So my friend asked me if I could do some research on which laptop he could get for about $ 1000-1200 (converted from DKK to USD). he is mainly going to use his laptop for office work, some video watching and also it has to be able to connect a microphone so he's to record music through it.

His main prorities are that the laptop has to be relatively efficient on battery-time, that it is not noisy (very important), enough RAM to be responsive in basic applications and has plenty of harddrive space.

The way I see it is that he doesn't need a powerful graphics card to cope with new games.. so here it should be possible to save some money and battery-power. Also, he doesn't need an extremely powerful CPU that runs the latest games but I still think it's important to have a good CPU for snappy multi-tasking. In this connection I think he needs 1 GB RAM. For the screen, I was thinking of a 15,1 " or 15,4 " (depends on his wide-screen needs).

What do you say?