New Laptop Advice

[Eltee ●]

Hey, everyone!

I am planning on getting a new laptop for University, as well as for a bit of gaming.

I am currently looking at the Asus S56CM model. It's specs are:

Intel i7 processor
6GB RAM
1 Terabyte memory
24 GB SSD Card
GeForce 635m Video Card
2 year warranty
$949.99 Canadian (Which is more or less at parity with USD)

Any thoughts or concerns would be appreciated!

[Frost Mage ●]

Looks good. I'm not a huge computer hardware geek, but that video card might be iffy. Other than that, that is a seriously good deal you're getting, especially for a gaming laptop.

[Archea47 ●]

I haven't checked any reviews, but peeped it on the Asus website and it looks like a pretty spectacular laptop

[Andere ●]

I took a look at it, and you'll hardly drop dead with that one.

[Archea47 ●]

Okay ...

I think this might only be available till midnight, but ...

This is *better*, $800 out the door with tax. Significantly better processor, video card and ram

https://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/con ... 3A&redir=y

I think I'm going to buy one

[Eltee ●]

Hmm...! That one's enticing.

One of the reasons I'm looking at Asus is because of their reputation for good reliability. How do Lenovos compare?

[Archea47 ●]

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[Eltee ●]

Ooh... OK! Thanks for the recommendation!

[Archea47 ●]

I've decided to save my money for the time being but a friend of mine ordered and took on another shift at work to afford that laptop

[Eltee ●]

The one thing that's concerning me with the Lenovo is the screen size. Will 14' be sufficient for gaming?

[Archea47 ●]

That's a great question. I had the same concern and was thinking when I was using it at home I would connect it to a monitor and my gaming keyboard and mouse. Right now I use a 15.6" screen at the same resolution (1366x768) and that at least is plenty for gaming IME

Ya might want to run over to bestbuy or some such and try out a 14" screen and how it feels for you. When at home you can of course like I mentioned use a monitor

The hardware at that price is just ... awesome though Vs. the asus ... a 2.4ghz proc vs. the Asus's 1.9ghz (both Intel IvyBridge), a nVidia 650M vs. the Asus's 635M, and to top it off the lenovo also has 2 more GB of RAM

The 635M is based off the old 40nm architecture, the 650M is a 'true' 600 series card using the improved 28nm

650M:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeF ... 887.0.html

635M:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeF ... 964.0.html

[snapple ●]

Does it HAVE to be a laptop?

[Andere ●]

Want a laptop, get a laptop? I don't have one, but I do some of the most necessary things with my mobile phone. Otherwise I'm, actually, rather reluctant with many of "the latest things".