Asus X450LC or Lenovo S410P

[AswaniD]

Hi,

I am looking for mid range laptop and narrowed down my search to the following models:
Asus X450LC
Lenovo S410P

I am buying it for somebody who is a professor and does pharmacy models. So, the laptop should have fair amount of RAM and adequate graphics card and I found the above models have what I need.

Now, we want a laptop that has good durability, something that lasts 6 to 7 years without major hardware problems. There will be a lot of travelling, so the laptop should handle at least some rough handling even though it is carried in a bag personally.

Both the laptops have the same config more or less (the 250 GB extra in lenovo does not matter at all).

So, keeping in view that both are priced almost the same, with almost identical config, can you please suggest on which one should I go with. I am looking at minimum problems as we will not have enough time to circle around service centers or shipping out to service outlets.

Thank you in advance.

Aswani.

 

[Diox55]

Here's the lenovo specs:

Processor: Intel Core i5 4200-U Dual Core 1.6GHz, turbo boost up to 2.6GHz

RAM: 4GB, upgradable to 16GB with 2 RAM slots

HDD: Samsung SpinPoint M8 500GB 5400RPM

ODD: Yes, DVD-Writer

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 720M 2GB/Intel HD 4400

Display: 14.1” HD 1366×768 Resolution with 10 multi-touch points

Connectivity: Bluetooth 4.0, WiFi B/G/N 2.4GHz, 10/100mbps Ethernet

I/O: USB 3.0×2, USB 2.0×1, 1xHDMI 1.3, 1xVGA

Battery: 4-Cell 2800mAh battery, up to 5 hours battery life

OS: Windows 8 Single Language

Versus the Asus:

Color Black
Screen 14"
Operating System Windows 8 64-Bit
Memory Size 4GB DDR3
Hard Disk 750GB
Graphics Card Nvidia GT720
Video Memory 2GB DDR3 VRAM
CPU
CPU Type Intel Core i5-4200u
CPU Speed 1.6Ghz
CPU Support 3MB L3 Cache; up to 2.60 GHz
Display
Wide Screen Support Yes
Resolution 1366 x 768
Screen Size 14.0"
Graphics
GPU/VPU Nvidia GT720
Hard Drive
HDD 750GB
HDD RPM 5400rpm
HDD Interface SATA
Memory
Memory 4GB
Memory Type DDR3
Memory Slot (Total) 1
Max Memory Supported 8GB
Communications
WLAN 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN
Bluetooth Bluetooth V4.0
Ports
USB 1 x USB 3.0 / USB 2.0
HDMI 1 x HDMI
Audio Ports 1 x Line-in Jack; 1 x Headphone-out & Audio-in Combo Jack
Video Port 1 x VGA
Input Device
Keyboard Chiclet Keyboard
Optical Drive
Optical Drive Super-Multi DVD
Supplemental Drive
Webcam HD Camera
Card Reader SD/ SDHC/ SDXC
Power
AC Adapter 19 V DC, 3.42 A, 65 W
Battery 4-cell 2600 mAh 37 Whrs

 

[Diox55]

I'm leaning for the Lenovo. It supports up to 16 gigs of ram, has the more powerful card (720 with Intel graphics card), and a bigger battery.

 

[AswaniD]

Hi Sprinter, there are a couple of mismatches in the versions I saw in the store:
Lenovo: 1 TB
Asus:Nvidia 2 GB.

That makes both the laptops almost the same config (as I said before 250 GB extra space in Lenovo does not matter at all)...

I heard s410p has some USB port issues and ideapads are notorious for wifi problems.
These could potentially be deal breakers for lenovo. On the other hand, I did not hear any complaints about Asus..

What are your opinions?