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need a laptop for college (coding, light gaming) decent battery life, lightweight, bright panel.
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<blockquote data-quote="KAKAN" data-source="post: 2522349" data-attributes="member: 103321"><p>I don't really have multiple suggestions, so I'll just share my experience with my laptop. </p><p></p><p>I've been happily using my Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5 for college and normal day to day purposes. It lasts me 6+ hours on a normal day, but if I'm debugging and building a lot while coding, the battery life is down to 4hrs at max brightness. It cost 65K for me back in 2021-ish. </p><p></p><p>However, reviews of the recent versions make it seem like it has gotten worse over the years since I bought it. Mushy keyboard, worse display etc</p><p></p><p>My main problem with it is that RAM is not upgradeable, so I'm stuck with 16GB+swap. Though both the WiFi chipset and the NVMe drive can be replaced iirc. I bought it during Covid, so mine came with a Mediatek chipset. The WiFi+BT MTK card gave a lot of issues under Windows, but has been working fine under Linux OOTB, which was a nice surprise! </p><p></p><p>No dGPU, but I don't mind that since</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Battery lasts longer</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">No worries with Linux compat</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Mostly works fanless</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The iGPU of AMD is good enough for most indie games, and ETS2. Modern games don't work too well though, but that's a non issue for me since I can't play them anyway.</li> </ol><p>Ofc, the display is not very bright, not enough to be perfectly readable under sunlight but passable otherwise, and speakers are okay. But I'm spoiled since I'm comparing it with a M1 MBP. It's not that they sound bad, it's just that there's not much low freq and the sound levels are quite low. Good enough if you need them, but I'd use earphones. </p><p></p><p>If I wanted to buy one today, I'd probably look for AMD APUs, since the iGPU are really good and they don't use all that much power either. Something like the Steam Deck but in a laptop form factor, basically.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KAKAN, post: 2522349, member: 103321"] I don't really have multiple suggestions, so I'll just share my experience with my laptop. I've been happily using my Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5 for college and normal day to day purposes. It lasts me 6+ hours on a normal day, but if I'm debugging and building a lot while coding, the battery life is down to 4hrs at max brightness. It cost 65K for me back in 2021-ish. However, reviews of the recent versions make it seem like it has gotten worse over the years since I bought it. Mushy keyboard, worse display etc My main problem with it is that RAM is not upgradeable, so I'm stuck with 16GB+swap. Though both the WiFi chipset and the NVMe drive can be replaced iirc. I bought it during Covid, so mine came with a Mediatek chipset. The WiFi+BT MTK card gave a lot of issues under Windows, but has been working fine under Linux OOTB, which was a nice surprise! No dGPU, but I don't mind that since [LIST=1] [*]Battery lasts longer [*]No worries with Linux compat [*]Mostly works fanless [*]The iGPU of AMD is good enough for most indie games, and ETS2. Modern games don't work too well though, but that's a non issue for me since I can't play them anyway. [/LIST] Ofc, the display is not very bright, not enough to be perfectly readable under sunlight but passable otherwise, and speakers are okay. But I'm spoiled since I'm comparing it with a M1 MBP. It's not that they sound bad, it's just that there's not much low freq and the sound levels are quite low. Good enough if you need them, but I'd use earphones. If I wanted to buy one today, I'd probably look for AMD APUs, since the iGPU are really good and they don't use all that much power either. Something like the Steam Deck but in a laptop form factor, basically. [/QUOTE]
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