Stuck between choosing two budget student laptops. (Around 7000NOK)

[Tyuzo]

Hi all,

 

I’m in the laptop market for a good budget student laptop that will accompany me during my studies (Computer Science). I already have a top of the line desktop computer, but need a laptop for when I’m in class.

My desktop serves as my main workspace, here I run the heaviest workloads for school, while my laptop will serve as my workspace for taking notes and running/compiling light programs/loads.

 

 

So far I’m stuck on two laptops:

 

The Acer Swift 3 (Ryzen 3 4300U, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD) - https://www.elkjop.no/product/data/barbar-pc/windows-barbar-pc/177238/acer-swift-3-14-barbar-pc-solv

 

&

 

Asus Vivobook 14" (Ryzen 5 4500U, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD) - https://www.power.no/data-og-tilbehoer/pc/baerbar-pc/asus-vivobook-r438ia-eb543t-14-baerbar-pc/p-1078044/

 

The second option is on sale for around $200 less than it’s original $800 pricepoint. I’m leaning more towards that one, but from the very few reviews I have seen for it - the reviews are very conflicting, some noting the terrible display on it.

The first option is well-reviewed, but it also has some comments on the display, noting on how dim it is.

 

So which one should I choose?

[Avocheeseado]

So your schools are open in Norway? (*silently cries*)

Anyway, from what I could see they were the same price. I would 100% go for the 2nd one as it has more storage (as 256GB will probably not be enough) and a better CPU.

Here in the UK, the 2nd option has good reviews so I would go for that.

 

[-rascal-]

The second laptop by FAR.

 

The 1st one is an Acer laptop too...and 6995.

The 2nd one is an ASUS assembled one, with higher spec, and cheaper at 6499.

 

IMO, for school and CompSci programming, either the Ryzen 4300U or 4500U would more than enough.

The 256 GB SSD is DEFINTELY going to be too small, though.

 

My brother went through his entire CompSci / Software Engineering degree with an ASUS laptop running a i5-3337U and a dinky GeForce 740M graphics.

Only thing he swapped out was the slow spinning HDD for a SSD.

[Tyuzo]

6 hours ago, Avocheeseado said:

So your schools are open in Norway? (*silently cries*)

Anyway, from what I could see they were the same price. I would 100% go for the 2nd one as it has more storage (as 256GB will probably not be enough) and a better CPU.

Here in the UK, the 2nd option has good reviews so I would go for that.

 

 

6 hours ago, -rascal- said:

The second laptop by FAR.

 

The 1st one is an Acer laptop too...and 6995.

The 2nd one is an ASUS assembled one, with higher spec, and cheaper at 6499.

 

IMO, for school and CompSci programming, either the Ryzen 4300U or 4500U would more than enough.

The 256 GB SSD is DEFINTELY going to be too small, though.

 

My brother went through his entire CompSci / Software Engineering degree with an ASUS laptop running a i5-3337U and a dinky GeForce 740M graphics.

Only thing he swapped out was the slow spinning HDD for a SSD.

 

 

Thank you both for the input! I will go for the second one then :)