[QUOTE=JohnEdwards;29554053]Wait do you want battery life, or gaming, well if it comes with optimus it should be good, but 8hrs of battery life is a great thing for college. Asus also offers an accidental everything plan, which really sells it.[/QUOTE]
I'm fine as long as the battery life is 3.5 hours or more, as probably the longest I'll have it unplugged is at lectures. Right now it's a competition between the N53SV and the NP5160 I just linked.
Because I'm constantly finding people saying Sager has horrible build quality and customer service, I'll probably go with the Asus. It's a shame though, because I'd be saving $100 with the Sager, plus it'd have an eSATA port.
[QUOTE=wlzshroom;29554281]except slower since usb 2.0 (i have not seen any usb 3.0 flash drives) can't compare to sata
also readyboost wears out the flash drive really fast[/QUOTE]
HDDs has good throughput but bad latency. Usb drives have bad throughput but good latency.
Also no it doesn't wear out the flash drive really fast. It does wear it out [i]faster[/i] because regularly you aren't reading and writing to it often. But it is by no means "really fast"
I do Computer Science at Uni in the UK, so i'd like to give you some tips:
Focus on weight and battery life over raw computer performance. 3.5 hours is really not enough for uni, and charging will be a hassle. Any laptop nowadays can do light gaming, so you don't need to push the boat out there. You will need battery life and weight though as you will be pulling a laptop around all day, and trust me, while I'm not saying you are weak, if you are going to be carrying around something all day it's simply more comfortable to have something to be as light as possible.
Defo do not go over 15 inch in screen size, but I'd really look into the 13-15 inch range. In lecture theatres (atleast in mine), the desks are just about big enough to fit my 13 inch Macbook, so assuming yours are roughly similar you don't want to get a colossal laptop. I'd also look into good linux compatibility. Again, this is all conjecture based on my own course, but having a Unix OS is a godsend, and it is a pain using the Windows PCs at Uni and having to use PuTTY and the like.
^ that, yes 3.5 sounds great, but like when I went to college I realized it was not enough I ended up buying a netbook and stopped using the other laptop, the G41 will game fine a 425 if good for gaming [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxElG3neRdE"]click here[/URL] and a i3 is fine it is quad threaded so speed won't be an issue.
In college the battery life is what you need, the gaming is what you want and a 425m will do fine as long as you are doing 1920x1080 very high all
I'll take your word for needing battery power as I don't want to end up in a position where the computer dies on me. I may have to push back my purchase until tomorrow because my dad can't talk about it with me tonight, but I'll keep the U41JF in mind.
To Dr. Egg- Concerning Linux, I've never used it and I'm not sure how much I'll require it. I know that nVidia drivers don't usually play nice with linux so focusing on compatibility would narrow my search quite a lot.
Don't run linux on a laptop, save yourself the time and trouble use windows for that SSH with putty into a linux box
Or install wubi.
(Windows Ubuntu)
Really really easy ubuntu / windows dual boot solution.
[QUOTE=dbk21894;29572303]Or install wubi.
(Windows Ubuntu)
Really really easy ubuntu / windows dual boot solution.[/QUOTE]
no, putty is fine, if you want just run a VM with linux in it
[QUOTE=LaserOfDoom;29559015]I know that nVidia drivers don't usually play nice with linux so focusing on compatibility would narrow my search quite a lot.[/QUOTE]
Depends on which driver.
Nouveau sucks, but the proprietary NVidia drivers are actually quite nice.
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