Looking to replace my current laptop, US under $1000

* **Total budget (in local currency) and country of purchase. Please do not use USD unless purchasing in the US:**

Max USD 1000, United States. But the less I pay, the better. Just from what I can tell, I can't really get what I'm looking for if I'm not in that price range.

* **Are you open to refurbs/used?**

I'm more open to refurbished than used, but it honestly worries me that it won't last as long as buying something new. So, if you can avoid it, that'd be great, but am also open to you convincing me that refurbished is fine, especially if there's a significant price difference.

* **How would you prioritize form factor (ultrabook, 2-in-1, etc.), build quality, performance, and battery life?**

I want to strike a balance between best value for my money and ***not*** maxing out my budget. Ranked in order if importance: build quality, performance, battery life, form factor. But I want a 'standard' laptop form.

* **How important is weight and thinness to you?**

Needs to fit easily in a backpack with lots of other stuff in it. Otherwise, don't care too much.

* **Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A.**

14 inch.

* **Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run.**

Maybe a little video editing, but not much. If so, I'd want to find a Windows or Linux replacement for Mac iMovie.

* **If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want?**

Not a gamer. Might want to try a game at some point, but doubt it'd be something so intense.

* **Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)?**

I would like touchscreen.

Good build quality and a nice keyboard would be great (though I have been watching mechanical keyboard videos, so might get one for home, but would want to have something comfortable/tactile-feeling, despite being membrane, when I'm out). But the keyboard isn't a dealbreaker.

I can see the value in a fingerprint reader, but not the end of the world if I don't have it.

At least 1 USB type A and 1 USB type C (2 type C if one of them would be used for charging), and a headphone jack. A native HDMI would be nice, but I know those are less common, so not necessary.

I keep a lot of things open at once (usually 25+ text-file windows, 30 Chrome tabs, at least 2 LibreOffice spreadsheets and 3 LibreOffice documents, WhatsApp Web, Facebook Messenger, and 5 or so PDF documents), so based on my primitive understanding, I'd like the insurance of having 16 GB RAM. And I'd like to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows (my ideal would be to mainly use Ubuntu and have Windows as an "if I can't figure out Linux" but am a Linux noob so that's a bit intimidating), I'd like to have 770 GB storage, unless I can access all of my files from both OSs, in which case 512 should suffice (but obviously, more is better).

* **Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion.**

This is basically a repeat of [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/SuggestALaptop/comments/my0pj2/looking_to_replace_my_mac_us_under_1000/), but I didn't actually buy it a year ago, and feel like my computer is still fine, but is just a matter of time before it's irrevocably damaged, so am asking again with very minor edits to my needs, since there may be innovations from last time. However, last time, people recommended:

Lenovo Yoga 7i 2-in-1 Touchscreen, Intel Evo Core i5, 12 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD

Lenovo Flex, AMD Ryzen 5 4500U, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD

Lenovo ThinkPad E15, Intel i5-10210U, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD