But the most important for me (and me only) it’s the OS, I would format the laptop and put a Linux distro = more time on battery, no lag at all. (you might have a discount if you ask to not have Windows on it)
just my two cents
Eek there’s still so many 1366 x 768 laptops around, didn’t even look at that
That will be tough to work with IMO, the UI will just eat so much of your screen that the CPU/GPU performance wouldn’t be the main concern, definitely go with 1920x1080 (or better, of course…) if you can.
Of those linked so far, the “Ice Lake” one (Dell Inspiron w. Core i5-1035G1) is the most attractive option in my opinion. (At least if Dell didn’t mess up the cooling as badly as some others did…while the CPU doesn’t eat a lot of power, it’s still not really suitable for fanless cooling)
The difference is that this CPU is manufactured with a 10nm process while all the older ones (all the way back to 5th generation!) are on 14nm. That makes it require less power and also allowed integrating a stronger GPU.
Too bad there still seem very few AMD notebooks around, something like a Ryzen 5 4500U or 4600U would be a really well balanced package with 6 cores, good iGPU (compared to all those 14nm intel CPUs in any case) and low power usage. But I only see a few with 8GB RAM…and I’m afraid most don’t have upgradeable RAM, it’s soldered on.
As silly as it sounds, they do that to low-ball the entry price, same as 4gb ram. Especially for the corporate purchases which then get offloaded onto the refurb market.
That is a big if. While dell makes decent laptops, their cooling tends to be some of the worst.
You have to actually check the service manuals to be sure. When I was buying a laptop last year, I know I ran into plenty of cases where a manufacturer and even their support claims the ram is soldered but it isn’t. So only way to know for sure is either if it is LPDDR(100% soldered), or checking the service manuals. Sometimes, only 1 slot is soldered so you can upgrade the other slot as well.
Thank you for the help everyone! I ended up getting a laptop with AMD Ryzen 7 4800H. Since @Lynx3d mentioned H processors require more cooling I have moved my workstation near the air conditioner and good news! The ram is upgradable!
@Grum999 I bought a full HD screen and it’s great!
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and good news! The ram is upgradable!