Asus quality, how is it?

I'm looking to get a replacement notebook and the Asus A7S-A1 seems to be a comparable choice (at least for the 17.1" screen part) to my HP Pavilion after its video card got fried due to intense heat. I've only owned the p.o.s. for three years!

I live in Los Angeles and I can't seem to find a retailer that sells Asus computers. I've never owned an Asus product before and by the looks and specs of it from their website, it looks to be a pretty good manufacturer.

Since most of you are owners of the brand, is it reliable? Where is the hardware manufactured?
No offense to anyone, but I am trying to steer clear away from products that are mfg in China because I seem to have zero luck with it as far as reliability issue goes. They don't seem to last longer than two or more years, three years at most - this goes for cell phones, numerous gadgets and eventually, my $1,400 HP Pavilion notebook!

Does Asus' 'mfg' fall into this category?
I apologized for being so blunt and nasty.

 

Asus is know for its solid quality and good customer support.

I can aprove this quality part so far.

 

ASUS generally has good build quality, but be careful if you plan to use the batteries. There have been known battery issues with ASUS laptops, in particular battery wear increasing ~5% with every discharge (thus killing the battery after about 20 charges). Also, on some more recent laptops, their batteries seem to last little compared to other similar laptops from other brands (see the ASUS V2 review, for example).

Apart from the battery issues I think there have been no widespread complaints about ASUS laptops.

 

I just bought a second asus laptop. Was very impressed by the first one quality wise so it lead me to buy another.

 

i have recharged my battery well over 20 times and i have yet to experience any noticeable battery wear, maybe 10 minutes at the most (which is about 12% of my battery life).

 

If I see correctly your laptop is a F3SV. The battery wear issues I know of are in the R1f, V1s and V6j (not sure on the last one). So it is perfectly possible that your model has no issues.

Like I said, better try before you buy. And costumer support isn't that fabulous: my dad's R1f was sent to them, they returned it with a new battery saying "problem solved", but the new battery has the same problem.

80sguy: I still advise you to try the laptop you plan to buy before you do buy it. And test the battery to some extent, i.e., charge and discharge it about 5 times to see if some battery wear comes up. It's not like all ASUS batteries are rubbish, but they are also far from being all good.

 

i dunno i am pretty satisfied with the asus quality build. Only wished i could buy a v2s instead of the v2je but other then that i have no regrets. =)

 

I am very satisified with the build quality of my F3SV-B1. My wife likes it so, she is getting that machine and I plan on buying a V1S-B1.

I rarely unplug the machine, so I can't comment on battery issues.

 

Asus machines are solid in terms of build quality... as the others have mentioned, their biggest weakness is their battery life. Similarly spec'd machines from other manufacturers would probably give half an hour more of battery life.

Other than that, Asus makes some pretty good notebooks.

 

Also, since this hasn't been mentioned... it's worth noting that Asus is a major OEM company, that is, they actually make many of the laptops which are sold as Dells, Apples, etc. So... in fact, I'm sure at some point you have used an Asus in the past... in a way.

~ Brett

 

while they are a major OEM company (currently 8th in the world in own-brand notebook sales), you're referring to the fact that they're also an ODM company (makes notebooks for others), although they just spun off their ODM business so their ODM customers will stop getting mad at them for making own-brand notebooks that compete with the other brands for which they manufacture.

And overall, I'd say Asus notebook build quality is above average. Like any brand, there are customers who have never had a problem and customers who got a lemon or horrible service, but on the whole, the problems I've seen people post about their Asus notebooks tend to be significantly less serious than problems that I've seen people post about Dell's notebooks, for instance. Also, if you look at all Newegg's notebooks by satisfaction rating, Asus has a significantly higher percentage of their notebooks among the top rated than any other brand they sell. Personally, I've never had a serious hardware problem with my almost 3 year old Asus Z71v except the battery, and the faulty batteries were replaced under warranty.

 

True - with Asus, all this branding stuff is a fine line.

~ Brett

 

asus quality is very fine.

although there is some difference. I have an asus w3j and my brother an asus a6jc. But i can see that the w3j has superior build quality. The a6jc is fine but misses that finishing touch. The w3j feels rock solide..where the a6jc is little flexible..
i guess nowadays build quality => asus = dell = hp
but they are better build than eg. fujitsu.

 

generally...you get what you pay for.

As the company expands..they'll make buisness models, gamer models, bang-for-buck models, and economy models.

 

They already do - this is a great guide.

~ Brett