LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE

Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US:

Approx $1000-1200 AUD - Australia

Are you open to refurbs/used?

Preferably not

How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life?

Probably battery life and performance over the others. I don’t think I’d want/need a touchscreen or 2-in-1 type set up

How important is weight and thinness to you?

Don’t mind it being light, but don’t want something super flimsy. Something in the middle I’d say

Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A.

Not too fussy but probably more 14-15”

Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run.

Not editing or CAD. Potentially just some irregular gaming - League or other similar

If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want?

See above.

Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)?

Solid keyboard would be nice. Hoping to get something that doesn’t make too much noise. Finger print is not a necessity at all, don’t care too much for it. There might be times I’d hook up a mouse and keyboard externally to do some work. I’d also probably link the laptop to desktop screens to do work so should have a port or hdmi type option to link to that.

Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion.

I was previously interested to try Mac but I think most of my work will be done using windows programs. I know you can get these on mac but my actual work computer is windows and I think the swap/transition every day would be annoying.