Work Notebook recommendations

[SpeedWeed]

Hi I am looking for a light weight windows work laptop

Need to do basic word, excel, adobe photoshop and video editing

My understanding is light weight decent battery life usually means pricey laptop.

The videos won’t be huge or very Long.

Photoshop will be just cleaning up photos and doing some basic art work.

Trying to keep it below 1.5k preferably

I suppose second hand is possible.

If u can point me to a decent buy online or on Carousell or here. I would be very grateful

Any advice on what to look out for will be greatly appreciated as I am a noob

Thank you

 

[Ark Law]

I believe a generic spec (i.e. U-class CPU and onboard graphics) should suffice given your light workload.

https://sg.carousell.com/p/t470s-lenovo-thinkpad-14-lady-user-168683184/

 

[obichacha]

ThinkPad T460s still in the best laptop.

Lenovo ThinkPad T460s - 14" - Core i7 6600U - 8 GB RAM - 512 GB SSD
https://sg.carousell.com/p/171429661

 

[Ark Law]

Aye, both our suggestions from the same carouhell user lol. So difference between the two is $400 for 1 gen difference, 4GB extra RAM, and 1 year longer warranty

 

[SpeedWeed]

Are both a good buy?

Will the graphics card be sufficient?

Aye, both our suggestions from the same carouhell user lol. So difference between the two is $400 for 1 gen difference, 4GB extra RAM, and 1 year longer warranty

 

[obichacha]

Do you planing for gaming?
Of course no good, for normal work with any photo editing it's work well.

Are both a good buy?

Will the graphics card be sufficient?

 

[lewissac]

For work and light photo editing (not batch processing). It should be sufficient.

 

[SpeedWeed]

No gaming purely for work

Do you planing for gaming?
Of course no good, for normal work with any photo editing it's work well.

 

[SpeedWeed]

My understanding is it will just take longer to render if it’s integrated graphics card

Cos I need to make my own marketing video maybe 2-3 minutes.

 

[SpeedWeed]

The seller says it was a bulk purchase

So I can go online to check the warranty on Lenovo website.

Is that legit!?

I believe a generic spec (i.e. U-class CPU and onboard graphics) should suffice given your light workload.

https://sg.carousell.com/p/t470s-lenovo-thinkpad-14-lady-user-168683184/

 

[jacobbooks]

That laptop looks a bit pricey given that it does not have a good graphics card.

You would like to have a good Graphic card if you're doing some heavy Photoshop and artwork like using Autocad.

A GTX 1050 and above should be sufficient.

I came across this post and maybe you might be interested. It also has a quad-core chip HQ (and not U processor) that could be used to run multiple processes at the same time.

https://carousell.com/p/lenovo-yoga...ofile&ref_referrer=/kyleseow/&ref_sId=2401545

 

[Ark Law]

The seller says it was a bulk purchase

So I can go online to check the warranty on Lenovo website.

Is that legit!?

It probably is. Businesses buy these type of laptops in the hundreds to thousands. Which is why you always see a sea of Thinkpads/Latitudes/Probooks/Elitebooks in the used market. The high end enterprise laptops (Thinkpad T/P/X series, Dell Latitude 7000 series) come with 3 year warranty as standard, and their list price regularly start around the $2k mark.

For 2nd hand, always ensure that the seller provides the original receipt or proof of purchase for said laptop if it is still within the warranty period.

That laptop looks a bit pricey given that it does not have a good graphics card.

You would like to have a good Graphic card if you're doing some heavy Photoshop and artwork like using Autocad.

A GTX 1050 and above should be sufficient.

I came across this post and maybe you might be interested. It also has a quad-core chip HQ (and not U processor) that could be used to run multiple processes at the same time.

It's a nicely speced laptop for it's specs bar a few caveats. It is heavier at 2kg (which also means heavier power brick), it will thermal throttle under load, lesser build quality and battery life won't be as long. Given TS's use case and preference for portability, the T470S/T460S is probably a better choice.

 

[jacobbooks]

It probably is. Businesses buy these type of laptops in the hundreds to thousands. Which is why you always see a sea of Thinkpads/Latitudes/Probooks/Elitebooks in the used market. The high end enterprise laptops (Thinkpad T/P/X series, Dell Latitude 7000 series) come with 3 year warranty as standard, and their list price regularly start around the $2k mark.

For 2nd hand, always ensure that the seller provides the original receipt or proof of purchase for said laptop if it is still within the warranty period.



It's a nicely speced laptop for it's specs bar a few caveats. It is heavier at 2kg (which also means heavier power brick), it will thermal throttle under load, lesser build quality and battery life won't be as long. Given TS's use case and preference for portability, the T470S/T460S is probably a better choice.

The TWO Ps. It's difficult for a laptop to be light and yet have good performance. Hence, the reason why gaming laptops are always heavier than Ultrabooks.

