Which Laptop to buy this coming week?

[mikez.davao]

I am planning to buy a laptop this coming week, I have visited local shops here and have found these 3 laptops to consider with.

Usage of the laptop is mostly on:
- Internet (using firefox, opening 20 tabs simultaneously most of the times)
- MS office applications ( working on several excel files at once and most of my files are sized 10mb or more)
- other web applications..
- casual gaming ( plays casually like Sniper Elite, Civilization 4, Sim City, GTA san andreas, and the likes of Call of Duty series games)
- to be used as a desktop replacement..

Here are the laptops I'm trying to choose from:

Laptop 1
Acer Aspire 4520-401G12Mi
- AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology
- AMD Turion TL-58 (1.9Ghz, 1MB L2Cache)
- NVIDIA nForce® 610M (MCP67-MV)
- 1 GB DDR2 ( Upgradeable up to 4 GB )
- 14.1" WXGA TFT Crystalbrite LCD, 1280 x 800 pixel resolution
- NVIDIA GeForce® 7000M with up to 896 MB of TurboCache
- NVIDIA Shared Memory
- 120 GB SATA HDD

Laptop 2:
Acer Aspire 4720-3A1G12Mi
- Intel Centrino® Duo Mobile Technology
- Core 2 Duo T5450 (1.66Ghz, 2MB, 667FSB)
- Mobile Intel® GM965 Express Chipset
- 1 GB DDR2 ( Upgradeable up to 4 GB )
- 14.1" WXGA TFT Crystalbrite LCD, 1280 x 800 pixel resolution
- Intel Graphics Media accelerator X3100 with up to 358MB DVMT 4.0
- 8 MB Dedicated Memory, 350 MB Shared Memory
- 120 GB SATA HDD

Laptop 3:
Asus A8JR
- Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 (1.66Ghz)
- 512Mb DDR2-667
- Ati Radeon X2300 (128MB Dedicated, 896Mb Hyper memory)
- 120 GB sata hdd
- 14.1" WXGA (Glare)


Note: regardless of which laptop will be bought I will upgrade it to 2Gb Memory..

Can you please rank them in order of the most likely you will buy?

Thanks

Laptop Links:
Acer Aspire 4520-401G12Mi
Acer Aspire 4720-3A1G12Mi
Asus A8JR

[skywalker]

I vote for Asus A8Jr, though it only comes with low end GPU, but as it's a dedicated one, it will smoke the other.

[Arki]

Asus build quality trumps Acer in all aspects. You will have a longer lasting laptop too. And your gaming needs definitely calls for a dedicated video card. Word processing and email could be handled by either Acer, just not gaming.

[Precursor]

+1 Asus A8Jr. Get the ram in order and it will be leagues better than the others.

[KnightUnit]

I would go with the Asus aswell.

[BrassMonkey1010]

Asus. Just upgrade the ram and you will be good.

[Johnny T]

ASUS definitely

[Ghola]

Door number 3!!!!!

[mikez.davao]

I have been roaming around in some other local shops here..and I found this:

Acer Aspire 4520G-401G16Mi
AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology
- AMD Turion TL-58(1.9Ghz, 1MB L2Cache)
- NVIDIA nForce® 610M (MCP67-MV)
- 1 GB DDR2 ( Upgradeable up to 4 GB )
- 14.1" WXGA TFT Crystalbrite LCD, 1280 x 800 pixel resolution
- NVIDIA GeForce® 8400M G with up to 1 GB of TurboCache
- 128 MB Dedicated Memory, up to 896 MB Shared memory
- 160 GB SATA HDD

is this laptop at par with the Asus A8JR? the price difference is 3,000 Philippine Pesos..

I'm planning to buy the Acer Aspire 4520G-401G16Mi since the shop selling the Asus A8JR would not accept my credit card..

[Johnny T]

I would not recommend any ACER The ASUS is much better build than the ACER...