• Which Laptop should I choose?
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Right now I've come down to two different laptops. It's between an ASUS and MSI. [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834231631[/url] [url]http://www.xoticpc.com/msi-gs70-stealthpro210-p-7155.html?wconfigure=yes[/url] The main difference between the two is the MSI has 3 slightly better components. A slightly better i7 processor: 4700HQ<4710HQ Thinner and more lightweight: 9.9lbs<5.7lbs Twice the Gbs for the graphics card: Nvidia Geforce GTX 6gb 870m<3gb 870m The ASUS has 3 things against the MSI aswell. The ASUS is $1919.67(with tax) opposed to the MSi being 2149.99(with tax). The ASUS has an optical drive whereas the MSI doesn't. The ASUS has a thunderbolt port where the MSI doesn't. Both the laptops have a 1 year parts and labor warranty and 1 year accidental that come with it. What really makes my decision is whether or not the ASUS is built better and comes with better support or vice versa. I'm going to be doing some heavy movie editing and gaming with this laptop along with my regular school routines aswell. For those who wonder, this is a desktop replacement, I would buy a desktop for cheaper but I'm a more portable person. So as just a quick run down, I'm looking for the better build that will last for a couple years and will suit to my needs as a video editor and a gamer. Thanks for the help!
Both of those laptops are really good, but the ASUS does sound like a better choice. You will rarely, if ever, use all six gigs of VRAM on the MSI's GPU unless you want to hook your laptop up to a 4K monitor and play on that all the time. 3GB is more than fine for 1080p gaming, and video work usually deals with your system memory, not your graphics chip's memory. The difference of 0.1GHz between those CPUs will be hardly noticeable unless you're some kind of hardcore benchmarking enthusiast (which shouldn't really be done with laptops anyway, benchmarking is more of a desktop thing in most cases). Finally, there's the advantage that the ASUS laptop is nearly $200 cheaper than the MSI one for almost the exact same performance. While getting a beefy rig for gaming and video editing is always nice, saving money wherever possible can make things a lot easier in the long run.
[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;44788511]Both of those laptops are really good, but the ASUS does sound like a better choice. You will rarely, if ever, use all six gigs of VRAM on the MSI's GPU unless you want to hook your laptop up to a 4K monitor and play on that all the time. 3GB is more than fine for 1080p gaming, and video work usually deals with your system memory, not your graphics chip's memory. The difference of 0.1GHz between those CPUs will be hardly noticeable unless you're some kind of hardcore benchmarking enthusiast (which shouldn't really be done with laptops anyway, benchmarking is more of a desktop thing in most cases). Finally, there's the advantage that the ASUS laptop is nearly $200 cheaper than the MSI one for almost the exact same performance. While getting a beefy rig for gaming and video editing is always nice, saving money wherever possible can make things a lot easier in the long run.[/QUOTE] I just bought the ASUS, thanks for helping me reassure myself. I had my eye set on the ASUS but MSI had brought it some competition.
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