Hello I will be going off to college in a month or so (bio premed major with possible business minor)and have been struggling to decide on a laptop...
I have narrowed it down to the 2012 zen book prime with an i5 ib processor 4gb of ram and 128gb ssd which is 799 on new egg with a fhd screen and 5-7 hr battery
Or
The new macbook air 2013 with a i5 hw processor 8 GB ram and a 128 GB SD but no fhd screen but 13 hrs battery for around 1200 all in
I don't really care about the battery life a whole lot but the screen quality is a big deal for me. However coming from no laptop to a laptop I probably wouldn't notice the difference in screen quality if they are both decent. Also after trying to research the differences I have found that the air lags behind in processing but is better in graphics. I have heard about problems with the track pad on the Asus are they a huge deal? Also I am currently using vista on a family IBM think pad so either os will be a large learning process ( win8 and osx).
I guess my main question is is the macbook air with has well $300 (after ms office purchase) better than the zen book prime... Are the possible problems with the zen book $300 dollars worth of game changer
I apologize if I didn't format it correctly I tried to model it off other threads also both notebooks would be 13 inches.
Thank you for any help anyone may offer.
I have narrowed it down to the 2012 zen book prime with an i5 ib processor 4gb of ram and 128gb ssd which is 799 on new egg with a fhd screen and 5-7 hr battery
Or
The new macbook air 2013 with a i5 hw processor 8 GB ram and a 128 GB SD but no fhd screen but 13 hrs battery for around 1200 all in
I don't really care about the battery life a whole lot but the screen quality is a big deal for me. However coming from no laptop to a laptop I probably wouldn't notice the difference in screen quality if they are both decent. Also after trying to research the differences I have found that the air lags behind in processing but is better in graphics. I have heard about problems with the track pad on the Asus are they a huge deal? Also I am currently using vista on a family IBM think pad so either os will be a large learning process ( win8 and osx).
I guess my main question is is the macbook air with has well $300 (after ms office purchase) better than the zen book prime... Are the possible problems with the zen book $300 dollars worth of game changer
I apologize if I didn't format it correctly I tried to model it off other threads also both notebooks would be 13 inches.
Thank you for any help anyone may offer.