Stoney
11-16-2010, 10:01 PM
I will buying my wife a laptop for Christmas. She is a teacher and needs one for desktop replacement; occasionally will take it to work but is not a priority. This will be used for Office 2010, internet research, emails, logging onto the school server, skype, CD/DVD burning, occasional video streaming, but no gaming whatsoever.
I have already decided on 4 gigs of RAM, Windows 7 64, 15.6" screen (for her situation 17" would be ideal but the cost factor prohibits this) and leaning towards the i3 cpu. I would like to have a higher budget but $700.00 will have to do. In my research I came across the Asus laptops and have been impressed with what I have read but it is hard to find a lot of customer reviews. Can anyone tell me the build quality of Asus systems? Any series that I should avoid?
I have looked into HP's dv6t series and I like the way you can configure the build but after having experienced their serious failure rate with their DV600 series I am HP shy. I have also looked into Lenovo's Thinkpad Edge series and like their 15.6" model but both HP and from what I have found with Asus seem to offer a little more bang for the buck for basically the same system. Thoughts?
Also, AMD offerings are a little less expensive and their latest mobile offerings have improved. Looking at what this laptop will be used for is the L3 cache of the i3 necessary or will the L2 cache of an AMD more than suffice considering she will not be doing heavy apps or multitasking?
Lastly, better time to purchase: Black Friday or Cyber Monday?
Thanks.
I have already decided on 4 gigs of RAM, Windows 7 64, 15.6" screen (for her situation 17" would be ideal but the cost factor prohibits this) and leaning towards the i3 cpu. I would like to have a higher budget but $700.00 will have to do. In my research I came across the Asus laptops and have been impressed with what I have read but it is hard to find a lot of customer reviews. Can anyone tell me the build quality of Asus systems? Any series that I should avoid?
I have looked into HP's dv6t series and I like the way you can configure the build but after having experienced their serious failure rate with their DV600 series I am HP shy. I have also looked into Lenovo's Thinkpad Edge series and like their 15.6" model but both HP and from what I have found with Asus seem to offer a little more bang for the buck for basically the same system. Thoughts?
Also, AMD offerings are a little less expensive and their latest mobile offerings have improved. Looking at what this laptop will be used for is the L3 cache of the i3 necessary or will the L2 cache of an AMD more than suffice considering she will not be doing heavy apps or multitasking?
Lastly, better time to purchase: Black Friday or Cyber Monday?
Thanks.