Which laptop would you choose?

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rayonline

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#268252 8-Mar-2020 12:50

They are for powerpoint type work and also online video streaming with meeting / conversations, they are going to use a USB video capture device with a video camera. No gaming.

Option 1
https://pp.co.nz/product/amd-notebooks/acer-swift-3-sf314-41-r3wz-14-ryzen-5-3500u-8gb-ram-512gb-ssd-us-international-pn-nxhfdsa002/AA97299/#&ref=pricespy

Option 2 Acer
https://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?itemID=470857

or this option 2 Asus
https://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?itemID=476336

They are all SSDs. Option 1 have 500GB and the other 2 is 250GB. Option one is AMD Ryzen 5 3500U and the other two are Intel 10th gen i5 10210U.

Cheers.

CokemonZ

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#2434470 8-Mar-2020 13:23

Not the second acer - it has a 768p screen which will be a very poor experience.

In the past I have recommended Asus vivobooks, and people have been happy with them. I've not actually seen either of these models.

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#2434564 8-Mar-2020 16:01

For conferencing, the one with the quietest cooling during long video cslls.

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#2436356 11-Mar-2020 14:55

Option 3, the Asus.

Cross out Option 2 from the start - minimum acceptable screen resolution these days is 1920 x 1080 (= 2MPix) The 1366 x 768 is 1MPix, so displays only half the detail that the FHD screens will.

Option 1 I went away from because you've got to consider future resale value. I know AMD Ryzen processors are market leaders currently, but the general public have zero perception of this. It's Intel's Core i family that has all the brand recognition. This Acer is also locked into that configuration - soldered RAM etc.

The Asus is configurable - swap that NVMe if you need larger, increase the RAM when you want to. Looking at the specs, I see that it also has by far the world's fastest processor - running at 1600000000 GHz. For this reason alone I would definitely buy. There's a quality difference between these two manufacturers - in my experience, Asus product is innovative,well-designed & built to last. Acer not innovative, they're followers rather than leaders, not particularly well-designed & often built with cheaper materials too.

Megabyte - so geek it megahertz

rayonline

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#2436660 12-Mar-2020 09:44

Thanks for that I went something different. After hearing some said the Vivo and Zen books had hinge problems. I went with a 8th gen Intel, 512GB SSD Asus Pro. 1080 screen also.

https://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?itemID=476420

rb99

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#2436794 12-Mar-2020 13:23

This https://www.lenovo.com/nz/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-edge/E14/p/20RA001WAU

seemed reasonable to me, so I got one.

Edit - though at the time it was 'Ships in 2 working days'.

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rayonline

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#2437027 12-Mar-2020 16:36

rb99:

This https://www.lenovo.com/nz/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-edge/E14/p/20RA001WAU

seemed reasonable to me, so I got one.

Edit - though at the time it was 'Ships in 2 working days'.

Dang, too late. It's not mine anyway. I am a Thinkpad fan thou. $200 less and a 10th gen instead, than the one they got.