Laptop Computers

Personally, i desire a laptop for college use, mainly for software coding, browsing/typing, and also gaming. Right now, my choice making will be between the acer vs asus laptop computers. All i want is a good balance between mobility and performance.

My first choice is the Asus A6K (or A6QK) :

- Colour shine of 15.4" WXGA (1280 x 800);

- 1GB DDR-333Mhz (2 X 512 Mb);

- AMD Turion 64, MT-34 1.8Ghz 1MB L2 cache;

- (Turbocache = 128Mb dedicated + 128 Mb shared);

- ATI mobility X1600 PCI Express Up to 256 MB;

- 100Gb 5400 RPM HDD;

- 8 X DVD Dual Drive + Dual Layer;

- 8 Cell (Li-Ion) Standard;

- Windows XP PRO;

- Up to 3.0 Hrs Battery Time;

- 2.85Kgs Travel Weight;

- 2 year warranty;

- 1 year battery pack warranty.

My second laptop option is the Acer Aspire 1694WLMi :

- Acer CrystalBrite 15.4" WXGA (1280 x 800);

- Pentium M 760: 2.0 GHz 2Mb L2 cache (533MHz FSB);

- ATI mobility x700 PCI Express 128 Mb;

- 100GB EIDE 4200 RPM HDD;

- 1GB DDR2-533 (2 x 512Mb);

- Windows XP Home;

- DVD+/-RW Dual Layer;

- Li-Ion Battery life: 4.5 hours;

- Weight: 2.91 Kg.;

- 1 year warranty.

Presently, the most outstanding characteristics between acer vs asus laptop computers, is that Acer has 50% longer battery life, and a definitely superior CPU*+RAM combo. Comparatively, between acer vs asus laptop computers, asus also has a faster HD and a superior video card.

The question(s) between the acer vs asus are:

What variance in performance between acer vs. asus, 4200 vs. 5400 rpm drive? - if it affect the time for load, or if it affect performance when playing a game also. Yes, there is a difference that is definate and noticable between 4200rpm drives vs 5400rpm drives.

Yes, the X700 Mobile will be better between the acer vs. asus laptop computers. The PM is really very better to the Turion ML or MT, and new Duo core are even better laptop computers.

Also between the acer vs. asus, there is no really a difference in performance between the two RAMs, it is exactly what the CPU performs best with. Between the acer vs. asus, the Turion ML with a DDR2-533 will possibly perform a little less compared to the more higher latencies a DDR2 is known for.

Presently, i think i am stuck in between two choices, the acer vs. asus. The acer on one part has some outstanding, and better specs and i also love the battery life in laptop computer. Although, the monitors are about average the last time i checked.