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    Need barebone help! Which one?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by tuherick, Jun 10, 2007.

  1. tuherick

    tuherick Newbie

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    Guys,

    I need a laptop for work and may do some gaming on occasion (madden or the like). I'm comparing the Asus S96S and the Z96JM. The Z96 has a better LCD but the S96 has a better vid card. I would love one with an eSATA port (I don't think either of these have one, but with so many models out there, I'm getting lost looking at them). I plan on putting in a 160GB Seagate 7200 HDD and 2GB of dual channel corsair memory. I would like the 802.11n wireless but as long as I can change the card later, I'm fine with that.
    Majority of my work is in Word and Excel with occasional AutoCAD. I plan on running Vista Premium (or business).
    Thanks for the help. I'm a newbie!
     
    tuherick, Jun 10, 2007
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  2. mattireland

    mattireland It used to be the iLand..

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    Well if your just going to be doing word and excel stuff you don't really need the better vid card so I'd go for the Z96, although I do like Asus as a manufacturer.

    Hope this helped!
     
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    tuherick Newbie

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    tuherick, Jun 10, 2007
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