Laptop Advice Needed Urgently

[Oh_Mutants]

Well as my old Laptop is slow as hell and frequently hangs on any program even slighly demanding, I decided to finally invest in a new one. ?350 was my limit really, as it's not for gaming... more Vids, Web browsing etc.

I ordered this one earlier (paid a little extra on top of budget as I thought, and I know very little really, that the specs were quite decent for the price)

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/237739

However I'm now freaking out that I could've got a better machine for my money, in particular this..

http://www.comet.co.uk/p/Laptops/buy-ACER-ASPIRE-5742-I3-Laptop/688410

Educated opinions please, as it's not too late for me to cancel the Ebuyer Asus purchase, and ?380 is A LOT of money for me

[kernow]

The acer will be faster, but I've never been a fan of their build quality, however I'd probably plump for it just because of the much better CPU.

[speedlolita]

I'd go for the Asus because Acer have horrible software, horrible build quality and trackpads should be central to the laptop imo.

I'd go for a Thinkpad myself though, ahooo.

[moonwhistle]

I have a very similar acer to that one and I think it's a great machine. The build quality is on the light side but not too bad. The only issue I have with it is the **** mouse buttons but than can be got around with a usb mouse. Not a bad buy at all I'd say.

[kernow]

Can't complain for the money, everyone should use an external mouse with laptops always! I'd always buy an hp personally because I like their styling and most of them are very understated looking.

I've worked in an acer laptop repair centre before and I can tell you it wasn't fun at all. They are indeed very plasticky.

To be honest it's not a great deal better and the probably share a fair few components so the Asus would be fine also for what you stated its usage is going to be.

The Asus will definitely have a higher build quality.

[Oh_Mutants]

Hmmm interesting... if there's really not a great difference in performance then I may just stick with the Asus, build quality is always important with something that's inevitably going to get bumped about a bit

[speedlolita]

I'd always buy an hp personally because I like their styling and most of them are very understated looking.

Thinkpad.

"omg that's so ugly"

"good"

[eastyy]

someone mentioned in one of my questions threads about a new chipset or something coming in january

[speedlolita]

Dude don't worry about it, new tech is released weekly. You could wait forever if you wanted.

[abigsmurf]

There's a new chipset out but it'll probably take a while to roll out to the low end laptops. Only been announced for the upper mid to high end laptops at the moment.

[Oh_Mutants]

Thanks for your help guys, in the end I cancelled and plumped for this instead...

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dells...c=&oc=N00n5051

Hopefully I made a wiser choice than the Acer or Asus, will soon find out

[Baseley09]

Link doesn't seem to work.

IMO tho HP or Dell will be a wiser choice than Asus or Acer.

[Oh_Mutants]

Fixed, i think