Where does Asus fit in (the laptop world)?

I am just getting into laptops after many years of desktops and pdas.
Question: Although I know the big name, mainstream laptops to be found at the likes of Best Buy, Staples, etc. but I am now trying to get a handle on Asus and Acer. With the exception of the high ticket models, is Asus considered a good value for the money brand, or is Asus concentrated more towards the enthusiast/tech person part of the market?

 

Asus isnt very known to consumers (they know like dell/hp) but Asus produces good laptops (mostly) and has execellent customer support.

And it is considered a good value for money brand.

 

Yea, what he said ^^^.... Asus isn't very bad at all, theres a lot of computer brands out there that Asus beats (A WHOLE LOT of brands out there, believe it or not), but thats not to say its the best brand to go for...

 

Personally, I place ASUS on top of both HP and Dell, as well as Toshiba. I'll probably place it along side of Sony, if not higher.

 

They are very good although for the last year they have had some (many) problems concerning battery life. Everything that came after the C90S has horrible battery life. Heat is also a problem for the c90s and everything that came after.

Looks like their new engineers have problems, hope they fix that

 

The Asus engineers have done a great job with making the M50Sv line with very low heat output.

 

asus is the worlds largest mother board maker

they are the world leader in heat reduction.

There is no machine like a c90 from another maker they could not do it.

my a8js has no heat while my friends inspiron 9300 with integrated graphics will melt the plastic gooey if you leave it on for hours.

 

Right now I would say that ASUS is focused on high-performance, dedicated GPU machines at a competitive price. So yes, they are usually a good value for the money in terms of performance.

But that's not all they have to offer. Some of their business models are still worth considering, with very good build quality; and they have a good line of ultraportables (the U series).

Indeed their battery life is quite bad recently. But that's not I think incompetence on the engineers' side, it's just a lack of focus; they focus more on performance than battery life.

This focus is different from Acer, which I think focuses on cheap laptops. But I wouldn't know, I've never followed Acer closely (i just steered clear of them, as far as I could )

 

Yeah, the build quality for Asus surpasses those well known companies. And IMO I think the Asus notebooks look much nicer than other notebooks.

 

They make very poor notebooks like the F3 series, and have 0 out of 100 for european customer support, and 0 out of 100 for the shoddy repairs undertaken by A-novo UK repair centre.

All is well until all goes wrong.

 

Nope, the Netherlands support is quite good actually. Even within Europe, you get wildly varying support quality. I know UK and Italy are bad, and have no idea about other countries.

I hope we don't have to go through this argument again. The link to the conclusion of the previous argument are in the Info Booth.

Yep, the F3 has the major crack issue. But they also make quite good business notebooks such as the W7S (see my neighboring review). So it's actually on a model-by-model basis...

 

Asus also recently split off their ODM business from their branded business. Asus is the 7th or 8th best selling notebook brand in the world. They're huge in Asia, mainstream in Europe, and gaining popularity in North America. They offer one of the best, if not the best, standard warranty in the industry (2 years global coverage), although the quality of their warranty and tech support varies by location (good in Asia and North America, bad in the UK and some other parts of Europe). They offer a wide range of notebooks and tend to have more unique options with some of their notebooks than other manufacturers (like the leather trim of some VX and U series notebooks, eSATA ports on several models, the desktop platform and upgradeability of the C90, and the number pad on the M50 & M51 series). Their models tend to be above average in build quality, with some exceptions, and the vast majority of them contain a dedicated video card. With few exceptions, Asus notebooks are priced very competitively and are a good value for the money. The only consistent negative to current Asus notebook models is that they universally have lower than average battery life. In an interview by Laptop Magazine, Asus CEO Jerry Shen mentioned plans to increase battery life of the Eee subnotebooks later this year, and it can be hoped that they will use similar new battery technology to extend the battery life of their other notebooks as well.

 

actually, ASUS is bigger than Dell in Asia.

HP is top but Acer comes close second in terms of sells, Dell is no where in the top ten list here.

but he(OP) is in the US so your right Dell is the no1 there.

ASUS is, to me at least , not a vlue laptop brand (like Acer or BenQ) , its recent success with the EE made its image so cheap but it is originally an expensive brand ,its main line of laptops are made very well with top-quality materials like leather in the U6 and U2E, Carbon fiber in the G1, G2 series.

Acer, on the other hand , is a pure value brand but is trying to change its image with the NEW AS 6920G series as well and Acer is succeeding in that.

By the way, the ASUS service is great , won the wall street jounal Asia support /service of the year in Asia.

Acer also provides one of the best service around , and Acer is the no2 in terms of sells in the world, so you won't go wrong with either of them.

BOTH ARE GREAT BRANDS.

And don't forget its 2year warranty and 1 year insurance for all its laptops.

I think ASUS is the only one brand to provide you both XP and Vista recovery discks(at least where I am at now).

 

I think you are right on that, Acer focuses on pricing lowest in the market.

 

I wish this dual XP/Vista business was also the case in Europe... here it's just Vista unfortunately.

 

asus orignated from the acer motherboard business in the 80s

acer split apart into many companies including auo which makes lcds, and wistron which makes laptop chassis for dell and lennovo

 

Asus has to me always represented quality. When it comes to motherboards its first class. At laptops i love the design, at least on my G1S. I remember about 9 months ago when i bought my G1S it would out-perform most of my friends DESKTOPS! Even from the first CD reader that had a 16x max i bought that was Asus ive been satisfied!

Oh happy days when i went from the 4x to the 16x!!


¨¨kids these days should stop complaining, they dont know how good their computer is!¨¨

 

True, true. It's amazing to me, but my G1s can still game all of the newest games at max or near max settings...something that my desktop can't even touch even though it has similar parts... Heh.