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<blockquote data-quote="SirVer" data-source="post: 2438753" data-attributes="member: 98538"><p>[USER=38657]@Mr.J[/USER], just a heads up - at least one of the Asus models you posted shows a display gamut coverage of 45% NTSC, which usually corresponds to around 60% sRGB - this can often (but not always) result in the screen looking dull, especially for multimedia. For context, budget phones have had 100% sRGB screens for more than half a decade now. I was personally looking for a laptop almost exactly like what you're looking for a couple of months ago, and came across a lot of the options being discussed in this thread, and finally ended up going with the Honor MagicBook 14 (45k with the 5500U and 16 gigs of RAM) because of the display and full metal build. It's served me pretty well so far, apart from a couple of weird bugs that keep cropping up.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, I don't think I can recommend the Honor right now, because I don't see the 16 gig model in stock, and the 8 gig has gone up in price to match it. Its RAM is soldered, so you can't even get the 8 gig and upgrade it, which I think is kind of a dealbreaker because IMO a coding machine should have 16 gigs of memory, especially if it's your main system. The only other options I was considering were the Xiaomi lineup (which is in the 55-65k range) and the Asus K15 OLED; you've already mentioned you don't want the OLED, and the Xiaomi stuff uses i5 11th gen chips, which seem better for single threaded perf, but have less cores, which IMO is more important for coding workloads (virtualization, compile times, etc).</p><p></p><p>... I'm only now realizing after typing all of this that I have no useful suggestions except an unsolicited warning about display quality. I should probably have thought this through.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SirVer, post: 2438753, member: 98538"] [USER=38657]@Mr.J[/USER], just a heads up - at least one of the Asus models you posted shows a display gamut coverage of 45% NTSC, which usually corresponds to around 60% sRGB - this can often (but not always) result in the screen looking dull, especially for multimedia. For context, budget phones have had 100% sRGB screens for more than half a decade now. I was personally looking for a laptop almost exactly like what you're looking for a couple of months ago, and came across a lot of the options being discussed in this thread, and finally ended up going with the Honor MagicBook 14 (45k with the 5500U and 16 gigs of RAM) because of the display and full metal build. It's served me pretty well so far, apart from a couple of weird bugs that keep cropping up. Unfortunately, I don't think I can recommend the Honor right now, because I don't see the 16 gig model in stock, and the 8 gig has gone up in price to match it. Its RAM is soldered, so you can't even get the 8 gig and upgrade it, which I think is kind of a dealbreaker because IMO a coding machine should have 16 gigs of memory, especially if it's your main system. The only other options I was considering were the Xiaomi lineup (which is in the 55-65k range) and the Asus K15 OLED; you've already mentioned you don't want the OLED, and the Xiaomi stuff uses i5 11th gen chips, which seem better for single threaded perf, but have less cores, which IMO is more important for coding workloads (virtualization, compile times, etc). ... I'm only now realizing after typing all of this that I have no useful suggestions except an unsolicited warning about display quality. I should probably have thought this through. [/QUOTE]
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