Need a Laptop Recommendation

5-6 hours on an i7 and 15.6" will be very challenging.

To be honest I'd recommend a Macbook Pro 13' with retina (picked one of the mid-2014 models) through the Apple education scheme for £847 and is perfect. Light, fast, looks beautiful and does everything a university student needs to do. Alternatively I would recommend a Macbook Air, they're purely portable. Have you looked at Ultrabooks? if you need windows of course

Also, I'd like to know if anyone has tried to use a laptop that they carried around often that was over 2.5kg before and whether they thought it was too heavy or if the coped.

I have a 13" mac pro at the moment and have done for the past like 10 years, but I wan't to move to Windows due to the system being able to run the games I want to play. I haven't had much of a look at ultra books, but the problem is I want something that is fairly high spec. I kind of realise now that there isn't really anything that can do everything I want and still be portable, but anything that's close to what I want would be useful.

You will be looking closer to 3-4 hours for most i7 laptops.

I had laptops that were as heavy as 3kg prior. If you carry it make sure you carry it in a backpack across both shoulders otherwise you will get a frozen shoulder which can be painful. It is doable but eventually it becomes a pain that you rather not do.

Why do you need it to be i7??

Hey all, I hope you can help. So, I need a new laptop for School and home, so it needs to be fairly light and max 15.6" as that's as big as my bag can hold. I currently use a macbook pro which is 2kg, so for weight wise I don't want to stay below 2.5kg if possible. Battery life needs to last throughout the school day so 5-6 hours minimum. And it obviously needs to work the internet browser and Microsoft office fairly well.
But, I also do a lot of gaming so it needs to be able to handle both sides. In terms of processor and graphics I'm looking for an i7 processor and Nvida Graphics GTX 750 minimum. The problem is that I'm capped at £1000 (preferably closer to 800 than 1k), so I'm wondering if any of you have any good suggestions. I'm currently looking at the Lenovo Y510p, but it's a bit on the bulky side. Is this the best I'm gonna find, or is there something better?