Which laptop should I buy? - 2

I need a new laptop for my University, I'm starting Art and Technology which has to do with Broadcasting, Web, Advertising, Entertainment, and Concept Development. Basically, I need a good working laptop.
I didn't want to get a Mac. I know that macs are very popular for media like editing and such, but I simply HATE the OS. I love windows (I'm thinking about simply installing windows on a mac, but it's so much easier to get a cheaper, better working laptop).

Right now I have a Lenovo Z370 ideapad
Intel Core i3 2.20GHz with 4GB of RAM
Intel HD Graphics 3000 and NVIDIA GeForce 410M
This isn't good enough for what I actually need, right?

Any recommendations, that are below the price of a Macbook, but work better or as good as?
Or any specs I should be looking at such as CPU or something?

Guest

It depends upon your budget,

the most powerful laptop around the market I knew are, razor blade pro, Aorus x7 (currently out of stock- company updated the hardware and probably be release on maybe second week of June), MSI stealth pro, asus rog. I'm personally inlove with Aorus X7 and planning to get one after the release of the new X7.

those laptop I mentioned are probably for gaming purposes and also a bit expensive, and the battery life is not that great. But they are more than enough for working purposes only and I'm 1000% sure you'd never complain about the performance (except battery life).

since you needed something more about working purposes and I doubt if you might be able to spend such amount for those laptop I mentioned, you might want a laptop that are design for working purposes and my top choice are Samsung ATIV Book 9 Plus and Asus Zenbook UX301 since their powerful enough to handle heavy applications and I also love the design and battery life is also amazing,

if you still want a cheaper laptop, try checking xoticpc.com.

but I don't recommend laptop below +300, no matter what brand is it, the hardware parts are just piece of sh**t

I would advice you go with either Asus, MSI, Toshiba, Lenovo or Samsung

P.S (Apple are fine but for me its dead expensive, I can get the same Linux/Windows laptop with the same specs and one third of apple product price.)

SilverKenn

I expect that for the short term you will be fine with what you have. I would wait until I actually needed something better and then get what is needed then, which will be more power for less money.

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