Are Ideapads a good fast working work laptop?

Just like any other laptop, it depends on how much you spend..

id take a low end Lenovo over most everything else in a work environment

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Their Chinese crap these past few years is bottom of the barrel.

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you're right, they're pretty much the same now

It's not the brand. It's the RAM, SSD, whether it has discrete graphics or not, etc. I've used Lenovo ultrabooks for over a decade and am perfectly happy with them.

How big of a screen, and how portable (ie, how heavy can you stand) does it need to be.

This is close, in a 13." Here is one in a 14" that is not quite as slim.

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I travel 150 plus days a year so nothing too heavy.

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I too was issued a nearly 6 pound Lenovo T430P to schlep around the world. I bought my first Ultrabook that was 1/3 the weight, after my first trip with that beast.

Every one of the major manufacturers has Ultrabooks for sale, here is a description of what that means.

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Our system is cloud based so no worries there as long as the wifi hardware is good.

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having dealt with these issues and your type (nothing negative), you could buy a 5k box and still be needing more..

odds are its your environment, not the hardware accessing it

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Buy the thinnest, lightest device with the longest battery life that your budget allows.

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Agreed. The reason I directed him towards 16GB systems is because of browser tabs, and how much RAM can be eaten by Teams and "Windows Audio Device Graph." With no open conversations, and no meeting running, the two combined are using 680MB of RAM.

When you're below the target price, MOAR RAM!

OP, one of the key things when you buy your PC is to start uninstalling stuff you don't need. Trial versions of anti-virus, etc.

eBay link, but it's brand new from a very reputable seller

Brand doesn't matter. The size of the battery and the size of the screen are two overall big factors, and how you configure the power profile is likely the biggest controllable factor. Any Windows 11 PC can be set to power saving (it will slow down the processor, which you won't notice given your use case, and dim the screen a bit.)

Ultrabooks are designed to be actively used at least 5-6 hours a day without being plugged in (closing the laptop when you're going from one meeting to another, opening it back up, etc.) Another option would be the Microsoft Surface line. The Surface Laptop 5 claims *18 hours* of battery life, which is probably optimistic.

With my Lenovo Ideapad (from 2017), I would only plug it in when I got back to my hotel, unless I got stuck at work for 11-12 hours.