Back Once Again [Slim Shady]

Hopefully that title got you to open up this thread.

Anyways, I'm back with some more questions.

I've got 3 options of laptop builds that I'm looking at. Spending around 500$. Give or take.

#1: 400$
ASUS
Graphics Processing Type: Dedicated Graphics
Model: A73S
Memory: 6GB
Operating System: Windows 7 Hard Drive Capacity: 750GB
Screen Size: 17.3" Operating System Edition: Home Premium
Processor Type: Intel Core i7 2nd Gen.
Processor Speed: 2.20GHz

#2: 619$
Intel Core i7-4510U
2.0GHz
Screen15.6"
Memory8GB DDR3L
Storage1TB
Optical DriveDVDRW
Graphics Card Intel HD Graphics 4400
Windows 8.1

#3: 479$
Intel Core i7 3rd Gen.
Type: Notebook Processor Speed: 2.40GHz / 3.40 GHz
Screen Size: 15.6" Memory: 8GB
Graphics Processing Type: Integrated/On-Board Graphics Operating System Edition: Windows 8
Hard Drive Capacity: 60 GB

 

Two more questions to ask yourself for each of these: Battery life, and weight.

I'm just going to say you may think a nice big screen is nice... but the weight to carry it is a huge trade off. Also what will you be doing with this computer? Gaming or school/business work?

 

option number 1.
the information you provided doesn't give very good detail, so I'll give you info on what I can see.

Granted, number one uses a little older hardware, and a quick search shows it uses a 610m GPU, which isn't very powerful. nonetheless...it should be a better rig than the other two.

Number 2 uses an Ultra Low Voltage CPU, as well as RAM. These are generally MUCH less powerful laptops than full-size versions. Theyre generally designed to work with less than 15 watts of thermal power to dissipate, so the power of these CPU's is generally compromised to achieve this goal. this can involve using reduced core counts, lower core clocks, less cache levels, slower memory controllers...etc. The CPU on number 1, for example, is likely a 35-40 watt chip. on the flip side, the first laptop has a 2nd gen cpu, while this one has a 4th gen...but power is still going to fall short in this one. it will show it's lack of power much sooner.

number 3, on the other hand, has barely enough information to tell me anything, but just seeing that it has only a 60 gb storage drive is enough to turn me away. Windows itself can easily use 20-30 of that with the OS itself plus recovery, page file, and general bloatware that comes with new laptops.

Like I said, there isn't much info given in your post, but from what I can see...number 1 is the best choice...even with the older hardware.