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p.3 #2 · p.3 #2 · Mac Guy Needs to Buy Windows Laptop for Wife - What Do You Recommend? | |
rdcny wrote:
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anyway, how much weight can your wife handle? The Sagar and the Asus I link to below are 7-10pds...that is a lot for a woman to haul from place to place. That being said, I own and use this one...Asus G75VW (17in screen) - with 16 GB Ram and a 256 SSD...here are a couple of inexpensive ones on Ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ASUS-G75VW-NS72-i7-3610QM-2-6GHz-16GB-750GB-256GB-GTX-670M-17-3-Gaming-Laptop-/261437572610?pt=Laptops_Nov05&hash=item3cdee4c602
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ASUS-Notebook-G75VW-DH72-17-3-Intel-Core-i7-3630QM-2-40GHz-750GB-HDD-16GB-Memo-/261381608409?pt=Laptops_Nov05&hash=item3cdb8ed3d9
good luck...I am just putting my ideas up for you - no need to purchase...first one above is with Windows 7...second is Win 8. I prefer Win 7..and I use both extensively.
I'd really suggest the Haswell chip over the Ivy Bridge if budget is no concern. I got my Asus with an Ivy Bridge, but it was deep discount as the z's and Haswell just came out. Haswell is just more energy efficient and much cooler. That said, the speed difference is negligible. It's got all kinds of overclocking software that I don't use - but if it's as stable as my Gryphon at home, you can overclock and still have a cool and stable system.
Other than that - those ROG Asus' are great machines (you need to seem them in person to appreciate how nicely built they are) - and those are good prices on eBay!
I forgot to mention I run Sony Vegas Pro, Soundforge, CS5.5 Illustrator, Bridge/Photoshop, In Design, Flash (not much longer I hope!), Dreamweaver, Lightroom 5 and Strata Design 3D CX on the thing. I only got a 1TB drive - although SSD is getting cheaper by the day. I've got SSD in my desktop PC for the OS and apps.
Actually, I've gotten to really like windows 8! I've migrated everyone in the office(s) to 8 now, my wife is the lone holdout. I'm just having better luck with 8 (now 8.1) than 7 ultimate. But I gotta admit - it took a year or so for it to all fall together. Since I use a secure VPN to talk to the office - Cisco wasn't really wanting to move forward on 64 bit anything. I had to use a hack even for windows 7! But now all of that's working fine too.
Anyway, I think my one complaint about Asus would be so many models with slight variations within each family doesn't help consumers much as there's so much overlap. As far as customer service, an Engineer at work had them ship a replacement out before he had to send his in, which is pretty neat. Of course, that wouldn't help the average person I suppose...
My wife has a case on wheels, she's a realtor so the laptop is the least of her concerns. However, there's a balancing act as she still needs a light system, but a large monitor. Which is why she'll be getting an Asus, be it new or mine fairly soon! It's much lighter than her Dell - which is literally falling apart. Physical build isn't all that either on Dells. Night and day.
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