quality should be decent.
Thanks in advance.
edit: specific requirements
- Display size: 13 to 15 inches
- Display resolution: +1920x1080px
- Aspect ratio: 16:9
- Thickness: Slim
- Screen color accuracy is not important
- Screen should be anti glare
- RAM: +8GB SODIMM DDR5
- Storage: +512GB SSD
- Touchscreen: preferred
- Foldable screen: preferred
- Upgradeability: RAM and the SSD should be upgradeable
- Keyboard: QWERTZ, DE-AT
- GPU performance does not matter, would be only useful for video hardware acceleration
- CPU performance does matter
https://www.cyberport.de/notebook-und-tablet/notebooks/hp/pdp/1ca2-0aa/hp-probook-4-g1a-14-wuxga-ryzen-5-230-16gb-512gb-ssd-dos-cw6r1es-bto.html
You can probably find them at this price (650-700 EUR) across most major retailers in DE/AT.
We have deployed a bunch of these Probook 4-series G1 units, both Intel and AMD, they really punch above their weight class in build quality.
So much so that several of our business clients who historically always bought Elitebook 800-series and ThinkPad T-series for their fleets this generation decided to “downgrade” to Probook 4 and save a lot of money without noticeable loss in quality.
To quote our distributor: “HP really took their higher laptop classes behind a shed and shot them by upgrading the entry-level business class like this.”