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dell, asus, or apple?
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Laptop? Apple > Asus > Dell
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Laptop? Apple > Asus > Dell



Yup, laptop only.
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dell, asus, or apple?


If your budget is 1200 or less don't bother with an apple. They short change you on dollars for features even more on the lower cost macbooks and frankly the way apps have progressed, you'll be hard pressed to find something the iphone is naturally compatible with that you can't get by downloading an app.

Dell has never had good customer service. At your price point I'd go Asus.
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Yup, laptop only.


Apple laptop is one of the best on the market imo.
After that, I would shop for a Dell XPS.

If you are like me and are very into "bring your laptop everywhere", then pick a Thinkpad because they are just unkillable. Very pricey, but unkillable.
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If your budget is 1200 or less don't bother with an apple. They short change you on dollars for features even more on the lower cost macbooks and frankly the way apps have progressed, you'll be hard pressed to find something the iphone is naturally compatible with that you can't get by downloading an app.

Dell has never had good customer service. At your price point I'd go Asus.


Yup , 1,200 is probably the highest I'll go. The asus I'd look to get is the ZenBook. I won't be playing games on this computer what so ever. Basically for watching hockey , work, netflix, and browsing. I'm sold on an ultrabook though, at this point it's a must.

Quote (ChoJo @ Mar 9 2015 07:11pm)
Apple laptop is one of the best on the market imo.
After that, I would shop for a Dell XPS.

If you are like me and are very into "bring your laptop everywhere", then pick a Thinkpad because they are just unkillable. Very pricey, but unkillable.


I don't take it everywhere. I'd take it to school occasionally, and anytime I would go traveling.


The problem I have with Apple is their OS. Most of the programs I use at school are windows programs and I see it every semester that someone in my class will have a problem with their Apple OS using the windows programs.

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Yup , 1,200 is probably the highest I'll go. The asus I'd look to get is the ZenBook. I won't be playing games on this computer what so ever. Basically for watching hockey , work, netflix, and browsing. I'm sold on an ultrabook though, at this point it's a must.



I don't take it everywhere. I'd take it to school occasionally, and anytime I would go traveling.


The problem I have with Apple is their OS. Most of the programs I use at school are windows programs and I see it every semester that someone in my class will have a problem with their Apple OS using the windows programs.


Than I would shop for a Dell XPS.

If you can wait, wait for a good deal, usualy you can find some of them on RedFlagDeals forum. Ive bough a refurb Asus Xenbook for 550$, the original price was 1300$. It still work 100% fine after 3 years already.

This post was edited by ChoJo on Mar 9 2015 08:19pm
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Than I would shop for a Dell XPS.

If you can wait, wait for a good deal, usualy you can find some of them on RedFlagDeals forum. Ive bough a refurb Asus Xenbook for 550$, the original price was 1300$. It still work 100% fine after 3 years already.



How do you like the zenbook? thats the one I'm leaning towards currently.

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msca/en_CA/pdp/ASUS-Zenbook-UX303LA-US51T-Signature-Edition-Laptop/productID.313369000
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I truly hate the keyboard and the speaker. But I almost never play music on it, so its all good. Still, the keyboard is very bad unfortunatly.

Other than that, its quick, thin, doesnt get hot and doesnt come with too much crapware. Its a good laptop, still I won't get another one cause I just don't like the typing experience.
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I truly hate the keyboard and the speaker. But I almost never play music on it, so its all good. Still, the keyboard is very bad unfortunatly.

Other than that, its quick, thin, doesnt get hot and doesnt come with too much crapware. Its a good laptop, still I won't get another one cause I just don't like the typing experience.


What SSD? 256GB?

I can get the dell xps same price as zen but dell only 128gb , its 1169 for the 256 gb one.

I don't use it for music, im more likely to hook it up to my stereo though for youtube or itunes and play like that.
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