Fine with Intel iGPU? Any preferences on weight and battery life?
With MX230 / MX150 25w:
Lenovo Ideapad S340-14IWL 81N7003MMJ / NMJ / LMJ +RAM
Acer Swift 3 SF314-54G-52L8 / 59WJ +RAM

1. Budget: 3.5k and below
2. Usage: light Gaming (dota 2), microsoft office, google chrome, watch movies, youtube.
3. Requirements (display size, battery life, weight etc) : 15 inch
i5 and abv
8gb ram and abv
Ssd
average battery life

Min how many hours? Also, no preference on weight?

Battery life at least 3-4 hours. Will have plug around me.
Weight around 3kg or less

Prefer gaming laptop or regular laptop?

Gaming bro.

With 1650 GPU:
Lenovo Legion Y540 15 81SY00AJMJ / Y7000 SE 81T0001HMJ
Illegear Raven SE / Raven

This post has been edited by ZM Fong: Sep 20 2019, 12:37 PM

Hi sifu,

please recommend me a laptop

Budget: less than RM 3500
Ram: at least 8GB, prefer 16GB
atleast a SSD for software installation
If HDD prefre 7200 rpm
Display at least 15 inch
Plan to use this laptop for at least 6 years (durability and a bit of future proof).

battery (doesn't matter, mostly is with power plug)
weight (doesn't matter)

Usage: mostly office work, with many background programs, large office files, multiple browser tab.
Occasionally playing AAA games at lowest minimum setting (as long as can run enough).

Thanks!!

In terms of reliability or performance?

Fine with lower end GPU like MX250?

Hi guess0410, i recently just purchased a ILLEGEAR Raven SE and they are offering a free upgrade to 16GB RAM and other promotional stuff. And by default, it comes with 512GB SSD also. Perhaps you can check them out at their website. So far this laptop is working fine for me. Bought the i7 9th gen and GTX1050 variant since i would be doing mostly work purposes and multitask a lot.

Hi everyone.
I'm looking laptop for my father.


Budget :
Rm1000-2000

Usage :
- Mostly for Microsoft Word
- watching movies
- basic web browsing


Requirements :
- removable battery would be a plus
- reliable build
- will mostly use it as a desktop (e.g. plug into monitor, keyboard, mouse & speakers)
- occasionally will use as a laptop when going outstation/overseas

Thank you very much

removable battery is rare in laptops nowadays

if you want best reliability you might want to consider business grade laptops, unfortunately they aren't cheap

don't need business grade. something simple is fine. if can last 5 years then will be happy

currently using a old ass pc that is probably nearly 10 years old and takes literally 5 minutes to start up and opening new tabs on chrome feels like it takes a minute

This post has been edited by UsernameCopied: Sep 21 2019, 01:09 PM

the problem is there's less guarantee on lasting 5 years if you go for consumer grade

Performance 1st.

Yup fine with lower gpu

Fine with low quality screen display.

Not into photo or graphic editing

Lenovo Legion Y540 15 81SY00AJMJ / Y7000 SE 81T0001HMJ
Illegear Raven SE / Raven

how long can i expect it to last if its consumer grade?

no one can tell tbh, that's why business grade is a safer buy

Looking for a laptop to do creative work.

Budget around MYR8k

Spec:
Below 2kg
32GB RAM
512GB SSD
Thunderbolt 3 with 4 PCI Lanes
A respectable GPU

Wanted to ask, is the new AMD mobile cpu are good enough as Programming laptop ?

The reason i asking is laptop with ryzen cpu more likely are reasonable cheap than intel i7 6 core cpu.
*and can't find any good review/debate about it on any forum rathen then their's desktop cpu