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HP Laptops VS. Asus Laptops?

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RawrRawrRob
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I've been looking for a new laptop for college, for a multi-media course I am taking!
I've sorta narrowed it down to these two...

HP

Asus

I'm leaning more towards the Asus, but I would like to hear some of your guys thoughts first. If you have some other recommendations for a laptop, feel free to toss a link.

+K for good answers! :)
May 27 2012 5:35PM
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Legion
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those are both overpriced for what you are getting, and they both have sandy bridge rather than ivy bridge processors. go on xoticpc.com and build yourself a sager 9150 or 9170. You wont be disappointed. make sure to get a ssd boot/ disk combo and upgrade the processor
May 27 2012 5:40PM
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snakerton
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i hate asus computers. i had one, my dad has one and my friend had one. i hated all of them. they hated them too. i can go into detail why they suck if you want
May 28 2012 12:32AM
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1337
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Hp is shit when it comes to overheating and slow initial running speed because of all the pre-installed shit
May 28 2012 7:32AM
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.ZT.
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I enjoy my HP, more so than my mac I have no experience with anything other than Asus monitors.
May 28 2012 8:10AM
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corona
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I can attest to overheating. my HP runs super hot.

slow running speeds I disagree with. well, that might be because the instant I got it a wiped every bit of everything it had and installed Ubuntu instead then windows on a separate partition. 4 years later and it still runs super well. it doesn't run noticeably slower at all. everyone else who I know who got a laptop at the same time (whether dell or hp or mac) are plagued by them all running like shit now and it takes forever to start up + launch programs etc. although again, this may be because I fresh install the operating systems every year or two.

only problem is the screen is becoming problematic and stops working every so often.


Also, if you want a quality laptop, go with Acer. I've only ever heard good things about them.
May 28 2012 12:20PM
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RawrRawrRob
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Please do
May 28 2012 3:30PM
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snakerton
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They are really slow, get really hot, crashed all the time , too expensive for what you get and the hardware breaks
May 28 2012 5:41PM
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RawrRawrRob
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Pretty much described the hp I have right now :P
May 28 2012 10:06PM
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.Ian.
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Ok, please do not buy an HP laptop. They're shit. I treat my laptops very well and I never even keep anything on they're internal hard drives, I always kept my files on an external drive and my HP's would always crash on me. I never downloaded anything on them, and I never went to sketchy sites. I ran full virus scans once a week and it still kept crashing and not running fast at all.
I sent it back to HP because I keept getting blue screen errors and they looked at it, said that the computer is fine and sent it back. Then when I get it back, the recovery partition of my internal hard drive was gone? Like what's with that? They're customer service sucks and they're just not a good company. I do not recommend them.
May 29 2012 9:02AM
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C.Wood
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I've also heard that HP is getting out of the computer industry, so might not be the best choice. And it was a creditable source, it was straight form an HP rep
May 30 2012 3:25PM
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corona
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considering HP is by far the largest seller of computers in the world by a factor of about %35 more than the next highest company (Lenovo), I really really highly doubt this.
May 31 2012 12:04AM
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Satan666
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why would they still be releasing computers then? that doesn't seem likely
May 31 2012 12:14AM
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C.Wood
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That's just what i heard from an HP guy. I think he said its going to be along the lines of them going into more the software rather than the physical units themselves. Don't take this as 100% true, its just what i heard and that was last August, so i might not of happened.
May 31 2012 9:29AM
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michael_bc
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And Lenovo is the computer branch that IBM got rid of a couple of years ago. IBM was a very big player and got rid of its computers, I don't see why HP couldn't do the same.

Oh yeah, and their laptops are crap.
May 31 2012 9:49AM
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.Ian.
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I've actually heard similar rumors too. Not sure how accurate the rumors are, but it makes sense.
Jun 2 2012 8:23AM
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