Need help finding a laptop (€1,000), similar to the Asus N56VZ

pjjk90

Hi all,

I'm looking for a laptop in and around €1,000 with similar specs to my old Asus N56VZ which unfortunately stopped working (too expensive to repair plus I don't want to take the gamble).

I have been looking online and I can't seem to find one with similar specs anywhere near the price I paid for the Asus (around 1,000 two years ago, which had a Full HD screen, i7 3610QM (I've been reviewing them based on the results from cpubenchmark.net), 2GB graphics card, 8GB ram). SSD isn't an issue as I have the one I bought for the N56VZ.

Would anybody be able to suggest a similar spec laptop around €1,000 as I can't seem to find anything <€1,200! I thought by now I should be able to get one similarly spec'd for less but apparently not!

Thanks in advance!

Curb Your Enthusiasm

pjjk90 wrote: »

Hi all,

Well that was brief.

pjjk90

Techmaster wrote: »

Well that was brief.

Whoops, on mobile and accidentally hit post!

scamalert

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/156-gigabyte-p15f-v3-cf1-full-hd-25ghz-core-i7-4710mq-8gb-ram-1tb-hdd-2gb-nvidia-gtx-950m-dvdrw-wifi looks like almost same spec as you described-works out just over 1100e.newer cpu and gpu on it,even thou backlit keyboard would bee nice addition.

heres one from pcworld-http://www.pcworld.ie/Product/msi-apache-ge60-2pl-1003uk-156-gaming-laptop-black/327189/396.0.0 999e but i5 instead of 7 if you want locally.

Funny thing about acer laptops that they basically were bargain couple years back,since prices now for simillar or same spec are still on par,owning one acer myself would be hard to buy anything better spec paid 600e for i5 few years back and prices arent even changed,maybe more gigs of ram,or some 1tb hdd puts higher price,but in general they seem to keep price.

MSI one seems nice,decent quality and service on them as well, as in gaming laptop,but dual core i5 would be bottleneck if your into new games.

pjjk90

scamalert wrote: »

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/156-gigabyte-p15f-v3-cf1-full-hd-25ghz-core-i7-4710mq-8gb-ram-1tb-hdd-2gb-nvidia-gtx-950m-dvdrw-wifi looks like almost same spec as you described-works out just over 1100e.newer cpu and gpu on it,even thou backlit keyboard would bee nice addition.

heres one from pcworld-http://www.pcworld.ie/Product/msi-apache-ge60-2pl-1003uk-156-gaming-laptop-black/327189/396.0.0 999e but i5 instead of 7 if you want locally.

Funny thing about acer laptops that they basically were bargain couple years back,since prices now for simillar or same spec are still on par,owning one acer myself would be hard to buy anything better spec paid 600e for i5 few years back and prices arent even changed,maybe more gigs of ram,or some 1tb hdd puts higher price,but in general they seem to keep price.

MSI one seems nice,decent quality and service on them as well, as in gaming laptop,but dual core i5 would be bottleneck if your into new games.

Thanks Scamalert, both them look great! Regarding Gigabyte, I've never heard of them, do you know what they're like? Also for MSi, I did see that laptop but it appears to be out of stock... I'm mainly using it for the Adobe suite, I have the lend of another newish laptop around the €600 mark (Clean install, SSD and the specs seemed decent) but the performance was brutal, really really slow and kept getting error messages about the graphics with the active window going really buggy.

TerrorFirmer

That MSI is good value from PC World for a walk-in store.

The i5-4210H is not going to be a bottleneck in games with that card and it will perform much better in games than your old laptop.

For things like editing or rendering - if you're doing stuff like that - your old laptop will be somewhat faster due to the extra two cores.

Do you actually play games? Because having a dedicated performance card adds a lot to the cost of any laptop.

Looking at PC Specialist I can get a Cosmos III with Full HD 15.6" screen, i7-4710QM, 8GB ram, 500GB hard drive + 120GB SSD, GTX950M, for €941 delivered.

Way faster than your old laptop and within budget.

scamalert

gigabyte is on par with msi and other manufacturers,good reviews on MB and other stuff,but not sure about laptops really.As you see in your range there are decent and a bit better laptops then you had or if graphics isnt an issue go with above users advise,not loosing much if not gaming.