Your Opinion On This Laptop?
So I'm laptop shopping and this laptop caught my eye. The specs seem very good and it's a pretty decent price, considering other laptops I've seen with similar specs are $1000+. I'm wondering what your guys thoughts are. [url=http://m.costco.ca/Asus-K550LNV-QB72-CB%2C-Bilingual-15.6-in-Notebook%2C-Intel%C2%AE-Core%E2%84%A2-i7-4510U.product.100126960.html]Here[/url] is the laptop, and if you want more detailed specs (since it doesn't really give that good specs), [url=http://m.staples.ca/touch/product.html#1147593_2-CA_1_20001]here they are.[/url]
The two laptops are only slightly different (Costco one has 1TB hard drive whereas Staples has 750GB, but Staples has 7200RPM while Costco only has 5400RPM. Other than that they are identical except for colour.)
I'm wondering if you guys think this is a good laptop to get and a good price? Or would you recommend another laptop to use? Please keep in mind I only want a black laptop (Staples is silver ew but just showing for specs), and that I would be using it for Sony Vegas, Photoshop, Maple, and having usually 20 tabs of Chrome open. However all of this is not all at once LOL
Thank you!
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I already looked for him and concluded there is no other comparable laptop available.
The one thing I didn't do with my reply was interject an opinion on a course of action he should take. The final buy decision is not mine to make anyways. I don't care if he not bothered by the wait. I already noted the product is backordered and won't ship in a timely fashion. If he wants something that can ship now or is found in stores, fine, I gave a suggestion if that was the case.
[quote=rabbitman897]But its on sale for $300 less this week and I can't find any on any other sites with those specs (they're all way worse) since it's customized[/quote]
Yeah, I had the same problem with a Y40. It was like 400 dollars off and I ordered it and it ended up saying the ship date would be late September, which is not good at all.
Don't let the price lure you. There are plenty of other laptops you can find which suit you which you will be guaranteed a good shipping time. You just gotta look
[quote=ShadoLegend]Only order from a company that already has it. DO NOT order from the Lenovo site unless you wanna wait 2 months for it.
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-Z-and-P-series/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-Z-amp-P-series-2014-shipping-discussion/td-p/1377443
Read the last few pages of this thread.[/quote]
But its on sale for $300 less this week and I can't find any on any other sites with those specs (they're all way worse) since it's customized
[quote=rabbitman897]I am definitely going with the Lenovo G510! Thank you everyone[/quote]
Only order from a company that already has it. DO NOT order from the Lenovo site unless you wanna wait 2 months for it.
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-Z-and-P-series/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-Z-amp-P-series-2014-shipping-discussion/td-p/1377443
Read the last few pages of this thread.
I am definitely going with the Lenovo G510! Thank you everyone
The laptop you showed was great, but there are probably as laptops as good for a lower price.
http://m.bestbuy.ca/defaultpage.aspx?lang=en#/catalog/productdetails.aspx?ajax=true&sku=10300406&lang=en-CA
This laptop has about as good of a processor and a better graphic card but us on sale for 750. So you can save 150 and if you really want to use up your budget you can spend the 150 on a geek squad membership. That way, you have an extremely good "warranty" as well as a better laptop.
@rabbitman897 Years ago I bought [url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2394586,00.asp]this laptop[/url] that I am using to even now and for 600 it works really great for a bunch of games at a solid 60 fps. I also have photoshop and sony vegas pro. So like most people in this thread Lenovo is the way to go. And I even have another Lenovo thinkpad laptop. I can safely say that any new Laptop of their brand and size is more than enough. Just keep in mind that the big ones are usually 5+ lbs.
@burning are you some sort of robot/demon?
asus laptops are questionable.
how i know is because i have one.
@rofljon: Ah the good old laptop 2.8 ghz. It hurt me.
So my search went awfully bad. The target laptop processor had in mind - Intel Core i5-4200M was virtually nowhere to be found. The only laptop that had it was the [url=http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=710_577_369&item_id=067707]Lenovo G510[/url] which is massively backordered across all of Canada.
The conclusion I made off the answers to the questionnaire is that you don't need a discrete GPU and that's fine because that adds another source of internal heat and power consumption. The reason why I targeted the i5-4200M over the i5-4200U is because you get more processing performance for the same price.
