Dell vs. ASUS

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My brother is planning to buy a laptop and he is indecisive whether to go to the Asus K52JR-SX098V with a Core-i5-540M 2.53GHz, ddr3-4GB, 320Gb and an HD5470/1GB/1792M*

or

to the Dell Inspiron 15R, with a Core i7-740QM 1.73 GHz, 4GB ddr3, an HD 5650 and a 750GB HDD.

I know that the Dell has much better specs and has a student offer on it so they go for the same price.

the problem is that after me and my bro went to see them at the store the dell laptop seemed to be of inferior quality than what felt a much more solid Asus laptop. He also found some bad reviews on the Dell!

So what do you ppl think he should opt for? the higher speced but inferior quality Dell of the sturdy and lower speced Asus? the laptop is for every day use and use of CAD and some engineering software like matlab.
 
I have the Dell Inspiron 1564 with the i5 430, been repaired 3 times since June.

New Hard drive, had a high pitch noise.
New Fan and hetsink, still driving me mad constant running at fairly high speed, even though temps look ok.
The on Tuesday a new Motherboard as the integrated GPU failed. Blue Screen.

All in all a great laptop when you switch it off!! :eek:
 
RJC said:
I have the Dell Inspiron 1564 with the i5 430, been repaired 3 times since June.

New Hard drive, had a high pitch noise.
New Fan and hetsink, still driving me mad constant running at fairly high speed, even though temps look ok.
The on Tuesday a new Motherboard as the integrated GPU failed. Blue Screen.

All in all a great laptop when you switch it off!! :eek:
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heh sorry for your experience mate!! that should conclude the decision I assume, also considering that somewhere I read that asus are the laptops that needed the least repairs on a 3 year span
 
Don't buy Dell unless it's a specific business machine, which the Inspiron certainly is not. In fact, the Inspiron is one of the cheapest model laptops they produce, and inherently the poorest quality. From experience, I can say I don't rate them one bit.

Asus tend to be much better quality overall, as for after sales service, not sure. Remember with laptops that as well as the posted specs you've also got the quality of the motherboard, build, RAM, PSU to consider. Not to mention the screens, which can vary a lot from one brand to another, though not so much with the cheapest.

In short, I'd go for the ASUS.
 
Mayfair said:
^Classic :D
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:D

euroDub said:
heh sorry for your experience mate!! that should conclude the decision I assume, also considering that somewhere I read that asus are the laptops that needed the least repairs on a 3 year span
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I have not used the Asus, but was tempted with one of there low voltage models which Carphonewarehouse selling early summer but ended up getting this laptop instead.

Weather I am just unlucky with this one I'm not sure. I know there have been a few reports on there forums regards the fan issue.

Hopefully the Asus will be a good laptop, report back here and update if you do go with Asus :)
 
dell iirc use asus as an oem for the majority of there products however in my work only go dell if your getting business line laptops in my fanboy mode


(brewed from the majority of reviews and they've always worked for me in the past but thats not to say the same will be for you)


ASUS easily
 
Before I switched to Apple, all I ever bought was Asus gear. Their laptops are fantastic. I had several. No faults and no complaints. I only recommend Asus laptops to family who're looking for new ones. I've had Sony Vaios, Dells and Toshibas and the Asus laptops I've had have all been better quality than those.

As for Dell using Asus for manufacturing, I can't remember the last time that Asus won a contract for a batch production. The majority of Dells contracts go to Foxconn and Quanta now.
 
Just to add. I had a 1525 laptop from Dell about 2 years ago and it's literary dropping to peace's. It's had

New hinges, New lid, New screen, 4 new charger and one new battery and all the silver has worn away oh and the keyboard has been replaced.
 
My girl freind uses an Asus UL30A, great laptop for the money. Has amazing battery life and looks quite smart with the brushed metal lid. It only cost me £330, thinking of getting one for myself. I would definitely go for the Asus over dell.
 
Dell Latitdudes are great. Decent specs and built really well. The amount of abuse consultants give them and then keep on running really is amazing.

Dell's consumer range however is not great. The build quality on the Inspirons is ****.


I'm a fully fledged tree hugging hippy these days, but if I didn't have a MacBook Pro I'd have got a Dell Latitude or a Thinkpad.
 
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