Hello all,

I purchased a Dell Inspiron 14 (N4050) with very good specs at its price of RM1,999 last year, but it was disastrous. I had to get the motherboard changed TWICE within the span of 6 months. I ended giving the laptop to my little sis.

So I'm a bit traumatized here. I am a very poor student and I need recommendations for a new laptop.

1. Preferred Brand - Acer maybe? Not Dell or HP.
2. Budget - around 2k
3. Usage - I run bioinfomatics programs locally, so I need something that runs reasonably well.
4. Preferred laptop/screen size - 14-15" +-

I'm thinking of getting Lenovo G480 as seen here: http://i45.tinypic.com/2qp8z.jpg @RM1.999. I might get extended warranty. Any thoughts? I would love more recommendations. Thanks!!

EDIT: Two posts before me recommended ASUS A45VS-VX026H and that has a better GPU than Lenovo G480 with the same CPU. So this is definitely going in my list.

This post has been edited by nadnurul: Jan 2 2013, 09:04 AM