How important is the screen and do you need a fingerprint reader? Lots of options for business focus but at this price usually a huge compromise massively on either screen being the 45 NTSC and / or missing the fingerprint reader. Also size? For business I find 14" the perfect size in ultrabook (slim/light) format and only use a 13" if going somewhere needed ultra compact.
£800 is an awkward price, not enough for the good options (ThinkPad/Elitebook) but too much for cheap business focused laptops.
Sometimes price becomes the no brainer like the £599 Asus Zenbook Ultra 7 32gb deal around Christmas time which was so great for the money it rendered other options moot (unless you needed a finger print reader) at that time. equivalent spec ThinkPad or EliteBook were £1300 then.
At the moment, the LENOVO Yoga Slim 7 14" Laptop - Intel® Core™ Ultra 5, 16GB, 512 GB SSD, Grey [83CV00FMUK] is only £599 and bar a fingerprint reader at this price it is a great option. In normal real world productivity use, the Ultra 125 is not noticeably different to an Ultra 7s, even 2nd gen.
As an alternative there is the HP OmniBook 7 AI 14" Laptop - Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 (255u), 1 TB SSD, Silver for £599 with the 2nd gen Ultra 7 or the HP OmniBook 7 Aero 13.3" Laptop - AMD Ryzen AI 7, 1 TB SSD, Silver for £599 with the AI350 processor and 13" form factor.
The Omnibooks are better specced than the Yoga Slim 7 with the more powerful 2nd gen / Ai processors but screen (inc glossyness), overall build quality, battery life and keyboard play a big part in preference. 16GB memory is more than enough for productivity use.
So my pick would be either of the Omnibooks due to processors but I prefer the Yoga screen and keyboard. However as I need a fingerprint reader neither are viable (currently have a ThinkPad x9).
Gaming requirements are irrelevant as you can use cloud gaming now either via game pass or GeForceNOW, both of which give silent, long battery life (same as web browsing) gaming. If you do want to game then screen is most important.
Andrew Marc David's channel is perhaps one of the most helpful in your decision if you are stat crunching.
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Hi guys. Planning a new laptop. It’s mainly for office work/ accounting software and general browsing etc.
Aiming for under 800. Ideally 16gb memory minimum. Really wanting as fast and responsive as possible for the price. Pure bang for buck. It won’t be used for gaming.
I’m a bit out of date on laptops so thought I would ask for suggestions here.
Many thanks chaps.
