Last update: 28/8/19

Here are all the good/excellent Ultrabook/regular/business laptops you can buy.

How I rate these laptops:
Build quality first. Battery life second. The rest are display (HD display will be excluded except in low end options), input devices, performance, warranty and portability etc.

A few things before reading:
If you need advice on recommendations, kindly PM me.

BUSINESS LAPTOPS
GOOD PICKS (high sRGB)
GOOD PICKS (low sRGB)

OK PICKS
GOOD, SHORT BATTERY LIFE (<6 hrs)
OK, SHORT BATTERY LIFE (<6 hrs)


GTX GPU
NON-UPGRADABLE 4GB RAM

In consideration:
Awaiting for more info:
Imported Chinese models which are not included: Chuwi, Xiaomi

Additional info:
Usually i5 and i7 ULV don't have much performance difference due to thermal and firmware/power limitations, however CPU performance of R5 and R7 might vary between models due to difference in power limits. Also, there are 3 variants of MX150 GPU: 10W, 10+W and 25W. IMO brands only matter when comes to customer support, choose model not brand.

Thanks for reading! I hope this list helped you to choose the right laptop. Keep in mind that this is my own guide, you might not agree with some of the recommendations and I can understand that.

I stopped reading further about it at 1 RAM slot, LOL...

Why not? You certainly won’t like to utilise your memory >90% when you’re working around with your PC. 8GB is nothing after few programs running in the back or few pages of webs on browser.

Even smartphones are hitting over 10GB RAM in 2019, the requirements will only grow upwards, not stagnant.

Eventhough for the moment Thinkpad isn’t under Citibank CCS 45% offer, I will say no harm waiting for few more days and see if they decide to include them later on. The sales should last till 6th October, don’t need to be too rush, especially on Thinkbook (except may be you interested and value the 10,000 AirAsia big points, then Thinkbook got the edge). The price of Thinkbook had been like that since months ago.

P/S: Thinkbook don’t support USB-C PD charging, which I consider quite a dealbreaker especially for thin ultrabooks.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkB...t.428235.0.html

actually, if if you dont insist on 14inches, you should go for thinkbook 13s, the cheapest model rm25xx, because
if 8gb and 256gb is not enough, you can always upgrade it to 16gb in future.

the 13s is better than 14s because 13s is using a better quality screen.

and frankly, the ability to upgrade to 16gb is more than enough, i dont think anyone need 2 ram slot for this think book.

the rm25xx model for 13s is good because it is using UD620, without GPU so the battery life would be better.

13.3” FHD (1920 x 1080) IPS antiglare with Dolby Vision™ HDR (300 nits, 72% CG)