Hi!
I’m in the market for a new laptop and I’d like to consult with the community about what’s being recommended on the year 2026.
This is a laptop that I intend to use for both playing games and using as a mobile coding platform so battery and horsepower are the main points that I’d take into consideration, prioritising battery power.
I do not care if it’s otherwise bulky.
I am currently encountering issues with AMD hardware on my main machine so just having a guarantee that the hardware is not gonna flop on me would be a big plus.
All in all! Thanks for giving my post a read and any answer would be appreciated, specially in the 900€ range.
I bought an Asus Zenbook 14 about a year ago, specifically for immediately installing linux on it and doing some light gaming (I also have a linux desktop)
It has been surprisingly good. When the windows setup launched, the fans were spinning up loudly. I wiped the laptop and installed NixOs. Suddenly the fans went quiet, and I got an estimated battery life of around 11 hours with light usage, excellent.
It has an AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS CPU with 780M graphics. I was surprised at what you can run on this. Even Elden Ring was working smoothly on low to medium settings. And the laptop weighs around 1.2kg. I found it even more practical to carry around than my steam deck. (which I’ve sold)
Overall pretty great experience. Planning to build an Egpu to connect to the USB4 ports so I can add a bit of extra horsepower with an external GPU when needed.