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PeteC2
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Re: Buying a new ASUS notebook
It is...but, may I ask a question?
You had just mentioned that you are not into gaming...then why would you even bother buying a notebook that has a good portion of it's value in a gamer's GPU?  If you are not a gamer, the Nvidia 8800M will gain you nothing, run hotter and take more of a toll on battery run-time.
Also, this is a 17" screen, versus the 15.4" models you were previously looking at.
Psicop, I don't mean to sound "preachy", but the point is, what are you buying this notebook for...what kind of usage? Is it going to be a desktop replacement/gaming laptop, is it going to be a "general purpose" machine, will it be a "road warrior" that you carry/travel with? This Gateway is a completely different purpose laptop than those you previously mentioned.
There are a lot of nice laptops out there in many different configurations...even before considering price, the first thing to making a happy purchase, is determining exactly what form-factor (screen size, weight, durability etc.) suits your needs, and then which features are important to you.
For example, I am not a huge movie buff, and a blu-ray drive is just a yawn to me...but I have friends who are movie buffs, and wouldn't buy a lappy without one! I am also not into gaming, and anything beyond integrated graphics for me, is just a waste...but my nephew who is a gamer, wouldn't get caught dead with integrated graphics...and I don't blame him!
What I would not do, is spend money on features that did not fill a purpose for my computing needs...
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Psicop
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| Hi Pete,
Thanks a lot for caring 
OK, I need a notebook for mainly running Photoshop and keeping all my image files which grow really fast.
I watch the occasional movies in my laptop when I download P2P for movies never released in Australia and impossible to find here.
What do you think about these two?
»www.lmc.com.au/products/Notebook···Ultimate
»1toppc.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv···ode=AS17 | |
PeteC2
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| IThe G1S would to me, appear to be a lesser choice due to the slowish (4200rpm) hard drive...at the cost of that system, that drive is slow...and not that spacious. For downloading movies and working with video images/photos, I would want a larger and faster hard drive. If it came with another choice in hard drives, that might be different.
The M70SA-C1, albeit pricey, has a very nice configuration, dual hard drives, and since you are into movies/photos etc., the 17" screen may be to your liking...as long as you don't schlepp this all over the place...a 17" screen model tends not to be a convenient "travel-companion", although for it's size, the weight isn't that bad...
Again though, ask yourself if you will really use blue-tooth, Blu-Ray, etc., after all, you are paying for these features! If you do plan to use them, then it appears to be a very nice system.
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