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    Wanting to buy a new Asus notebook

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by alexno, Jul 31, 2008.

  1. alexno

    alexno Newbie

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    Hey people. its time for me to buy a new comp. I know i want to buy Asus but dunno which one. I want a good notebook with good price. I mainly will use it for media and some good games, i would like to play it at hishest settings. Also the screen should be 15 or 17 inches. So could somebody advise me somethig plx?

    thnx
     
  2. Wishmaker

    Wishmaker BBQ Expert

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    Where do you live? If in Europe, stay away from this brand. They are amateurs and only want to take your money. They don't care about the client or the product they sell. Have a look at what happened to me and at other Asus adventures.
     
  3. alexno

    alexno Newbie

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    I live in europe, but it doesnt matter coz im determined to buy Asus i think its one of the best notebooks at a reasonable price
     
  4. umpcwag

    umpcwag Notebook Enthusiast

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    I advice you to wait a little bit until ASUSTEK announces their new models
     
  5. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Those new models are EEE. The OP said he wants a 15 or 17 incher.

    Firstly, although I do not entirely agree with Wishmaker's generalization to the entire EU as having poor support, I will second his cautionary note. Specifically, I have seen (only) bad stories for ASUS support in:
    UK
    Portugal
    Luxembourg (Wishmaker)

    Mixed stories from Germany and Holland (although Holland, UK, Germany, and Luxembourg actually seem to use the same support center). Maybe just luck.

    Next, I would suggest you definitely take a look at the new M50 and M70 models. There are reviews linked from the Info Booth.
     
  6. Turbogear

    Turbogear Notebook Deity

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    I also back E.B.E. and can say that ASUS support is not necessarily that bad.
    I personally did not have any bad experience with them here is Germany.

    Their telephone support is also reasonable and they were able to help me 80% of the time. Although there were few cases were I had to ring them multiple times to get the proper solution to a problem.

    The only thing which I dislike about the support line is that they changed it last year from free support service to 14 c/min from landline and from mobile it's even more expensive.
    At my work place I cannot call the ASUS number from landline and I have to use my mobile and sometimes I end up paying about 8€ for a single call!! :mad:
     
  7. chaosdragon656

    chaosdragon656 Notebook Enthusiast

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    i can recommend the g50v or the m50vm models....
     
  8. mit5u

    mit5u Notebook Enthusiast

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    I will preferred Asus C90. I heard from rumors that the graphic card can be upgradable in the future. So no necessarily to buy a new laptop in the future.
     
  9. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    If you're talking about the C90S: Those rumors are out of date. ASUS has never released a worthwhile GPU upgrade for the C90S. There was a DDR3 update of the video card but they pulled it due to some incompatibilities. So all available GPU options for C90S are out of date and worse than what you get in today's mid-high-range laptops such as M50 or G50.

    The only advantage of the C90S is that it has a desktop CPU (i.e. faster), but I'm not sure how it fares w.r.t. to latest mobile CPUs.

    If you're talking about C90P... it hasn't been released yet. So it's unclear whether the story about the GPU upgrades that never come will be repeated.

    Overall, I'd recommend against buying a C90S at this point, and being very cautious about the C90P.