[UK][£650]Ultra-portable machine for remoting back home
Hey guys, hope you can help me out. Need a portable machine for web browsing, light programming and remoting onto my main rig when I'm out and about. Also for use with Steam in-home streaming as a portable gaming machine around the house.
Thanks in advance!
LAPTOP QUESTIONNAIRE
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Country of purchase: UK - England
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Budget range: £650 max
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Main Purpose: Ultra portable machine to remote onto main rig
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Other Purposes: Light coding and web browsing. NOT for gaming. A webcam and mic would be nice, but not necessary.
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Screen size preference: 11.1" - 13.3"
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OS preference: Windows 7 Pro
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Gaming requirements: Just needs to be able to handle Steam's in-home streaming.
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Brand preferences and reasons: None
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Any particular style that you like: Not most important, but I'm a fan of clean simple looks, which most ultrabooks seem to achieve. Brushed alumin(i)um is awesome.
Which of the following qualities would you prefer? (Choose one, two, or balanced)
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Long battery life -vs- Low weight -vs- High performance: Long battery life + low weight
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Build quality -vs- Low price -vs- High performance: Build quality + low price
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Low noise/heat -vs- High performance: Low noise/heat
Which features would you pay a premium for?
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High resolution screen: No
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A great keyboard: Yes
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A great touchpad/mouse buttons: Yes
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Great audio: Not needed
Posted Jul 5, 2015, 6:13 PM UTC
Personally I would recommend the Dell Latitude E5450:
It's a little bit bigger than wished, but it comes with all the perks you want. Win 7 Pro, decent battery life and a keyboard which is better compared to more consumer oriented laptops.
But if you want to save some quids and don't mind Windows 8, then take a look these:
Hi - thanks for replying. I did a bit of looking around myself (would have been rude just to expect everything to be served on a silver platter for me), and was wondering how the Asus ZenBook UX305 performs - I'm not very up to date on laptop CPU performance benchmarks and the like.
Cheers.
Was just gonna comment on here recommending that. Its a great laptop with good speeds, and you can take a look at the UX301 if you need more power (might be over budget though)
Comes with an Intel Core M. As long as it's just web browsing, you will be okay (though it also depends on how many tabs you have open). The UX305 doesn't have any fans (an Core M has a TDP of around 4.5 W). So if you do something more CPU intensive, it will get throttled.