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What is your budget?
approx $500

What country will you be buying this in?
US

What size notebook do you prefer?
Thin and Light (13 - 14-inch screen)

What brands do you like or dislike?
Like: Lenovo, will consider any brands
Would you consider a refurbished laptop?
Yes

What are the primary tasks you need this notebook for?
Web Surfing, Office and Productivity Software, Casual Gaming

A basic portable word processing Laptop for HS student.
He currently has a gaming laptop, this one is for portability reasons.

Where will you be using this laptop?
Will be used different places

How many hours of battery life do you need?
6

Will you be buying online or in store?
online

Which OS do you prefer?
Windows 8 or Windows 7

List the screen resolutions that interest you:
Standard Resolution (1366 x 768)

Do you prefer a glossy or matte screen?
Glossy or Matte is fine

Is the laptops design important to you?
No

Approximately what date will you be buying this laptop?
Around 08/04/2013

How long do you want this laptop to last?
3 years

How much storage capacity do you need?
160 GB

Are you interested in SSD for storage?
Maybe

Do you want a built-in optical drive, what type?
No

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You should be able to find something to your liking in the Dell, Lenovo and HP business outlets.

Refurbished business products
Dell | Dell
Lenovo Outlet | Laptop, Desktop and Tablet PCs | Lenovo | (US)

Try eBay for a deal like this one
HP EliteBook 2570P Notebook B8S45AW Intel i5 4GB 180GB 12 5" HD Windows 7 Pro | eBay

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Thanks
I was just looking through Amazon's selection and ran across this Sony below, which looks intriguing.

I have no experience with Sony, kind of bad experience with Dell and currently have a Lenovo which I like.

I need to check out Lenovo's outlet, I do get employee pricing but not sure what the difference is between employee and outlet.

Sony VAIO E Series SVE1413TCXB 14-Inch Laptop $469.00
Intel Pentium E2220 2.4 GHz
4 GB DDR3 RAM
320 GB 5400 rpm Hard Drive
14.0-Inch Screen, Intel HD Graphics
Windows 8, 6-hour battery life

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You can get something much better than the Sony for the same price. You can easily get an i3 for the same price. The Pentium is a hobbled processor. And the battery life is no where near 6 hours. You would be lucky if you get about 4 hours with normal use.

You could try for a ThinkPad E431 with the i3 processor. I don't know if you would get the discount in the outlet.

Last edited by idiot101; Today at 11:17 AM.

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FRYS.com|Lenovo

FRYS.com|Sony

Please look for reviews. I would still recommend a business laptop.

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Thanks

Looking at Lenovo outlet now.

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You can also take a look at Dell's and HP's outlets for their business-class laptops in your price range. Though I'd suggest trying to find something with at least a 1600x900 (or better) if you can find one since that will be the single most important spec on a laptop for a non-gamer since it not only provides more screen real estate (correlated to higher productivity) but also overall better quality as well (better colors, contrast, etc).

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Thanks for all your help.

Went with Lenovo U410 refurb $455.50. Seemed like a great deal so I pulled the trigger.

Processor: Intel? Core™ i5-3317U ULV Processor (1.7GHz, 3MB L3, 1600MHz DDR3)
Operating system: Windows 8 Standard 64 - English
Display: 14.0" WXGA (1366 X 768) TFT color, VibrantView, LED Backlight w/720p HD Camera
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 and NVIDIA GeForce? 610M
Memory: 6GB (2GB & 4GB) PC3-12800 DDR3 1600MHz SDRAM SODIMM Memory
Hard Drive: 774GB (750GB, 5400RPM and 24GB Solid State) Serial ATA Hard Drives

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BTW

I did check the HP site and couldn't find a 14 with that screen resolution and my price point. I have also had good luck with Lenovo, so have no problem going back. Thanks again

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