Hi guys. I need recommendation.
Budget: 3K~4K
Brand: doesn't matter, but hopefully not Dell (got phobia already...)
Battery life at least 3 hours and above (very often outdoor doing presentation)
Usage: mainly illustrator, photoshop, power point presentation, very often multi-tasking, will run at least 3-5 software all together.
Size: above 15"
My current laptop (bought by company): Dell Inspiron N4110, I5-2410M with 2GB ram...hang and lag like crazy when I wanna do my work. Saving illustrator file sometimes will caused the software stop responding and I have to open up task manager to terminate it..

i've already killed 2 laptops and 3 pcs in my office within 1 year time...all happened to be 'dell'... phobia phobia...portability is not an issue to me thou...

I also don't know...it keeps on lag, hang, lag, hang then later on black out and pooofff! sent back to manufacturer. It just happened. The 3 desktops that died under my hand, after reformat and fixed it and this and that, our IT guy don't dare to give it to me no more... so now for desktop, they are giving me a new i5-2400 with 4GB ram since yesterday... but the problem is that my current lappy still lag like crazy so I can't do any presentation outdoor at all and I cannot do any graphic work because the application will just freezes there when I try to save the work... I don't really care about the warranty thou since it was purchased by my company but the worst nightmare is when the PC died before I manage to back up all my files...

i also feel very weird... i didn't do any 'weird' thing to the pc tho.. my IT guy told me that 'it just somehow happened to be yours..coincidentally..' cuz 2 units were having hardware malfunctioned..but my own desktop at home nvr have any problem at all in this 3 years...

they are all brand new cuz it came with the receipt.. they keep telling me maybe it was just me so unlucky every time also given a problematic unit
but i think i'll go and get a N53SV if u guys think that will be sufficient for my need after all, i am really not good with tech thingy...all i hope is just no more lag and hang and freeze when doing graphic work

errr.. cuz MAC is not so 'user friendly' to my staff .. it will be troublesome when i am not around and i ask them to access the lappy.. some more i am not so sure that my IT people can handle it as well when come to file sharing

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Added on July 24, 2011, 10:53 amwill they continue production later on beside n53sv and n53sf, what other model that i can look into?

This post has been edited by Lysze: Jul 24 2011, 10:53 AM