Are Asus lap tops reliable ? It seems Asus is a very cheap lap top for all you can get at that low cost, but are they reliable enough to use them home for internet and enternaining?
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We have 8g model for a few weeks now. My wife is a flight attendant and needed as small as possible laptop to go on line from all over the US. It works great and is definitely reliable with linux. We did not install XP and I suspect XP may be a bit slow with only 800mhz processor. It comes with Openoffice which is compatible with MS Office but not the same. Reliability is definitely there.
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Thanks for your reply. I think I'll spend the extra $ for the larger hard drive (and better warrenty even though Asus had the best reliability rating of most other laptops so probably won't need it). I am replacing my ancient Toshiba Satellite and think the Asus is a better value.
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Acer Aspire S7 is the most unreliable laptop I have ever owned. I use it for routine work, mostly email and searching, and it is now back at Acer for the second time, which means I have no use of my computer for 10 days each time. I wanted a different method of repair, but this is their only choice. I wanted to return it and get my money back, which is against company policy. I would not recommend any buy an Acer Aspire S7.
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Yes, absolutely. Awesome computer.Also please read the reviews, it's a great laptop.
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Very stable and good for the money. I play games through steam. I do my school work through oracle. Does regular Microsoft office fine. It's a little heavy and big. The screen isn't high resolution. And it's not fast fast but gets the job done.400 bucks or just get a desktop for like 900 with dual monitors and be fully satisfied.
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That's right. I bought mine from Amazon in february and so far I haven't had any problems with it. I was worried since I live in Venezuela and the laptop might break down. I'm writing this review with my Asus. It's refurbished but runs and looks like new.Thank God.
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I'm not sure if there are reliability issues with the laptop I bought or not yet. It seems to be doing very well, I've had it for about 4 months now. Sometimes my touch pad is a bit too sensitive, or not sensitive. Like I'll be typing and it'll move, ty cursor to a crazy point, or I'll try to scroll down a page but the touch pad won't register what I'm trying to do. Other than that I haven't had any problems!
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Netbooks are good for basic web surfing or typing, but not for games. I have an Asus 1000He for about 3 months now. I tried many games on it. Most of them run very slowly or don't start at all. I think it can handle games before 2000, but that's about it. You should consider a bigger laptop with a discrete graphic.
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The computer is now dated, so don't expect to have all the same features as the latest model, but if ya just want a big screen to watch dvd's and a decent experience on the web, it's good :) as for productivity, the apps on it are decent but ya can't update it, which leads to a dated experience, but still enjoyable. So if your looking for a cheap but decent experience it's good, if you want a "work horse" of a computer for productivity, then this is not it. Hope i helped a bit :)
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The Asus would be my choice. I've hadToshiba laptops and they have been much lower quality on my experience.
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Any laptop will be just find. Ecxept the apple ones. (This is ones my opinion because I does not like thare brand at all) It will depend one which one and what kind of laptop are you looking for. But yeah. I have and Asus republic of gaming and it does the job quite good. :) P.s. I recommend a good high pc or laptop that has the capability to support this kind of program with a good sound card system.
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My satellite crashes so many times that now I can blink right when it crashes. I've had this laptop for two years and they've been interesting. It's unbelievably fragile and I had to baby it to keep it in good shape. Right now, I have to get it repaired, again, for a processor failure. In my opinion, it would be better to get either an Acer, Asus, or a different model of Toshiba because they are more reliable and are at least not entirely made of plastic.
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Why go through the bother? The price-point of this Acer is so low, it wouldn't make much financial sense to try building your own server. When you add the cost of the case, motherboard, RAM, hard drive, network card, and then the cost of the Home Server operating system (which you have to bother yourself with to install on a headless device), what would really be gaining? Far easier, IMO, to just pull the trigger on either this Acer or something else similar (HP has a low-cost server, too, though it's got less features than the Acer, which is why I went with Acer).
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This is good computer for light computing. Facebook games will probably be fine. I have found this is the best value for a good computer.
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Good luck finding one. When you do buy it regardless of price. Asus stopped producing them quite a while ago.
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So far it has been a great laptop, I preferred Windows 7 and it was configured with this version. I had a HP laptop and this one seems solid, besides the HP motherboard died after about a year and a key broke. It's fast, I'm not a gamer so if this is your main hobby I have no idea what it will do.
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Yes - Probably one of the best laptops I have seen in a while. Samsung knows how to build things. Very light!!