Need a new laptop, from Amazon only

[AngelGrinder]

Ok guys, I had a work laptop last year, high spec to run autoCAD (and games when I'm at home) but it recently packed up, and isn't repairable under warranty, so it is going back to Amazon.

This was my old laptop

Lenovo IdeaPad Y500 15.6-inch Laptop (Dusk Black) - (Intel Core i7 3630QM 2.4GHz Processor, 16GB RAM, 1TB HDD, 16GB SSD, Blu-ray, LAN, WLAN, BT, Webcam, Nvidia Graphics, Windows 8)

So, once that goes back I will have £970 in amazon vouchers.

Can anyone recommend anything really good on Amazon for about this sort of price? Don't want anything huge as it needs to fit in my backpack.

All recommendations are welcome!
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[daemonoid]

<edit> ignore it, lenovo suck

I got a lenovo yoga 2 pro from work. $1100 in a best buy, I'm sure you can find it on amazon.

Excellent 4k screen. 256gb SSD, light as a feather and the foldey-over-screen-tablet is a bonus that has been good for small presentations.

Not tried games on it, but it should be immensely capable.
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[AngelGrinder]

It does look nice, and the battery life is very handy for travelling, unfortunately a 13in screen isn't really big enough for CAD drawings.

I've been looking at this one

https://www.amazon.co.uk/MSI-GX60-3CC-296UK-A10-5750M-Bluetooth/dp/B00IYEUDCY/ref=sr_1_3?m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1404918321&sr=1-3

and the next level up

https://www.amazon.co.uk/MSI-GX60-3CC-295UK-A10-5750M-Bluetooth/dp/B00IYETZSM/ref=sr_1_9?m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1404919206&sr=1-9

But the next level up doesn't seem worth the cost. Like I said, I'm not hugely knowledgeable on computer specs though. Amazon doesn't have a particularly great selection of laptops in that price range at the moment.
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[Seb]

Pixel count is almost everything! Compare a MacBook Air to the 13 Retina Mac.
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[daemonoid]

So, after a couple of months of service the wifi just decided to die on me.

After having a good look around it appears the wireless adaptors are constant source of concern. So I had a look at their warrant page and there's all kinds of options - turn up at an approved service centre sounds the best for me!

I call tech support to see if they can suggest anything else, but really expecting to make an appointment. Nope! Hand over the laptop to DPD who will arrive in a few days and probably get it back to you in a week or two. Two weeks without my primary tool for business? Lenovo, you suck...

I'm off to buy an external adaptor that I'll have to carry around and waste one of the 2 precious USB ports. It'll be a good reminder to never buy another lenovo though...
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[daemonoid]

[sickpup]

I wasn't putting the blame on you Mr Paranoid, I was making the point that anything mission critical should have a contingency plan.

Now stop being paranoid.

[daemonoid]

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[Jayy]

No fucking way I would work professionally on a laptop because of shit like this. Far easier to whip the side of the case off and replace the faulty component in a PC than doing it on a laptop.

That IS your contingency plan on a PC, you just replace part pretty easily/quickly.

I also couldn't handle the size of the screen on a laptop and having just one of them. Once you go big on multi monitors, you can't work on a small single one

Black screen / locked up? Wipe the C: because you have multiple drives / backups running, and be back up and running within an hour.

[daemonoid]

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[Islander]

If you don't have a decent business continuity plan then you've nobody to blame but yourself. Technology will fail from time to time and you should be adequately prepared for that event.

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[sickpup]

So thats Apple who charge considerably more than Lenovo, in fact you could get the business warranty and still save money. Didn't they also try and rip of the Italians over extended warranties and get smacked down?
Acer have had a bigger consumer presence within Europe for years so hardly unexpected. In fact PC world are service agents for them iirc but thats hardly a positive to my mind.

Lenovo have only moved over to consumer products in the last few years, they are still gearing up.

For all of the above why did you not check before buying what the warranty situation is?

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