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post Jul 6 2017, 09:51 AM

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Haven't kept up with latest trends in laptop prices, how much would I expect to pay for an Asus like this:-

1. FHD at least
2. 256GB or more SSD (or mSata/additional SATA port, I do need quite a bit of storage but 128 is way too constricting for my work)
3. 8GB or more RAM.
4. Full-day (>8hr) battery life
5. i5 or i7, likely prefer i5 for battery life. My work is fairly CPU intensive.
6. Graphics card fairly optional. Only if it doesn't affect battery life, as that's more important.
7. Least important, preferably light (including the charger). My current N56V is almost perfect, but battery lasts like 8 minutes now and the laptop+charger is crazy heavy. New laptops look much better for that.

QUOTE(billysiah @ Jul 4 2017, 02:46 PM)
hi i would like to ask if i can change my ASUS N56V laptop hdd to ssd hard disk?
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Definitely, my N56V (bought 2013) changed to SSD a year after I got it, never looked back. Even kept the old HDD in a special brace replacing the DVD drive which I never use.

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post Jul 6 2017, 02:13 PM

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QUOTE(springfall @ Jul 6 2017, 10:59 AM)
just brought a 2016 late Dell mid gaming i7quad gtx for 3.4k with ssd/hhd combo FHD
build is relatively good and battery lasts 4-5hrs
and another 2016 late dell inspiron 15 i5 amd 2.8k HD with no ssd but fully optimized (means its as fast as my n53sn ssd in most parts other than ps/ai/cad).
can last 6 hrs so far (just need to swap out to ssd)

planning to get another laptop soon (rog thin one or xps)
but you are probably looking at 3k onward.

I would strongly recommend looking at the xps (and probably buying it overseas as its so much cheaper) if ur budget allows
FHD-QHD 97% colour accuracy, i7 quad, 16gb ram, ssd setup combo HHD, gtx 1050 and very good battery life (starting at 6k lah)

else go for ROG thin (red black design 1) 4.2k
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Thanks. XPS is not totally out of my budget but there's depreciating returns on what is basically a consumable item in the long term. So like if I pay 50% more, do I really get 50% more utility out of it compared to something that's 3.5k or so. Based on the quick spec comparison there, not really.

Older liao, have to start thinking about actual use case and what I really will use rather than chasing the best =)

Thanks for your recommendation. All gaming machines, looks like. In particular I wonder whether Dell is any better now than 5 years ago (when lots of my friend's dell had to extended warranty cos use it every few months). Asus been good to me and family so far so currently tending towards just going for another one. RoG looks like a good idea though probably too 'cool' for me, let me check that out.
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post Jul 6 2017, 03:35 PM

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QUOTE(springfall @ Jul 6 2017, 03:10 PM)
RoG full fat version cannot pakai for work (attention too great and too heavy, why cuz i owned 1), but the slim 1 will be cool/awesome in meetings and so.

As for Dell rep, Yes i agree that they suck badly last time, but i gave them a chance to renew themselves as the builds they are making so far seems to get better and better.

The inspiron 15 5000 is not gaming grade but for normal office use (word, excel, and basic cad process) RM2.7k (I asked for special discount)
The inspiron 15 7000 is mid tier gaming used for graphical works, cad, etc which is more than sufficient. RM3.8k (which went to RM4.2k later)

I must say that the the build of Dell has improved sufficiently and have some nice features like bios lock out, which is useful to lockdown the hhd and motherboard cpu in case of raids tongue.gif

the cons is that their software x hardware is still a mess as drivers are mostly proprietary and the default win 10 setup is farked up (drivers, software, running backgrounds, etc)
I had to wiped every driver out and reinstall back, cancel every hidden background in windows (xbox, alarm, phone, messaging, tablet, etc) to make the laptop work better.

but overall my N53SN is still my main workhorse which never crapped out (the build is awesome as always) but I am currently looking for an upgrade soon.

I would say that after >4 years a 3.5k laptop will pay off itself for normal usage and 2 years if for productivity.
And if you do heavy render works in the office, a 4.5k laptop will payoff easily due to the time saved, and the infrequent crashes of GPU/CPU.

The xps 15 6k-7k, i do agree it will need super justification for it to pay off itself, but you will benefit from the long running services of updated drivers from dell, which might be important.
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Have never seen slim RoG, the ones I see are gila heavy and edgy. Will have to walk walk in mall to see, still quite doubtful whether will be suitable for work environment.

Software is not an issue to me as I don't use Windows (work is all on Linux and related anyway since years ago). So I look basically for solid hardware, no 'special' things, and drivers aren't a big deal.
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post Aug 17 2017, 05:03 AM

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QUOTE(zuiichi @ Aug 17 2017, 12:50 AM)
planned to replace my asus zenbook ux32vd harddisk with firecuda. what is the size for the harddisk shud i get? .

shud i get any performance gain as this laptop already have 32gb of ssd and 500gb hardrive. im not sure whther the ssd and hdd can be install independantly
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Firecuda is a SSHD? Your current SSD + HDD is better. SSHD is in my experience not that much better than HDD performance-wise.

Of course, 32GB is a bit small....
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post Apr 18 2018, 01:19 PM

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QUOTE(greggs @ Apr 17 2018, 11:08 PM)
i actually have a question, recently bought a UX331UN, encounter the issue, where it overheat when i put it in sleep mode and place inside my bag..

anyone encounter this problem on any asus laptop?
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Ooh that's a nice machine, wish it'd been available when I was changing laptop end of last year.

The issue is that the laptop is waking up when moving around. I've had that happen before and I think it's to do with some keys being pressed. Not sure if windows supports disabling keyboard-wake for sleeping (don't use it), but that may help.

 

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