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Asus....are they reliable?

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  • #2
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Asus are a good make alright.

    That laptop however would be quite poor, processor is crappy.

    You should be aiming for an intel i3 of some variety.


  • #3
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    OK, thanks, bar an i3 processor what's the next decent chip?


  • #4
    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    Doom wrote: »
    OK, thanks, bar an i3 processor what's the next decent chip?

    A Sandy Bridge Pentium B9xx, they're pretty close to the 1st gen Core i3 processors

    370M Passmark score: 1963

    B960 Passmark score: 1980


  • #5
    freestyla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭freestyla


    Doom wrote: »
    Was thinking of getting this for my daughter for Christmas, her 1st laptop.
    http://www.pcworld.ie/Product/ASUS-X501UXX049V-156andquot-Laptop-White/311418/301

    I had X401A (the same series as that one) for awhile. Good looking and well performing for things like watching photos and videos, surfing web, listening to music.

    Overall performance was crappy for my multitasking productive taste (X401A comes with Pentium B970 with HD2000 graphics) but I'm sure that would be good enough for your daughter. Check Argos they got them in in 2 or 3 different colors and it's 14 inch screen weight under 2Kg and 6 hours battery life with WLAN web surfing.
    Looks really stylish, colored plastic with some tiny texture, no fingerprints

    Remember to uninstall some 10-15 different Asus bloatware programs that come pre-installed, improves performance a bit ;)

    Also, touchpad is multi-touch type so it's worth look at those settings and tick off functionalities you don't need. Then it does less surprising things "on it's own" :D


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