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The state of laptops, as on July 2013
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| Macbook Air Mid-2012, Chromebook Pixel, and Lenovo X1 Carbon use the | |
| tried-and-tested i5-3427U low-power dual-core Ivybridge. | |
| Some notable exceptions: | |
| - Macbook Air Mid-2013 jumped to a low-power Haswell i5-4250U. | |
| Optionally, you can get it with i7-4650U. | |
| - Some ultrabooks are experimenting with i7 dual-cores: notably, the | |
| ASUS Zenbook Prime UX21A uses the 3517U Ivybridge. | |
| - Some laptops like the Lenovo Y410p are running a quad-core i7 | |
| Haswell. Unfortunately, this means that you can expect absolutely | |
| terrible battery life and portability. | |
| The future is quite clear: Ultrabooks using a Haswell-ULT i7 (one of | |
| the low-power models: 4500U, 4550U, and 4650U). I'm especially | |
| excited about the ASUS Zenbook Infinity, which promises to come with | |
| the significantly more powerful 28W i7-4558U [unfortunately, it also | |
| has a touchscreen]. |
That is a good idea, but how to solve power issues in our country is a question. Why do you hate touchscreen by the way? I thought of getting x230t since I might be able to draw also.
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Buy a desktop. Nobody has figured out how to put quad-cores on laptops without compromising battery life or portability (see: "gaming laptops" like Alienware).
This isn't 1995: nothing is going is going to last you five years; hardware and software are moving much faster.