So here is the $699 K550LA-DS51-CA with an Intel i5-4200U processor, 6GB of RAM, and a 500GB hard drive.
http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=710_577_369&item_id=067872
http://www.staples.ca/en/ASUS-K550LA-DS51-CA-Laptop-156-16GHz-Intel-Core-i5-4200U-500GB/product_574201_2-CA_1_20001
[quote=cool123ter]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834313740
Only laptop I recommend.[/quote]
I second this. I have the Lenovo y500(Older version with core i5) which WAS a couple hundred less and it's phenomenal running intense games like Battlefield 4.
I see you use Sony Vegas and Photoshop. On my y500 I usually run the "High Performance" setting which clocks it up to about 2.8 GHz using Adobe Premiere Pro and it works flawlessly. The upside of the gaming series of Lenovo is the ability to change the [b]Energy Management[/b] from 1.1 GHz to 2.0 GHz or even 2.8 GHz depending on what tasks I'm doing. Doing so allows you to control the battery life Downside is that it's a bit bulky and heavy. The backlit keyboard is only red so deal with the color red forever lol.
Overall LENOVO.
[quote=JustBeHonest]Never buy anything at costco... order them from their respective web site there you can customize it.[/quote]
Costco's return policy is probably the best of any retailer, online or not. There's not much to customize with most notebooks, and I don't think it's the case with the OP's choice - it's actually probably cheaper to do the small upgrades (RAM/HDD) on your own.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834313740
Only laptop I recommend.
@Burning: High School
[quote=rabbitman897]...School...[/quote]
At what education level are you?
[quote=Burning]Answer as many questions as you are willing.
What country/state do you live in?
What is the upper limit of your budget?
Would you like to save money or do you want to spend as much of your budget as possible?
Can you order online?
How much hard drive space do you want?
What games do you play or want to play?
What other programs do you use?
Do you have a preferred laptop weight?
Do you have a preferred screen size?
Is battery life important?
Why do you need a laptop? To where and how often will it be moved?
Mention any other special requests you may have. Be as detailed as you can with all your responses.[/quote]
What country/state do you live in?
Canada.
What is the upper limit of your budget?
Probably the cost of this laptop like $900.
Would you like to save money or do you want to spend as much of your budget as possible?
Save money.
Can you order online?
Yes.
How much hard drive space do you want?
750GB~1TB
What games do you play or want to play?
just Maple.
What other programs do you use?
Sony Vegas Pro 12, Photoshop
Do you have a preferred laptop weight?
Not too heavy I guess
Do you have a preferred screen size?
15 inches or 15.6 inches.
Is battery life important?
Not too important but still a concern.
Why do you need a laptop?
Because I want one.
To where and how often will it be moved?
School, around the house. So pretty often.
@JustBeHonest: For some reason it's not on the ASUS site. sooo
[quote=Burning]Answer as many questions as you are willing.
What country/state do you live in?
What is the upper limit of your budget?
Would you like to save money or do you want to spend as much of your budget as possible?
Can you order online?
How much hard drive space do you want?
What games do you play or want to play?
What other programs do you use?
Do you have a preferred laptop weight?
Do you have a preferred screen size?
Is battery life important?
Why do you need a laptop? To where and how often will it be moved?
Mention any other special requests you may have. Be as detailed as you can with all your responses.[/quote]
Ooh, <3
[quote=Burning]Answer as many questions as you are willing.
What country/state do you live in?
What is the upper limit of your budget?
Would you like to save money or do you want to spend as much of your budget as possible?
Can you order online?
How much hard drive space do you want?
What games do you play or want to play?
What other programs do you use?
Do you have a preferred laptop weight?
Do you have a preferred screen size?
Is battery life important?
Why do you need a laptop? To where and how often will it be moved?
Mention any other special requests you may have. Be as detailed as you can with all your responses.[/quote]
They should make you like a tech mod or something on this site. Every Time there's a computer thread, you always magically show up and help.
Answer as many questions as you are willing.
What country/state do you live in?
What is the upper limit of your budget?
Would you like to save money or do you want to spend as much of your budget as possible?
Can you order online?
How much hard drive space do you want?
What games do you play or want to play?
What other programs do you use?
Do you have a preferred laptop weight?
Do you have a preferred screen size?
Is battery life important?
Why do you need a laptop? To where and how often will it be moved?
Mention any other special requests you may have. Be as detailed as you can with all your responses.