need help choosing a laptop..

[MidoBan1]

hi, i wanna 13 inch thin & light laptop.
now, i found these two, and i cant decide which is better:

Dell Vostro V13:
http://www.dell.com/us/en/business/notebooks/vostro-v13/pd.aspx?refid=vostro-v13&cs=04&s=bsd

Asus UL30A:
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=8CwAK6XZ0pekc7aI

in both of em, i refer to the SU7300 cpu version. is quite hard to decide, i mean the Asus has HDMI, the Dell is a bit thinner, but still, is there anything else i should consider? Do you guys know any other laptops like those (13 inches, as thin and light an those)?

thanks!

 

[iPwn]

MidoBan, welcome to CF!
I would personally go with the ASUS, for me they have had better battery life than with Dells and it looks a lot cleaner. The only drawback to the ASUS would be that it comes equipped with Windows Vista and that's a system hog so I would try to get them to upgrade that to 7 if you could, doubtful they would do it, but if you can spare the extra money, get 7 for it to really get the performance out of it. On these, there's no specific specs, all general ones, do you have the specs that you're looking at getting?

 

[gmcrepair]

Hello there, Welcome to CF.

You may want to go with the Dell, It has a better choice of Operating Systems. ASUS has Vista and that is a real memory hogger. ( I recommend Windows 7 Home Basic/Premium for you)
It has plenty of Hard Drive space and Memory and a good graphics card. So I'd go with the Dell.
Apart from the screen size is there any other requirements?

 

[Holysky]

Hello there, Welcome to CF.

If your 13 then you may want to go with the Dell, It has a better choice of Operating Systems. ASUS has Vista and that is a real memory hogger. ( I recommend Windows 7 Home Basic/Premium for you)
It has plenty of Hard Drive space and Memory and a good graphics card. So I'd go with the Dell.
Apart from the screen size is there any other requirements?

LOL! He said he wanted a laptop that is 13 inches. I'm sorry but that was too funny

I'd personally go for the Dell, i personally like the looks and from what i hear their support is pretty decent (most of the time). Pretty much every aspect of it is better then the Asus also.

 

[gmcrepair]

Amended.

 

[MidoBan1]

well, the windows vista doesn't bother me because i already own a windows 7 copy so i can just remove the vista and install it. in both laptops i'm going for the SU7300 cpu and the 250GB. so are there any other things apart from the OS?

 

[gmcrepair]

Depends..What are you going to be using it for?

 

[Holysky]

Sometimes Asus's support can be a bit*h but so can Dell's...

 

[MidoBan1]

Depends..What are you going to be using it for?

student..

 

[gmcrepair]

Then I would say the Dell is enough, It has plenty of memory and Hard drive space. Also if you want to install a few games it has a great graphics card. I would recommend the Dell.