ASUS or DELL ? this is my problem 
I have 2 Dells, love one hate the other. I bought a Dell venue pro 11. It is a great idea but has been a miserable disappointment. It had so many problems I just stopped using it.
I also have a Dell Precision M 6600. It is loaded for bear and has been very reliable and it is very powerful. I would buy another precision.
I recently bought a Lenovo Yoga 260 and I really like it. I would recommend a Lenovo.
yup, thanks
here I have an old IBM Thinkpad X61S. I am very happy with it.
But I need more power
For me Asus I have two cheap Asus (about 300 euro) and never a problem.
Also Lenovo should be good
specifically, has anyone already tried the Zenbook Serie?
is it worth it?
travis_farmer:
only one USB port?
Plugging an hub onto the chain is the common solution. My Apple Book Air comes with 2 USB ports, and the one on the left is too close to the power cord. Very annoying, practically useless. And the laptop doesn't come with an ethernet plug.
travis_farmer:
sketchy finger-print scanner?
Well, it's similar to the one mounted on X61S (IBM ThinkPad). Not so bad.
travis_farmer:
for the price, i would think a different option may be better.
Of course!
E.g. the real problem with Apple's laptops is not related to the number of USB ports they have, or the lack of a PCMCIA-express slot (which would be super fab), the problem IS their laptops are not well suited about real heating tasks, such as FEM computations, long compilations.
My BookAir is definitively a lady handbags. To be used for browsing on Facebook, ebay, and google. two fans running faster than a helicopter resulting a kernel crash due to the overheat, so I am using it like an X11 terminal (thanks to XQuartz). It's a toy, a very expensive toy. I bought it only because i got a super 60% discount, but it is not worth it.
Oh, and the MacBook/Pro, the so called "high level", it's still worse! It isn't worth the money, for the price you definitively would think a different option may be better!
My brother had put 1600 euro in hisMcDonald's-book and he recently happened to see it frying like the laptop was cooking chips. Even the best MacBook/Pro in their list was definitively not able to handle the heat generated by the cpu during a FEM analysis, and both the CPU and the GPU got damaged.
Seriously? 1600 euro to see frying chips? And the so beautiful Apple Care just sucks! More than 800 euro asked to repair the machine.
Motherboard replacement + handwork? Without any warranty that the heat-issue got sorted? Significant or worrying because of possible danger or risk, not slight or negligible, so FSK Apple, they have an undeserved reputation and we won't repair anything! We are going to trash the laptop, and we are willing to move on Dell or Asus, even if it will cost some application to be re-bought for Windows or Linux.
Every brand has issues. I've used them all. When it comes to dealing with these issues, Dell isn't so bad. A few weeks back I finally got time to connect with a Dell tech to get my inspiron 11 looked at because its touch screen requires "power pointing" to register touch LOL. The tech is familiar with the issue and fixed it remotely from the other side of the planet with little need for my involvement. Lenovo, I had one T61 and they refused to extend warranty due to a wide-spread faulty design by nVidia while some other brands extended warranty by a year. Had to pay top dollar and wasted ton of time to get it fixed. Now its fan is bad, it's just junk. Asus? I haven't got serious money in them yet, just small $200-top laptops.
dally:
yup, thankshere I have an old IBM Thinkpad X61S. I am very happy with it.
But I need more power
I have the X60
Lenovos seem to work pretty well, but they slow down after a few years.
When issues happen, whether the brand fixes them to the consumers' satisfaction is whether I decide to buy from them, now.
I bought an ASUS X205TA (low-end: 2G RAM, 32G flash, W8, < $200) netbook for my son to take to school with him a couple of years ago (lighter and (MUCH!) better battery life than his other laptop), and we were very pleased with it. I even bought a second one for myself (which I'm also happy with, though I don't use it very much.) And they're still running pretty well (although getting updates in there with only 32G of "disk" can be ... interesting.) We haven't had any trouble with them, so I can't comment too much on the vendor.
Yup. The Apple-Customer-Care just sucks. A lot! And it's expensive. A lot! FSK!
We need (especially my brother) a laptop able to perform transient analysis and FEM analysis without frying like a bag of chips. And if it happens we need a Customer-Care ready to repair it without asking an eye and a leg!
For our fixed computing we have already bought a couple of (second hand) x3500 servers by IBM, loaded with intel Xeon e5504 @ 2,0ghz, and 16GB of ram.
westfw:
I bought an ASUS X205TA
Um, interesting price from my personal candyman. A russian man who makes himself called "the hook". His real name is "Nicolay" and he usually knocks my door when has interesting things for sale. He is here now, I am offering him a cup of coffee, and he is offering me your laptop for 90 euro. Of course, second hand, but I can't refuse his offer, as he can't refuse my corrected coffee
travis_farmer:
sounds like a black-market deal for something that may be "hot". are you sure you want to post that in a public forum? :o
Nah, his alias is not 'The Crook', it's 'The Hook'. He is a recycler, and they pay him to shift out things from warehouses, especially when they go belly up (company failure). So he happens to have a lot of stuff that MUST shift out quickly. But yes, he's look also interesting for a cyberpunk novel, he is that kind of man who can tell a lot of interesting stuff
We are both in the same business: don't you guess where a part of my unix stuff come from?
And we can both show you the final commercial invoice, we both pay taxes. So it's ok.
But Sant TheHook, is better than Santa Claus
As personal wish, i'd like to see a bazaar area in this forum
- want to buy
- want to sell
- want to trade
I am 100% sure we would see similar offers.
dally:
But Sant TheHook, is better than Santa Claus
Maybe also more cold
I have that same model X205TA. It's speedy enough for emails, web (many tabs), arduino, word processing. Yes, its battery lasts many hours. For the reasons above I bought a second Asus but with celeron and touch screen. Sucks. Very slow. I won't get another celeron machine.
Hi,
I have had Toshiba, Acer and now Dell.
I was faithful to ACER for years as they provided me with a good serviceable computer, keyboard and battery replacement can be done by the owner.
My ACER died last year, HD fault, my Toshiba at work was slowing down, so my boss bought me a DELL Inspiron 15 7000.
It looks like a macbook clone from the outside.
It has a touch screen, which I regard as a good/bad thing. I suffer from neuropathy, in the fingers, and touch screens are hard for me to feel.
However it is going great, does all the YouTube and forum stuff, and engineering apps that I have loaded as well.
The only thing worrying me is that it does not have a simple clip in battery pack.
Its like an apple PC with integrated battery that may need some major work to replace if needed.
Also the power/charge plug is unique, it has three conductors and it is a straight out plug, that is the plug sticks out at 90deg to the side of the computer. In my opinion a very bad thing, it should be a right angle plug so it doesn't stickout.
I found an online store that sells these adapters for the DELL, however they are or the older version and there was no indication if the newer plug was going to be covered.
Tom... 