hi there, i thought of opening a new thread rather than posting in recommendation thread.

lately i noticed there are demand in buying a 14" laptop that gives 8hours or more battery life (kudos to Acer for starting this trend).

and so i thought of buying one of those with a budget of RM2900~3000.

currently im looking at:

1. Acer Timeline 4810TG (C2D SU9400, 320GB harddisk, 2GB DDR3 RAM, ATI Mobility 4330, Vista Home Premium)

2. Asus UL80V (C2D SU7300, 320GB Harddisk, 2GB DDR3 RAM, Nvidia Geforce 210M, Vista Home Premium)

3. Dell Inspiron 14z (C2D SU7300, 320GB hard disk, 3GB DDR3 RAM, ATI Mobility 4330, Vista Home Premium)

which is better among all 3? i can't seem to choose.

Points:
1. Dell has the best aftersales service, but only 1 year warranty until i can stretch the budget.
2. Asus has Turbo33 Technology which overclocks the processor to 1.73Ghz from 1.3Ghz, and faster graphic card (Geforce 210m).
3. Acer is more business oriented. looks bland, but it does fine to me w/o all that glossy fingerprint stuffs (Asus and Dell is glossy iianm)
4. Windows 7, yeah i can wait for the windows 7 version of these laptops, just that i need early preparation on which to choose.
5. performance between these laptops.

i need feedbacks. afterall, CULV laptops with 14" are still new in the market.

This post has been edited by cloudstrife07: Oct 12 2009, 03:20 AM

yes i do need it nowadays as i'm helping my mom doing her business. having to search power socket now and then for presentation or for showing her customer her business stuffs in the laptop is quite irritating sometimes to me and her. and no, i dont want to squint my eyes so no 10" netbooks.

and who knows, maybe that loooooonnnggg battery life has its other use

im leaning towards the Asus, but then yeah, people owning that Dell and Asus is nowhere to be found here, except 1, jeremy0 who is owning the Asus UL80V.

i do agree it last 4~5 hours if you're constantly viewing HD movies or playing games. most of the reviews i saw on the net said that 8 hours is achievable. they even test it like a normal user; on the wifi, constantly surfing on flash webpages, some movies, download etc and they got it up to 7 hours++ which is pretty interesting.

well, atleast when u need more performance than usual, u can just OC it. i heard even after OC, that UL80V still has considerably long battery life for an overclocked laptop.

yup, that's the main point, less hassle to look for power socket everytime.

any other inputs, preferably from users themselves?

M1X, u really made me tempted to buy the UL80VT