Is 128GB hard drive and 4GB RAM enough?

That's definitely not a bad laptop, it has both an ssd for a fast boot up and a hdd for storage.
The only problem I see is the 4gb ram, which might not even be a problem depending on your usage habits. If you generally have many programs and tabs open at once though, you may be best off with 6gb.

I've never had a 6GB RAM and I've always managed just fine so I think I'll be alright wit the 4GB. Looks like the Asus could be a good buy then - although I don't really know much about Asus as a brand. The Toshiba Satellite is nice but my latest laptop was a Toshiba Satellite and I fancy a change!

I know, and all that is why it's important to me to buy from a decent shop like JL and not PC World where it's more effort to use your guarantee successfully than it would be to work for a month and buy a new laptop. I've had a laptop from PC World, it went wrong, I suffered. Now I'm happy to spend a bit more for good customer service... but I do want a good laptop as well.

However, I am intrigued to know why the Samsung is the price it is if you, and others, are so adamant that it's overpriced. Surely people wouldn't buy it (and JL wouldn't sell it) if it didn't have some features to make it worth the money?

Being the proud owner of an Asus laptop I can tell you that it came loaded with so much useless crapware that I nearly cried when I first received it. After an hour or so spent uninstalling it though, it has served me well since. (although this was about 2 years ago, so they might have stopped shipping their laptops with so much rubbish)

I have no clue why it's so expensive. I can't see anything in the spec sheet that makes me think "Yes, that makes it worth £1100". It has a piss poor processor, a tiny SSD drive, no graphics card, and only 2 USB ports. It's over priced because you could have a really solid laptop for that price that could provide you with many years of fault free service BUT be far more powerful and generally a better spec.

I don't know why JL and Samsung price it at that. Probably some idiot in their marketing department thought "Yes, this is worth £1100!" but didn't actually pass it by their boss. If I was the head of Marketing at Samsung I would laugh at him for all eternity.

As for Asus, they're a good brand. I'm typing this message on an Asus, as a matter of fact .



I got an Asus 12 months ago and it still came with all the bloatware. First thing I did was plug it in to the wall. Second thing I did was plug in my USB stick with Windows on it, change the BIOS to boot from it, and format it. Dell is bad for that as well.

I do it with all my new PC/laptop buys now. It's just nice knowing there's no crap slowing it down somewhere.

What do you all think about an Intel Core i5 processor, bearing in mind I want this laptop for 3 years?

That bad boy has a solid state drive
SSD drives are expensive and you can expect a lot less memory for what you'd with a regular hdd drive for the same price, but they're a lot faster, a lot more durable, results in a longer battery life, and makes close to no noise, oh and they're lighter.

Basically SSD's are the future, but for the time being they will be a little pricey.....

there are a tonne of comparisons online, check them out, there are significant differences in performance....

Any processor will be outdated after 3 years, although an i5 will still be alright to use as long as you don't start gaming/video editing/etc.

You've got to be careful though, as you'd be better off with an ivybridge (newer) i5 processor than a sandybridge (older) one.

The i5s have something called "turboboost" technology, which essentially overclocks (makes them faster) on demand. This means that even if in the future you run a more demanding application, the processor will still be able to handle it (until it overheats )

The Asus and the Toshiba you were talking about were both ivybridge, whilst the samsung was sandybridge

Thanks. I went for the Asus in the end

I'm looking at buying the Samsung NP900X3C - I know it's expensive, don't judge me.

I really know very little about computers - memory in particular - but I know enough to notice that the memory on this laptop seems quite small, seeing as there are other laptops half the price with over twice as much memory. Since I will be using this laptop for at least the next 3 years (it has a 3 year warranty) and I use it for a good 8 hours every day at university, I want to check that I'm not going to run out of memory.

The specifications in terms of memory are as follows:
Hard drive - 128 GB (solid state)
RAM - 4GB.

I mostly save documents and photos on my laptop. I watch a lot of videos online but I rarely download them - I presume just watching doesn't take up my memory. The documents are normally pretty large - I'm studying for a law degree! And I upload an average of 30 photos each month.

For this purpose, do you think that the memory will be enough?

I ended up returning the Asus - I didn't like the clunky keyboard. I am now typing from my Samsung Series 9 laptop which cost me a huge amount of money but I love it and, sorry to disappoint, I don't really care if the rest of TSR thinks it's a waste of money because to me, it isn't.

I ended up returning the Asus - I didn't like the clunky keyboard. I am now typing from my Samsung Series 9 laptop which cost me a huge amount of money but I love it and, sorry to disappoint, I don't really care if the rest of TSR thinks it's a waste of money because to me, it isn't.

i hate apple, but a macbook pro would be a better investment imo

the 128GB SSD is probably why that laptop seems overpriced. Newer SSDs are much cheaper: You can get a 256GB Kingston V200 for 99.99 now and its about five times quicker than a normal 7200rpm (so you computer starts up in 10-20 seconds as opposed to one or two minutes). Just find a computer literate friend to swap them and reinstall windows.