Asus VS HP for daughter for Xmas?

[cagoulet]

Hello,
We're trying to decide between an HP Pavilion dv6-6110us 15.6" Laptop and an ASUS K53E-bbr4. Both are 15.6"; the HP has an AMD Quad-Core A6-3400M Accelerated Processor (2.3GHz) with 4GB installed memory and a 640GB hard drive. The ASUS has an Intel Core i5 Processor with 4GB memory and a 500GB hard drive. The ASUS is $450; the HP is usually $649, but I can get it for $400. Which one is better?

 

[Guest]

I'd take ASUS any day over HP.

 

[ssddx]

hp bought compaq. both are crap in my mind.

my mother has the asus i5 model with the brown shiny exterior sold about a year ago. i think it was $500 then so maybe the same thing as the one you are looking at. it has done well so far.

i own the asus i7 model with the brown rippled scratch resistant exterior and real aluminum interior sold at microcenter. i paid about $650. sure it only has a x768 tn display (man i wish it was 1080p and ips) but its quite a beastly little laptop.

so yeah....ASUS for sure. the aluminim interior model with the rippled exterior if its in budget.

 

[Pyree]

For games- HP

For general computing- ASUS