Asus Laptops, Any one own or had dealings with them?

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Me and the other half are wanting to buy a laptop for her dad, We only have a budget of £350.

The purple shirts place has an

ASUS A54C-SX146S 15.6" Laptop

Which is bang on budget and you seem to get decent bang for buck with it.

Intel Pentium B960 processor (2.2GHz, 1333Mhz, 2MB cache memory)

6GB DDR3

320gb hdd (big enough for him or he could upgrade it)

Now I've had Asus mobo's and they have been fine etc, But I've never used one of their laptops.

I'm likely to be having to fix future problems, so was just wondering what people think of them?
 
I own an Asus G60Jx, it has had hard drive issues as well as over heating issues, I sent it back to Asus on the warranty and it came back all fixed within a week. Their customer support is pretty good too!
 
Ive owned an Asus N55 for 2 months, its been good.

My only complaint is I dont like the keyboard style, but that was really my fault for knowing about it and still purchasing it.
 
ZG002 said:
Me and the other half are wanting to buy a laptop for her dad, We only have a budget of £350.

The purple shirts place has an

ASUS A54C-SX146S 15.6" Laptop

Which is bang on budget and you seem to get decent bang for buck with it.

Intel Pentium B960 processor (2.2GHz, 1333Mhz, 2MB cache memory)

6GB DDR3

320gb hdd (big enough for him or he could upgrade it)

Now I've had Asus mobo's and they have been fine etc, But I've never used one of their laptops.

I'm likely to be having to fix future problems, so was just wondering what people think of them?
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Er,

Buy what I recommended here as will be 20-30% quicker and a better overall laptop http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18369264

Toshiba Satellite Pro C660-21C @ £349

Part Number: PSC0RE-01K01MEN

Stock Code: W178879

Intel® Core™ i3-370M Dual Core Processor, 15.6" HD Screen, Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64-bit, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 320GB HDD, DVD Rewriter, Integrated Graphics.
 
The purple place had a:

i5 mobile processor
6GB RAM
TB hd

For exactly your budget price. Unsure if it was just a christmas special thing but it was HP branded I believe.
 
sehcure said:
The purple place had a:

i5 mobile processor
6GB RAM
TB hd

For exactly your budget price. Unsure if it was just a christmas special thing but it was HP branded I believe.
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Avoid HP Home laptops if you can. Least reliable laptop out of all of the brands with a close to 30% failure rate by year 3 based on various performance figures about. This has been discussed in great detail in many topics before. High spec, poor cooling, cheap, something has to give.

HP Business = one of the best, HP home = one of the worst until you spend £1000+ in which case they are very poor vfm.

Reliable computing = Business Laptops which means Toshiba Satellite Pro (pro bit designates the business series), HP Probook or Elitebook or Lenovo Thinkpad. These laptops either come with 3 year warranties or you can buy them from £15-£50. Dell Vostro are also good as offer 3 year next day on site warranty for £30-£50. They are over priced at the moment

Best home laptop is the Lenovo Ideapad, pretty much a thinkpad in less robotic sytling.

Want a gaming machine then Dell XPS or Alienware and take the 3 year warranty. The UK Clevo reseller is ok too, just watch their warranty terms. Samsung also do some nice gaming laptops as do MSI.

Avoid Acer, HP Home, Medion, E-Systems, Advent. Sony are overpriced, Asus are reliable but you can get better value for money. Regular Toshibas (non pro) are ok too but either tend to be pricey or under specced, although their home system warranties are cheap if you buy the warranty direct from Toshiba UK.
 
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Scrutinize said:
Avoid HP Home laptops if you can. Least reliable laptop out of all of the brands with a close to 30% failure rate by year 3 based on various performance figures about. This has been discussed in great detail in many topics before. High spec, poor cooling, cheap, something has to give.

HP Business = one of the best, HP home = one of the worst.
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The Envy series is pretty nice. Gets a bit loud and hot like you say though. Build quality is good though.

Personally, I'm looking at the 14" Samsung 7-series (NP700Z3A).
 
SeeKified said:
The Envy series is pretty nice. Gets a bit loud and hot like you say though. Build quality is good though.

Personally, I'm looking at the 14" Samsung 7-series (NP700Z3A).
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I like the 7 series.

From the copious amounts of posts and advice I have given on here this is a summary of my cireteria.

£300-£600 - Non Gaming laptop pick a business laptop as these will survive a nuke so this means a Toshiba Satellite Pro, HP Probook, Lenovo Thinkpad/Ideapad. They also come in cheaper and better specced than a lot of the home laptops and some offer ati 6630/50 graphics which will game nicely at medium/high detail and res.

£600-£900 - Non Gaming Laptop, spend less and see the pick above due to diminishing returns here.

£600-£900 - Gaming Laptop buy a Dell XPS L702 or something off the Dell Outlet. Possibly Clevo as well.

£900-£1200 – Non Gaming Laptop then buy a Lenovo Thinkpad X1

£900+ - Gaming Laptop opens up a whole world of choice from Samsung, MSI and Alienware. Pick whatever gives you the best spec for your money. Just watch the warranty terms. You can argue sale of goods act until you are blue in the face and you will probably win but that won’t get round the 6-8 weeks + of downtime you may face. If you can get 3 years next day onsite it is well worth it. 3 years C&R is better than nothing.

Get to go to work in a Hawaiian shirt and shorts, work in graphics and design.......then there is only Apple (mbp or mba) and budget is irrelevent
 
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Any high street stores sell that tos pro? Just a yes or no will do as we need it by friday morning (yep last min, but thats women for you!) cheers
 
Just ordered me an Asus N73SV.

Intel® Core™ i5-2430M 2.4 GHz
17.3"FHD TFT (1920x1080, Colour Shine)
8 GB DDRIII 1066
NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 540M 2GB
640 GB (5400rpm)
Blue Ray Combo

£590 'cause I don't pay VAT. :)
 
I think my parents got the same Laptop that you are looking at. It works fine for general tasks, web browsing and word-processing ect, but it is a little sluggish. Also it is not one single 320gb HDD but 2 smaller ones.
 
Ended up with a series 3 Samsung. i3 processor, 4gb ram and 500gb hdd

I've set it up for him ready for Friday and had a good go of it. Not bad at all, I think he will be well pleased :)
 
I personal have an ASUS x53e, which seems solid ( please note that this is only for work)

Intel i5 2410m @2.30 Ghz
4Gb (2X2Gb) DDR3 RAM at 1300 MHz
320 Gb HDD

and it not bad to be honest I got it from the orange place (I'm sure your figure this out)

fast, stable and CHEAP !! mine only cost £350 on the nose
 
I've got an X52F Core i3 Asus laptop, 4 Gig of ram, 500 gig HDD (replaced with 128 gig SSD) and I'm very pleased with it. Just watch the bloat ware, Asus seem to love it !

My Dad has bought a Core i5 X53 one I think and thats pretty quick aswell, he's very happy with it, the USB3.0 port on it makes it worth the extra.
 
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