T470/T460S - for portability
Yoga 720 - for performance

 

[Rock-kun]

I came across this post and maybe you might be interested. It also has a quad-core chip HQ (and not U processor) that could be used to run multiple processes at the same time.

Unless your thinking is still stuck in the 60s, every single processor since the 8086 had the ability to launch, run AND manage multiple processes simultaneously.

Windows has close to 100 processes running simultaneously at all times. Unix and Unix-based systems have even more, numbering in the hundreds to near thousand. And their ability to 'run multiple processes at the same time' sure as heck are not limited by U-grade or HQ-grade processors.

 

[SpeedWeed]

It probably is. Businesses buy these type of laptops in the hundreds to thousands. Which is why you always see a sea of Thinkpads/Latitudes/Probooks/Elitebooks in the used market. The high end enterprise laptops (Thinkpad T/P/X series, Dell Latitude 7000 series) come with 3 year warranty as standard, and their list price regularly start around the $2k mark.

For 2nd hand, always ensure that the seller provides the original receipt or proof of purchase for said laptop if it is still within the warranty period.

It's a nicely speced laptop for it's specs bar a few caveats. It is heavier at 2kg (which also means heavier power brick), it will thermal throttle under load, lesser build quality and battery life won't be as long. Given TS's use case and preference for portability, the T470S/T460S is probably a better choice.

Slower rendering is fine for me.

I am a Property Agent so I am just editing and making small videos for my listings.

I don’t drive so portability and battery life is good for me.

He bought for his business. No longer operating. So the original receipt will be to his company for Bulk purchase?

On site warranty means they will come down my place once I provide them my serial number?

6 months old laptop with 2 1/2 year warranty. I assume it’s a good price?

$1399 is a reasonable price?

I don’t need for gaming.

 

[Darkshadows]

Dell Vostro 5471. Business laptop that I'm looking to buy so maybe this suits you too.

If you go for Windows 10 Home, there will be a reduction of $64 which the price of the higher prices model will drop to below 1.5k.

 

[Rock-kun]

Dell Vostro 5471. Business laptop that I'm looking to buy so maybe this suits you too.

Back in 2015, I was helping a friend upgrade a Vostro notebook with a 802.11ac card and the thing was notoriously hard to crack open. Has the designed changed over the years since then?

I don't really have much love for notebooks that only have easy access doors for the RAM and HDD (and lock everything else behind a super hard-to-open chassis) because I often muck around with other things such as the M.2 slots.

 

[Darkshadows]

Back in 2015, I was helping a friend upgrade a Vostro notebook with a 802.11ac card and the thing was notoriously hard to crack open. Has the designed changed over the years since then?

I don't really have much love for notebooks that only have easy access doors for the RAM and HDD (and lock everything else behind a super hard-to-open chassis) because I often muck around with other things such as the M.2 slots.

Here's a video on the teardown which I believe can explain better.

 

[Ark Law]

Slower rendering is fine for me.

I am a Property Agent so I am just editing and making small videos for my listings.

I don’t drive so portability and battery life is good for me.

He bought for his business. No longer operating. So the original receipt will be to his company for Bulk purchase?

On site warranty means they will come down my place once I provide them my serial number?

6 months old laptop with 2 1/2 year warranty. I assume it’s a good price?

$1399 is a reasonable price?

I don’t need for gaming.

I believe as long the the invoice includes your laptop's specific SN/service tag, that should be sufficient. Unless the business ordered a different spec warranty, it will be 3yrs onsite starting from the date on the invoice. $1.4k is fine (if can nego further, $1.3k) given that BNIB would probably be at least $2.1k.

Dell Vostro 5471. Business laptop that I'm looking to buy so maybe this suits you too.

The current Vostro line up is not worth for individual purchase imo. It's more of a boosted Inspiron with only 1yr ProSupport. If you decide to extend the warranty to 3yrs ProSupport, it comes close to or exceeds the Latitude 5490 price point - which in turn has better build quality.

And then when you look at 2nd hand market, you can occasionally find the flagship 74x0 series at lower price with much better build AND longer remaining warranty. Of course you won't find 8th gen, but for work use case, it doesn't matter.

https://sg.carousell.com/p/dell-latitude-e7470-166064765/

 

[jacobbooks]

Unless your thinking is still stuck in the 60s, every single processor since the 8086 had the ability to launch, run AND manage multiple processes simultaneously.

Windows has close to 100 processes running simultaneously at all times. Unix and Unix-based systems have even more, numbering in the hundreds to near thousand. And their ability to 'run multiple processes at the same time' sure as heck are not limited by U-grade or HQ-grade processors.

Bro, when I said multiple processes = heavy processes. Like running multiple projects on Microsoft Visual would be more efficient on a multi-core.