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Question

Laptop on a budget of £600 ($800)

Hey, looking for a laptop no more than £650.

Found the ASUS ZenBook UX305UA on a US website and I thought it was pretty close to what I wanted, however they don't ship to England so that's off the cards.

https://www.amazon.com/Zenbook-UX305UA-13-3-Inch-Generation-Titanium/dp/B01BMERZJ6

Main factors when purchasing are:
-Portable (see prefered specs below)
-Battery life of 5 or more hours
-Relatively good specs that will allow for some amateurish film editing and gaming
-Display resolution of 1920x1080
-I don't really care for '2 in 1' laptops

Weight: Somewhat important but it's not a dealbreaker, prefably a laptop less than 5lbs and at most 6.5lbs

OS required: Windows

Preferred screen size: Between 13 to 16 inches

Gaming: A wide range of games from the late 90s to the early 10's, settings don't need to be maxed out or anything

Additional Info: A good build, and by that I mean something that looks good but isn't fragile

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Answer
Amazon does ship to England.
Sep 8, 2016 12:25PM PDT
https://www.google.com/search?q=does+amazon+ship+to+England was easy enough to check.

Your budget is light so you'll have to find models that fit that. Gaming is at odds with weight. Gaming is also at odds with battery time. You can see a 10 hour battery fall to 1 hour when gaming.

I don't know of any laptop today that gets more than 2 hours while gaming so you may have, with one spec, told us you have to wait a few more generations of laptops to get what you want.
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Thanks

Thanks for the help man. Gaming isn't too important to me, if it effects weight and battery that much you can forget about it, I'll make that clearer.

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Here's my current laptop.
Sep 8, 2016 1:46PM PDT

Note that I did a DIY SSD upgrade. ASUS ROG GL552VW-DH71 15-Inch Gaming Laptop, Discrete GPU GeForce GTX 960M 2GB VRAM, 16GB DDR4, 1TB (ROG Metallic)

That's currently 1KUSD and very nice. For travel I have a much simpler Asus x202e. Over the next week I'm changing the HDD to SSD. That will change the number of hours it gets and give a boost overall performance wise.