Hmmm.
There is something like it in new zealand.
Not the same model, sounds exactly what I'd like.
I don't think I can get it here though, shame.
WHere do you get it and how much is it.
Hmmm so you have to install your stuff I assume you have to get drivers and the like for it from asus.
That in itself is fine, non bloated units rock.

Hi flackers.
Well, looked at the dell units on offer here, didn't like any of the specs.
I have been advised though that while their support is good including after hours support it costs a lot of cash if I ever planned to use it.

Hi.
This laptop is something about 1000 dolars or 4500 rons in Romania but I can not find it in the UK.
I will buy from Romania but I wanted from the uk because here laptops are kiap.
I can give you a website but it is not in english.
Look on amazon.com for asus rog l553 with intelcore i7 and cabilake, I do not know what ever is this cabilake but well.
I saw it, you will have a lovely keyboard and battery is about 5 hours.
Enough for this kind of laptop.

What is the price of that laptop?

Good, but to big for my pocket.

Toshiba has big problems with battery.
Because you get a laptop without windows you do not get blatware.
And on an asus with windows I did not see more, but one or two apps accesible.
I can not remember the apps.
These 1 or 2 apps are the single in the laptop, not others inaccesible.

Good.
I controled an asus not for gaming.
And I am curious, are these apps accesible on your laptop?
Because I saw on a notebook onli a sharing aplication and something I can not remember.
And like crash master, my famili has chash but they do not want to pay for games or for a laptop to expensive.

Thanks.
For me it is enough because I want to disable ilumination and many things to keep the battery long.

According to PCMag's extensively researched roundup, the top three brands for customer service in 2017 are in order; Lenovo, HP, and Acer, mostly for phone support.
Asus placed quite low on that, even though they do make some quite good laptops; they also don't let you replace RAM or storage without voiding the warranty, and it's hard to get an extended one.
Where as with HP and Lenovo, replacement of both RAM and storage is okay, and you can easily get extended warranties, while Acer only lets you replace RAM and warranties are mostly basic.
That said how ever, I have no idea how different it could be in New Zealand on the customer service front.

So I want to know, you said that a 1or 2gb GPU would be fine, I'm assuming then that you want a dedicated one? I'm guessing for playing some of the more accessible video games on steam and such? If so, you probably want something with at least 4GB these days.
Otherwise there wouldn't really be a need as a blind person, and since dedicated GPUs are often found in gaming laptops, which usually have crappy batteries and extra bloatware, you could probably get a better laptop for your needs by going for something more business oriented.

As it stands I would suggest the HP Oman 15 or the ASUS ROG STRIX GL502VM both of which can be configured as needed, but they are both compromises, mainly the Oman.
Lenovo doesn't seem to have any offerings in your price range with the specs that you want, but Acer probably will, if you decide that you are alright with buying from them.
I used the NZ versions of the manufacturer sites to find the models, in order to insure that they were available their.

I would also say that a quad core would be a must, preferably dual threaded, and that you should have at the bare minimum 8GB, preferably 12GB or higher of RAM if you are planning on virtualizing.
Dropping the dedicated GPU requirement would help allow for that extra cost, as the integrated GPU wouldn't be a problem for virtualization under normal circumstances.

Hmmm.
Gives me some food for thought then.
I have some control on asus, but its heavy, warenties suck and support is low.
Not a good idea.
While hp is full of bloat I have used their printer and am still using an old 1212.
Their website has a few things to be desired but their support is good.
Its possible I may just drop back to toshiba.

Hi.
Lol, it|s interesting to see that one product counts for a whole company, you can't say that all toshiba models have bad batteries just because you hhad one which had this unfortunate thing happen.
If you don't like the predator due to it's sice, well, the ROG will be just about the same. You could get gaming laptops from racer, the stealth laptops are quite good, but you have to deal with higher emissions and increased fan activity.
You could also get a Asus laptop with a max q 1070 which is a model of GPU especially designed for thin gaming devices, but they lack power and are not as good as their bigger versions.
When you want to play mainstream games and don't need the graphics, I would maybe look for a machine with a GTX 970 or 980, with 3 or 4 gigs of vram respectively because those are getting cheaper and there are also configurations available with skylake models of Intel CPU's
Greetings Moritz.