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Greetings guys, my wife needs a new laptop for her studies. Just something basic budget maximum 6.5k. The major requirement is a good battery life. Her research will be mainly done in rural areas whereby she can charge the battery once or twice a day. She will also be doing movies and music once in a while we saw a few shops with a few deals but failed to make a decision. Could the experts here help me, please?
 
Batteries is where budget laptops skimp on so find out the actual battery capacity. Stay away from any laptop with a CPU that start with an " N" prefix
Actually I would recommend you buy a decent , used, demo laptop on Carb. Core i3 or i5 7th gen , 8GB Ram, 240-256GB SSD, with warranty.
 
So I’ve been looking at laptops quite a lot of late.

New Budget laptops = terrible. Really awful.
Dual core, 4 gigs of RAM, slow storage, low resolution screen, shit CPU.

You’d get far better value on the forums.
Quad core, 8gigs of RAM, 128 gig SSD. External HDD for the movies.
 
Batteries is where budget laptops skimp on so find out the actual battery capacity. Stay away from any laptop with a CPU that start with an " N" prefix
Actually I would recommend you buy a decent , used, demo laptop on Carb. Core i3 or i5 7th gen , 8GB Ram, 240-256GB SSD, with warranty.

This...

And so true, ended up getting a beast of a laptop for my needs that will trade blows with an i7-8550U even though I only paid R4500.

For that money (R4500) new I would have ended up with a Sloweron and very frustrating nights.

Loads of resellers to choose from here on Carbonite and hard to beat prices!
 
Budget laptops are trash, a second hand i3 with an SSD would be great, you will have enough of your budget to bump up the RAM.
 

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