Gaming and battery time (life) is in contradiction.
That out of the way, look at the new Asus ROG with the 1050 GPU and SSD. Here that's under 1,500USD and is decent gaming.
Hi, since I've finished my school and looking forward to join a college, I'm looking forward to buy a laptop.
What I'm interested in is Surfacebook with performance base and the new Macbook is out of the question for me because of those thunderbolts and most importantly OS, I want a windows based system and using bootcamp is not a great idea. Carrying dongles around for those thunderbolts would be a bit too expensive and impractical for me in college.
The main issue is that looking at the hardware of Surfacebook, it's outdated and making the laptop a bit overpriced
What I'm looking for -
Battery life
Looks and aesthetics
Thin
Light weight
A decent gaming on the laptop
Using Photoshop
Using Premiere Pro
Using 3ds max and AutoCAD
But that can be used on any laptop, so decent performance for it.
Would appreciate students discount
Priced around $2000 to $2200 (including students discount)
OR better available in INDIA near or under RS.1,50,000
And should I wait for Surfacebook 2 ? Since I heard It'll be out next month.

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