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thescreensavers

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Its a shame, they make great laptops but the average person has no idea about the brand name. And about 90% brand shop.

As some of you know I work at bestbuy in the computer section and always recommend the Asus laptops but 99% of the time the customer has no idea about the brand.

Asus is a great company and their laptops are great value and top notch quality.

They need some advertising imo to get there name out there.
 
theflyingpig

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Did you know that if you take out the 'u' in Asus, it spells Ass, and if you replace the first 's' it spells Anus? Ass and Anus. That should tell you something about their products. Everyone knows this.
 
rudeguy

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Asus is designed for geeks and needs to stay that way. Let the others buy Acer or Mac.
 
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ASUS is great for the price, typically hard to get anything good quality on their lower end products. The F series is their nicest, but they underpower it compared to what is done on the higher end Dells and Lenovos. Also, their notebook support went to shit once they released their EEE line. One week, I called to have my A8Jp repaired (hinge issue) and my call was quickly answered by an American. I get the item back, but they didn't repair the lid release properly, so it had to go back again - exactly the same week later, the SAME phone number was routed overseas to someone in Asia. He said they shut down the support office in the US since ASUS anticipated a higher volume due to the release of the EEE.
 
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darkswordsman17

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Rudeguy said:
Asus is designed for geeks and needs to stay that way. Let the others buy Acer or Mac.
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I would actually consider a Mac to be as much for geeks as Asus. Just because they make enthusiast parts doesn't make the brand geeky. Asus used to be big in OEM for other brands (weren't they Apple's pick for a while? I think that's Foxconn now). I believe they (Asus) might have spun that division off into its own company now. I think Asus is just aiming for the niche market now anyways, so they are where they want to be. I like Asus, but don't find them to be anything special for the most part. They do have a model here and there that stands out, but those tend to be more expensive and short lived in being worth it (Ion netbook that was like $800 for instance).
 
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darkswordsman17

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zerocool84 said:
A real geek wouldn't pay 2x premium for outdated tech.
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Yeah, because you can get lithium polymer batteries in other laptops that don't end up more expensive (actually what laptops with comparable power have anywhere close to the battery life, let alone in a comparable package?). And sorry, but since Asus' bread and butter is the Eee, your argument goes completely flat. Yay, we need yet another slightly revised shitty Atom based netbook. I'm not even an Apple fan, but by all means, explain all this outdated tech, you know the same stuff that all the other companies are currently using too. The only three things that come to mind is i7 (which will likely show up here in about a month), Blu-Ray and RGB-LED based display (of which, only Dell offers it as an option on the Studio 16 which has many shortcoming compared to a 15 or 17 inch Macbook Pro). You could argue you can't buy as good of graphics chips, which I completely agree, although I have to wonder what you're doing gaming on laptops (most have pretty damn bad displays that even cheap TN based monitors best easily). I'm not even arguing that you do pay a premium, as you do (although you do get a premium laptop for the most part so its pretty fair).

Plenty of geeks use Macs. In fact, check the people who are professional geeks (tech bloggers for instance) and plenty use Macs. MacOSX is actually very good for geeks. I don't use high (or low depending on your view) level tools, but I'm not a complete noob either, which is why Windows fits me better.

But let's not turn this into yet another tired Apple argument.
 
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Exodist

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theflyingpig said:
Did you know that if you take out the 'u' in Asus, it spells Ass, and if you replace the first 's' it spells Anus? Ass and Anus. That should tell you something about their products. Everyone knows this.
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Not really .. I have been using Asus products here and there for a better part of 15 years.. They are fairly good quality and excellent choice many times for the price.
 
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