ASUS is amazing in the beginning of its life. I have a K52F.

It's probably just my computer, but they become terrible.
I couldn't not recommend the K52F any more. It's got 72.6 GB of memory on the Hard Drive, and after about a year, it's battery life decreases more and more, but doesn't say so.

I've had mine for about 2 years now. I now get a 5 minute battery life, almost no space on the Hard Drive, and I have to clear my downloads, documents, and Hard Drive daily, to remain with an average of 2GB of space. Not to mention the FPS while playing games. On a good day, I'll get 10 FPS while playing Minecraft, Optifine Ultra, lowest settings, no bobbing, fast graphics, tiny render distance. The only game that it will get a good Frame rate on is Happy Wheels.

It also does NOT accept Forge at all. I don't know if I'm installing it wrongly, but I've tried many methods. It might be my internet connection, it could be the computer, it could be a lack of space. But mine will NOT accept Forge, under any circumstances. Every time I try I get the "Fatal Error" message.

My battery life as of now is a short 10 minutes. However, it says I've still got two hours. The charger also doesn't work after a while. The wires inside the rubber casing tear from the slightest force, causing you to either spend $60 on a new charger, or risk getting shocked by cutting it open, and re-connecting the wires. (Which I've done 3-5 times.) And yes. It does shock you... Painfully.

It says it's quiet, which is very true. However, it's prone to overheating. And I'm not sure if it's like this with all laptops, but when you close it, it shuts off. It doesn't go into sleep mode. It doesn't go into hibernation mode. It doesn't just shut the screen off. It Shuts down the entire computer. And the thing takes 30 minutes to turn on.

I'm not going to kill it on the graphics. It's got pretty good graphics. And YouTube almost never buffers. But again, I'm pretty sure it's my internet. If you look at the page, it says the touch pad has palm detection. It's a lie. The touch pad never works how you want it. You'll end up buying a mouse for it. It's always either too sensitive, or not sensitive at all. When typing something important, if your palm touches the touch pad, you'll continue typing, but it'll go back to the beginning.
For example, the sentence you want to type is, "The cat ran across the street to the other house." If your palm touches the t-pad between "The" and "Street," the sentence would be, Street to the other house. The cat ran across the"

I'm not sure if it's cheap or not, because I've never actually looked up laptops before. It's about $700. I just went to the store one day, and it was the best looking thing there. I speak for myself when I say it looks really cool. I know that there are some super-cool looking Alienware laptops, but I say it looks pretty cool. It's pretty thin and light weight.


So now that you've seen that, you know what computer not to get.

ASUS is a great brand. My friend has one, and it's one of the best computers I've used. It's just the K52F that you shouldn't get. Remember that. K-5-2-F.

I've been looking at some ASUS computers, and they seem to be the way to go. Get one with an i5 or an i7 (or a decent AMD), and you'll be good to go. They released a new UltraBook (I forget its name), and with a few upgrades it runs modern games fairly well. Although, that one is a little over a thousand dollars.

I'm not too sure about Lenovo; I've never used one of their computers.

Personally I've never bought an ASUS, but I've been told they make good computers. Acer's computers come with next to no bloatware in my experiences, and their power is good for their prices.