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- Oct 21, 2010
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- Montreal, CA / Alburgh, VT
Hey guys,
So today, I've decided its time to get a new laptop because my crappy Toshiba NB200 is just... garbage. (1GB of ram and 1.2Ghz atom singlecore)
I am in my 1st year of cegep, (12th grade in the us I think ?) and I am looking for a lightweight, compact, and with decent specs. Here are the requirements I am looking for in a laptop :
- 13 inch or less screen
- 4 GB of ram, (don't really need more)
- i5 or i7
- 6h+ battery life-time.
- HD3000 atleast (if it can play 1080p yt vids, im happy)
- NOT a mac
Oh and my budget is around 1k and I am not going over 1.1k.
So i've done a bit of research and found the asus B23e.
i7, 4gb of ram, 13 inch and looks decent.
http://www.asus.com/Commercial_Notebooks/B23_Series/B23E/
But after reading reviews, the battery seems to suck the big one.
So off searching more... Yesterday, I stumbled on a new category of notebooks, ULTRABOOKS which offer powerful, lightweight and small packages with sleek looks.
In this category, I found the Asus Zenbook :
http://www.asus.com/Notebooks/Superior_Mobility/ASUS_ZENBOOK_UX31E/
Its 13.3 inch, has a 1600x900 resolution shock, i5, 4gb of ram and a 128gb SSD for 1050 bucks. AND, looks freaking awesome.
I checked out the acer s3, and the chronos 7 from samsung, but they are not up to the zenbook's level.
What do you guys think about the zenbook ? Is there a better alternative out there ?
Thanks,
Max
So today, I've decided its time to get a new laptop because my crappy Toshiba NB200 is just... garbage. (1GB of ram and 1.2Ghz atom singlecore)
I am in my 1st year of cegep, (12th grade in the us I think ?) and I am looking for a lightweight, compact, and with decent specs. Here are the requirements I am looking for in a laptop :
- 13 inch or less screen
- 4 GB of ram, (don't really need more)
- i5 or i7
- 6h+ battery life-time.
- HD3000 atleast (if it can play 1080p yt vids, im happy)
- NOT a mac
Oh and my budget is around 1k and I am not going over 1.1k.
So i've done a bit of research and found the asus B23e.
i7, 4gb of ram, 13 inch and looks decent.
http://www.asus.com/Commercial_Notebooks/B23_Series/B23E/
But after reading reviews, the battery seems to suck the big one.
So off searching more... Yesterday, I stumbled on a new category of notebooks, ULTRABOOKS which offer powerful, lightweight and small packages with sleek looks.
In this category, I found the Asus Zenbook :
http://www.asus.com/Notebooks/Superior_Mobility/ASUS_ZENBOOK_UX31E/
Its 13.3 inch, has a 1600x900 resolution shock, i5, 4gb of ram and a 128gb SSD for 1050 bucks. AND, looks freaking awesome.
I checked out the acer s3, and the chronos 7 from samsung, but they are not up to the zenbook's level.
What do you guys think about the zenbook ? Is there a better alternative out there ?
Thanks,
Max
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