Help picking between laptop

[x1222]

I'm not too familiar with laptop hardware. I'm going to computer engineering next semester, so it's mainly for reading books and school work. I do all my gaming on my desktop.

I've come down to 2 laptops around my price range of $500-600
Which one do you think is the better speed and quality? Any other suggestions would be welcomed too. Thanks.


ASUS X53E-XR1

HP G6

 

[munkle]

Of those 2 I would get the asus.

 

[zCypher]

Second vote for the Asus.

 

[chazdraves]

You've all caught my curiousity. I've had very good luck with ASUS, but you'd really take an i3 with an integrated Intel GPU over a quad-core AMD with a dedicated Radeon and 2GB more RAM? Anyone willing to expound on the reasoning?

As for the original question (if the OP is still watching), I've had very good luck with ASUS if you're leaning that way, but I've never had a bad experience with hp either. For myself, I always look for the dedicated GPU, which would tip the favor to hp. Hopefully someone will come along here and prove me wrong on this one.

Just my $.02
- Chaz

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Why not this?

 

[corkyg]

Why not this?

Because, that was not OP's question.

 

[Fardringle]

Chadraves, while the HP could potentially be a better gaming laptop, the OP specifically said all gaming will be done on his desktop and this laptop is just for reading books and school work. The Asus will get dramatically better battery life with the i3 CPU and integrated video. For school work, more battery is definitely better since you can't always plug in during class.

 

[chazdraves]

There yah have it. That's solid logic that I had overlooked. Thanks for the input!

- Chaz

 

[Rookie]

I have a G71G-A2 and will never NEVER buy ASUS again. Double typing issues, graphics corruption, failing CPU fans, failing GPU fans and that's the issues I remember.

I bought it 3 months before Windows 7 came out... and it won't run it successfully. It's not worth the hassle IMHO...