Fathers day Laptop present

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So I know father's day is still a month away, however, I wanna start planning on buying my dad a laptop for fathers day. He is currently using a very old mac book which was given to him as a present (second hand), but its starting to show signs of failure. The screen is buggered, its slow as hell, and things crash quite often lately. Not to mention, he really dislikes Mac OSX.

I found this laptop on wootware, it seems like a very good laptop, has all the stuff he needs, and the price isn't that bad (I think).

Here is the link:

http://www.wootware.co.za/asus-k-series-k53sj-intel-corei5-sandy-bridge-2410m-2-3ghz-notebook.html

What do you guys think? any recommendations?
 
Wow..... thats all you had to contribute? I must say thats pretty weak... You must be a terrible son for not buying your father a father's day present?
 
I'm currently using the K50IJ. It has all the same specialties, just a weaker CPU and RAM with a smaller hard drive.

I don't have any complaints about it at all. Been using mine for about 3 months now and it's gone with me back and forth from Stellenbosch to Cape Town to Pretoria and it's on me wherever I go. And the parts of the mentioned laptop is pretty good for that price as well. That along with the after sales support from Asus and a 2 year warranty. I'd say yes.
 
Shop around a bit more and keep an eye out for specials. May get similar at a better price as you have a month to look.
 
Libertas Computers said:
I'm currently using the K50IJ. It has all the same specialties, just a weaker CPU and RAM with a smaller hard drive.

I don't have any complaints about it at all. Been using mine for about 3 months now and it's gone with me back and forth from Stellenbosch to Cape Town to Pretoria and it's on me wherever I go. And the parts of the mentioned laptop is pretty good for that price as well. That along with the after sales support from Asus and a 2 year warranty. I'd say yes.
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Thank you for that useful response, unlike that other dude :)
 
Looney said:
Wow..... thats all you had to contribute? I must say thats pretty weak... You must be a terrible son for not buying your father a father's day present?
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+1000 :)
I wish my son was old enough to have a job that pays for his fathers day presents... :D

Personally I prefer Acer to asus, but that is a serious machine there. What does your dad do on the thing? My wife loves her Aspire 1410 with dual core celeron (not atom) since it's petite and easy to cart around. Your dad may be different. I am a fan of small lappies myself and would gladly put up with a smaller screen provided it does min 1024 resolution for when I'm travelling and a nice 20" with bluetooth kb/mouse for the desk.

*EDIT* Wasn't there a problem with Sandy Bridge... like some flaw?
here:
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx...d=1&model=P8P67+DELUXE&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379241,00.asp

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/sandy-bridge-sata-error-sata-3,news-34912.html

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379241,00.asp
 
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asus is really quite acceptable on price and quality and performance, as myself is also an asus fan. The k series is good, just the 0.3 mega pixel webcam not that satisfied, maybe video conferencing is not that important to your dad. I think it is acceptable. As that price, I think you can buy an i7 if you are in USA, but in south africa, that is a good price.

If you are not much into the brands. Samsung laptop and Proline laptop will be cheaper.

Just personal opinions.
 
Probably a cultural thing but to me it would feel odd buying an older man a laptop out of the blue. Assisting buying one and paying for it that is something else.

Looney said:
Wow..... thats all you had to contribute? I must say thats pretty weak... You must be a terrible son for not buying your father a father's day present?
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Nope. I bought my mom a laptop a week before mothers day. You can search for that post and you will find it.

For me your minimum specs should be 64 bit Win 7 basic, 3gb RAM, Core i3 and with those specs the laptop will easily stay up to date for a number of years. So you have a wide choice of anything from R4K up.
 
Looney said:
There's no easy way to answer that.
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well there are not many options, its either:
1. gaming
2. porn
3. more porn
4. general usage
5. even more porn
6. business usage
7. cad and design
8. lots more porn
9. research
10. did i say porn yet?
11. a combo of various of the above.

Asus are awesome laptops. Lucky dad!
 
za1 said:
well there are not many options, its either:
1. gaming
2. porn
3. more porn
4. general usage
5. even more porn
6. business usage
7. cad and design
8. lots more porn
9. research
10. did i say porn yet?
11. a combo of various of the above.

Asus are awesome laptops. Lucky dad!
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If I had to choose, #11 definately! Oh, and lots of porn! :D lol ewwww *shudders*

Yeah Asus and Dell are both awesome laptops. Thing is, I can buy a cheaper laptop and it would probably be fine for a while, but then after a while the complaints start.... "The screen is too small!", "Its so slow! it takes ages to open a program" etc etc, so rather buy a slightly more expensive laptop, with good specs, which will be perfect not only for my father, but also for the family. My dad has a habbit of complaining and bitching :D

Oh and yes, my dad is one lucky son of a gun :D but he deserves to be spoilt, after all he's been through in the last 2 years.
 
you sell 20 items and all you get is an ipod?

anyhow tell your buddy not a bad site but should remove adwords, unless business isn't great and he needs to earn a few cents from google, but ecommerce site shouldn't need outside ads to make a living.
 
So which of the laptops should I get? the Asus or Dell? they both similarly priced and similar specs. Which one would u guys recommend?
 
moer said:
+1000 :)
I wish my son was old enough to have a job that pays for his fathers day presents... :D

Personally I prefer Acer to asus, but that is a serious machine there. What does your dad do on the thing? My wife loves her Aspire 1410 with dual core celeron (not atom) since it's petite and easy to cart around. Your dad may be different. I am a fan of small lappies myself and would gladly put up with a smaller screen provided it does min 1024 resolution for when I'm travelling and a nice 20" with bluetooth kb/mouse for the desk.

*EDIT* Wasn't there a problem with Sandy Bridge... like some flaw?
here:
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx...d=1&model=P8P67+DELUXE&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379241,00.asp

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/sandy-bridge-sata-error-sata-3,news-34912.html

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2379241,00.asp
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Yes there was a flaw, but im sure it was resolved with the B3 revisions. Not sure if that applies to the laptops as well, but im assuming so.
 
Looney said:
So which of the laptops should I get? the Asus or Dell? they both similarly priced and similar specs. Which one would u guys recommend?
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hmmm for you, an Asus, for your Dad, probably a Dell - they mostly come with a 3 year warranty, your dad might like that. Which Dell you looking at?
 
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