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
I bought an HP (I know, I couldnt believe it either) bare bones basic laptop.
On sale for 300 US while I was there.
Removed windows, put of Fedora. Everything works, battery life is good.
Its surprising what you find on the lower end because they use well supported standard stuff to keep costs down.
No issues, been two years.