Particularly their laptops. I have narrowed a new laptop choice down to an ASUS ROG GL552VW or a Dell Inspiron 7000. Both are gaming laptops that have pretty decent specs.
I am leaning towards the ASUS.
I have owned several Asus laptops since they joined the laptop market and they have treated me and my wife very well. I have found that you can get a well-equipped machine for around $700-$800 and add a couple upgrades to make them screamers for less than $1,000. My last Asus (before I bought the Surface Pro) was a $700 Asus that came with a very slow hard drive and low RAM -- I threw another $200 at an SSD drive and doubled the RAM and that thing was amazing. Later, I replaced the Blu-Ray drive with a special adapter and a second SSD drive. I put the Blu-Ray drive in an external enclosure and still use it to this day on the rare event it is needed for something on my Surface.
Before that, I had a 17" Asus ROG laptop. It was huge, but it was fully-equipped and could handle anything. The most impressive part of it was that I could be doing some really graphics-intense stuff or playing a high-end game (or both) and you couldn't hear the fan even though it was going full blast.
My wife's current laptop is an Asus much like the $700 model above, except a much newer model. I made the same SSD and RAM upgrades and it's a great computer as well, running Windows 10.
Fit and finish has always been good, they look good and I can't remember having any technical issues. The upgrade from hard drive to SSD is insanely noticeable and SSDs are much cheaper these days, too.
I would trust ASUS over Dell any day. Dell has unfortunately suffered a steep decline in the quality of their systems over the last several years, particularly their laptops. I believe ASUS also has a pretty good reputation for pc's and parts.
Edit: Wendell beat me to it, listen to him!
PoorPDOP, post: 375324, member: 8412 wrote: I would trust ASUS over Dell any day. Dell has unfortunately suffered a steep decline in the quality of their systems over the last several years, particularly their laptops. I believe ASUS also has a pretty good reputation for pc's and parts.
Edit: Wendell beat me to it, listen to him!
I got a Dell laptop in 2004 and it lasted about 8 years but alot of the reviews on here of Dell seem to be unfavorable.
Asus makes the best motherboards. When they got into building whole computers, they did it right. I'd by an Asus over a equivalent Dell any day.
I've heard Asus is the best PC out there....but I don't know
For a long time MSI was at the top and their stuff is still crunching data on my XP computers.
My techie tells me that Asus has now become the leader of the pack with today's technology.....:gammon:
