Lenovo vs Asus

[Martin_J]

I want to replace my old laptop and my options are between Lenovos and Asus. I have been told that the quality is better from asus. I want to know what would be the better choice between the to in regards with performance, battery life, build quality and how long they will last when comparing them to equivalents of each other.

The specs I am looking at is between an i5 and i7 and between 8 and 16 Gb ram with reasonable graphics with a budget of around $900

[genexis_x]

Depends on model. Where are you from? Usage? Requirements? (display size, weight etc)

[Martin_J]

I am from South Africa, I am planning to do light bioinformatics work on it such as sequence analysis and so on. I am not that worried about the size of the laptop but a 15' could work.

I am looking vivobooks 15X542UN or S15 models on the Asus side, and Ideapad V310 or ideapad 320 for the Lenovo.

The site I am looking from by buying is Evetech and the price range is R10000-13000 (around $800-950)

[genexis_x]

The models above are mediocre. Could you give me all 8250U laptops that are in your budget? (All brands)

[Martin_J]

This is a basic list of what is available, they have these in various configurations of memory, ram, ssd's, and processors, I'll add a link to the site if you want to see a bit more, but for someone like me with basically 0 experience in selecting computers its hard to differentiate between what is good and not.

 

ASUS VivoBook X542UN i7-8550U 12GBram Geforce MX150 4GB GDDR5

ASUS F541UA i7 7500U 16GB ram 256GB SSD

Lenovo ideapad 320 i7-8550U 20GB ram Radeon 530 4GB

Lenovo ideapad 520 i7-8550U 12GB ram geforce MX150 4GB

Dell Inspiron 3576 i5-8250U 12GB ram 256 GB SSD Radeon 520 2GB

 

The link to the site https://www.evetech.co.za/laptops-between-R12000-and-R20000.aspx

the max that i am willing to go is R 13200

[genexis_x]

Looks like Ideapad 520 is the best option among all options above, however the build quality is just barely passable, it has mediocre battery life and OKish cooling.

[Martin_J]

Thank you for the advice