When I was offered a job at Hyderabad, I had to leave my decent Desktop behind. I had the vostro 1510 with me which the post grad college gave me. Core 2 duo 1.8GHZ, I upgraded the ram to 4GB DDR2, 160GB HDD and a 8400GS Nvidia Graphics card.
Given todays scenario, a person like me will virtually die using that config.Yet I was using that same laptop when I shifted to Hyd till November. In October only I decided that I needed something better. There were heavy discussions between me and my fellow roomies whether to buy a laptop or a Desktop. The major point was, during shifting, transporting a desktop is tedious. Second major point, you cant watch tv shows/movies in a typical room style. So in the end it was decided that Ill buy a laptop.
After the first leg of research I had decided to buy the either the Dell XPS 15 or the Lenovo Y570. The research showed that the lenovo had a GT555. but what it also told that Dell was far superior in the long term than lenovo. I was almost getting ready to book the Dell when one of my school buddies from US pinged me.He told me that instead of buying in India, he can bring one from US. So now the plate became bigger. I now had lot of options to choose from.
My criteria was a decent desktop replacement. I do a lot of Photoshop(like working on 20-40 Camera Raw Layers and putting masks and editing stuff)I do some sound design in fruity loops with lots of VSTs loaded. and I am a hobbyist gamer.
Option 1: Alienware M14x. Was out of my budget.given the config I was looking for.
Option 2: Sager: the only crib was its not serviced in India.
Option 3: MSI: Their too was out of budget.
Option 4: the Asus G53 series. Bang on Budget.
Now I had to research between the G53 SW and SX. upon digging in forums many pros said to go for the SW because of the higher bus rate than the SX. 192bit vs 128bit.
SO Finally here it is.
This is a Bang for the Buck Beast. Ill continue the review.gotta run to the office.
Anvancy
Given todays scenario, a person like me will virtually die using that config.Yet I was using that same laptop when I shifted to Hyd till November. In October only I decided that I needed something better. There were heavy discussions between me and my fellow roomies whether to buy a laptop or a Desktop. The major point was, during shifting, transporting a desktop is tedious. Second major point, you cant watch tv shows/movies in a typical room style. So in the end it was decided that Ill buy a laptop.
After the first leg of research I had decided to buy the either the Dell XPS 15 or the Lenovo Y570. The research showed that the lenovo had a GT555. but what it also told that Dell was far superior in the long term than lenovo. I was almost getting ready to book the Dell when one of my school buddies from US pinged me.He told me that instead of buying in India, he can bring one from US. So now the plate became bigger. I now had lot of options to choose from.
My criteria was a decent desktop replacement. I do a lot of Photoshop(like working on 20-40 Camera Raw Layers and putting masks and editing stuff)I do some sound design in fruity loops with lots of VSTs loaded. and I am a hobbyist gamer.
Option 1: Alienware M14x. Was out of my budget.given the config I was looking for.
Option 2: Sager: the only crib was its not serviced in India.
Option 3: MSI: Their too was out of budget.
Option 4: the Asus G53 series. Bang on Budget.
Now I had to research between the G53 SW and SX. upon digging in forums many pros said to go for the SW because of the higher bus rate than the SX. 192bit vs 128bit.
SO Finally here it is.
This is a Bang for the Buck Beast. Ill continue the review.gotta run to the office.
Anvancy
