Dell vs. ASUS

[euroDub]

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.

 

[euroDub]

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!!

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

 

[euroDub]

thanks loads people this thread will definitely make up my brother's mind...he'll be off to buy the asus in no time hopefully

 

[euroDub]

I'd vote for asus

See here too

http://lifehacker.com/5524704/laptop+reliability-study-highlights-the-most-sturdy-laptop-makers

hehe I actually saw that link, that's what really raised suspicion about dell. and I thought lenovo were good laptops! Ohh look at HP, that explains why my and my friend's pavilion vga went just after under 2 years :/ !!!

Anyway today he bought the Asus. seems to be of good quality but only time will tell. he upgraded to 2 years parts warranty so he should be quite safe hehe.

thanks all for the feedback ppl