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What I look for:

1. Unfortunately due to eye strain, my bare minimum requirement these days is high DPI displays (around or better than 200 pixels per inch) combined with pixel-perfect integer (2.0x) scaling with no blurring at the OS level.

That means if I want a 13" laptop with a working resolution of 1440x900, the native display resolution needs to be 2880x1800.

2. Good build quality - excellent trackpad, decent keyboard.

3. Battery life - more than 12 hours would be swell!

4. Weight - a light laptop makes life so much better.

5. Performance



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