Decisions, decisions!

[yogi6994]

hello guys,
i need to choose a laptop for college as soon as possible, as of now i have 3 that are in my top picks:

-http/www.bestbuy.com/site/Asus+-+15.6%26%2334%3B+Laptop+-+4GB+Memory+-+500GB+Hard+Drive+-+IMR+Matte+Dark+Brown+Suit/5218223.p?id=1218626372515&skuId=5218223

-http/www.bestbuy.com/site/Lenovo+-+ThinkPad+Edge+031942U+15.6%22+LED+Notebook+-+Intel+Core+i5+i5-540M+2.53+GHz+-+Black/4845532.p?id=1218542604223&skuId=4845532

-http/shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/builder.workflow:Enter?mtm-item=%3A000001C9%3A00001752%3A

(sorry, but im not the greatest when it comes to links)

which do you all recommend?
my budget is up to $630.00 USD
Do you all have any other suggestions?
all the help is greatly appreciated!!!!

 

[smorizio]

the best two brands right now are asus and lenovo..the second one are mostly biz machine and are built real well the old thinkpads you could not kill them. the only thing i point out is read the spec real good the asus laptop had only intel gpu while the last one had a nvidia 540. the last one is going to be better for games and photo editing. the down side it going to have less battery life. the newer laptops now have both intel and nvidia or amd..while your surfing the web...you get max battery life from intel gpu chipset...start playing a game and the nvidia chipset kicks in. if your going to use it for collage look to see what the warranty is for a repair. ie do they ship a box to your house and pick the laptop up and get it back within a 5-7 day repair time or do you have to mail the laptop to a repair depo and pray that they can fix it right.