ASUS or macbook?

I want to get myself a small light laptop, right now I am looking at the ASUS U3 Series U3S-A1W, right now it is $1400 in newegg. But I found a up to 41% off refurbished macs sale in dealstudio. Just can't decide which should be a better choice?

Specs of the ASUS? And of the refurbed macs you are looking at?

And you can get a brand new penryn based macbook for under $1400 which is what I would do.

i like lenovos most, BUT it all depends on the stats.

Personally i'd prefer an asus over a mac, simply because i don't like Apple, nor their software. Asus also has an excellent warranty.

ASUS U3 Series U3S-A1W

You get more bang for the buck from a mac though.

The $1300 version of the macbook gives you a 160gb hdd as well, 2gb of ram compared to 1.5, A 2.4Ghz (Im pretty sure its a T8300) intel core 2 duo vs the ASUS' 2.2Ghz t7500. It does run integrated vs an 8400gs, but I have an 8400gs in my desktop right now, and its no better than integrated.. You still can't game on it.

I mean heck you can buy a macbook, and bootcamp it, run Mac OS X and vista (or xp) for the same price as the ASUS.

If you can give up a little performance and don't mind upgrading the ram yourself you can go to the $1100 version, but 2gb of ram from newegg for $50 (mac approved, they have a whole different section) or heck even 4gb for not much more. Have a slightly slower chip clock speed wise, but its a new version of the chip. And get off a few hundred dollars cheaper. You also get a 120gb vs 160gb hdd which is also easily replaceable.

WOAH!!!!!!!

Hold on a minute there skippy!!

Almost missed this thread. lucky for you I did not

IF you are going to get a $1400 laptop forget a frickin overpriced mac(used?!?) You got to be kidding me.

Look at something more along the lines of this.--->Laptop worth $1400

It has a T9300-2.5GHz-6MB Cache on a 800FSB(Mac ain't running on that
320GB HDD
Nvidia 9500MGS graphics
3GB of ram
Bluetooth/Wireless N
and a pretty cool finger print reader

and that was the first laptop I found at Newegg. There are probably even better one on there for $1400.

Macs are cute, but just don't cut it compared to other laptops at that price range.

They are very comparable to other laptops in the price range.

And they start at $1100 brand new brian.

On top of that you can get $100-$150 as a student no problem and over the summer they offer a lot of great incentives. They aren't overpriced.

but it is just not as good as that link I gave. Not everybody is a student...
I just don't see how you can say it is even really comparable.

Yet the other laptop suggested was even more subpar?

And the hardware is very comparable.. and it runs an operating system that won't crap out on you in a month.

I also don't like that fact that those laptops are running 1.5 and 3gb of ram.. it's just such an odd number, and gets rid of any chance of dual channel.


And you have to remember, hardware isn't the only thing to look at in a laptop. You also have size and weight. The macbook is smaller and smaller laptops are notoriously more expensive. It's also right around 5 lbs and very portable.


The asus you suggest is nearly 6 lbs, now the one drumzy suggested is about 4lbs which is rather light.

However i noticed, that 512mb of the ram is onboard... that means very limited upgradability, and onboard ram is just gross....