Laptop recommendations under £1000

Carper

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Hi all, I’m after a laptop under £1000 for my everyday needs which are general browsing the web, word, excel, high pixel photo editing etc I’d like good battery and portability with not a big screen I think 14inch would be the sweet spot. I did see the asus zenbook 13 inch i7 on curry’s for £820 what do you guys think of that?
 
I don't have an answer for you - but I'm after something very similar myself.
I'd also be interested in recommendations for 14", non-gaming laptops. In my case as an upgrade from a 2yr old Chromebook that's been my 'living room' computer for the last couple years.
 
Have a walk around a high street shop and tap the thing and see how much the screen wobbles. Most of them are just drunk, so can be easily ruled out with that test.
 
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Yep, that's my concern - most are rubbish. I've mostly used Mac for ~15 years, haven't *ever* bought my own Windows laptop. Is there an ~£800 Windows laptop with great build quality - does such a thing even exist?
 
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There's been some good deals on the Asus Zenbook Pro 14 recently.

Beautiful 2.8K OLED panel, decent battery life.

It's been available for £600 ish if you don't mind not having a dedicated GPU.
 
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I've never had an Asus laptop so can't really comment on quality, but I do have a quite recent Dell Inspiron and it's a nice machine so I'd say this range was worth a look.
 
Except maybe the original Asus Eee I've rarely had good things to say about Asus's build quality - they almost always skimp out or slap something together somewhere creating a weak point in the design even on the premium products. For instance had a couple of routers where despite overall being a decent design they used really cheap and nasty switches which barely lasted more than a dozen actuations before failing.
 
Carper said:
Hi all, I’m after a laptop under £1000 for my everyday needs which are general browsing the web, word, excel, high pixel photo editing etc I’d like good battery and portability with not a big screen I think 14inch would be the sweet spot. I did see the asus zenbook 13 inch i7 on curry’s for £820 what do you guys think of that?
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I would say you to go for MacBook M1
 
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