[darek9576]

I am buying a new laptop for uni. I know this question has been asked many many times but i am not very good when it comes to picking a laptop so i thought i would ask here.

It will be an ASUS but i dont know which particular one to buy.

Things i will be doing:

1) Programming
2) Browsing the internet
3) Listening to music
4) Watching online videos

Things i will not be doing:

1) Playing games

So if anyone can suggest anything i would REALLY appreciate it.
Price range: up to 1000 dollars.

Thanks in advance!!

[hookiethe1]

If you're looking for a workstation/multimedia center, I would go for monitor resolution in addition to all the usuals. Newegg has 3 Asus 15.6 inch laptops at $900 a piece with a resolution of 1920x1080, which is light years ahead of many of their other laptops that only have 1366x768, and after looking at it for any length of time I guarantee you'll be glad of the extra pixels. Of those 3, they have 1 with i7/4GB/500GB, one with i5/6GB/640GB and one with i5/4GB/640GB. The only other difference between the 3 is the video card, but since you don't really care, you might as well go for the best CPU/memory combo, either the i7/4GB or i5/6GB.

This post has been edited by hookiethe1: 15 September 2011 - 07:39 AM

[Curtis Rutland]

So, what kind of programming are you going to be doing? If you're doing stuff with heavy tools, you probably want a powerful computer, but if you're just doing simple stuff from the command line, you probably can get away with less.

[jon.kiparsky]

Curtis Rutland, on 15 September 2011 - 05:33 PM, said:

So, what kind of programming are you going to be doing? If you're doing stuff with heavy tools dinking around in a graphics-heavy, cycle-eating IDE, you probably want a powerful computer, but if you're just doing simple stuff from the command line doing serious programming, you probably can get away with less.

FTFY...

[Curtis Rutland]

Yeah, yeah, we have opposite opinions on what's useful and what's dinking around. I'd prefer not to get into this discussion again, as I think we both realized we're not convincing each other of anything.

[jon.kiparsky]

Yeah, I know. Just yanking your chain.

[Curtis Rutland]

Good to know that we can have serious, intense discussions arguments, and still be friends afterwards.

[jon.kiparsky]

Well, if you can't get into a good roaring fist-pounding argum discussion with your friends, what use are they?