Lenovo or ASUS? Trying to figure out which laptop to go with.

Which company has a better reputation (in quality, privacy, pricing…), or are they both bad?

EDIT: Please see https://lemmy.world/post/39088746, I have come the the conclusion that both Lenovo and ASUS are extremely terrible, anyone who sees this post should go straight to framework laptop

  • Nollij@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    15·
    1 day ago

    Don’t just consider the brand. You have to consider the line/model.

    Lenovo’s consumer lines (Ideapad, Legion, and others) are all absolute garbage, and you shouldn’t consider them for even a second. But their enterprise line (Thinkpad) is generally very, very good. The main problem is that they’re expensive.

    Asus is strictly consumer-grade. They do not have an enterprise line. Their build quality is among the best you can find in consumer-grade, but enterprise-grade is always higher quality than consumer-grade.

    I would never leave an OEM load on it, so privacy isn’t much of a concern for me. I suspect they’re both pretty bad in this regard.

    • Holeheadou92984@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      Why is Legion garbage? Youtube says a lot nice things about it. I’m eyeing legion 7 pro, is there an alternative at ASUS?

      • Nollij@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        11·
        1 day ago

        Much like the consumer lines from other brands, it’s a lot of cost-cutting. Plastic everything, hinges that break prematurely, limited power filtering, that sort of thing.

        One that frequently pops up (although I’m not familiar with that particular model) is poor cooling. Heat kills many gaming laptops, either directly or indirectly. That can mean needing more fans/bigger vents, being unable to clean them, or liquid metal thermal paste that leaks and shorts out.

      • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 day ago

        I have an older Legion, 10th gen i7, 2060, 144hz display, and it’s a perfectly solid machine.

        Never given me any issues except its Linux support is kind of so-so.

        I would say though that there are other devices out there that are much lighter. This laptop is a chonky boy.

    • Venat0r@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      Get a refurbished thinkpad, should still last a lot longer than a brand new consumer line one.

        • Nollij@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          7·
          1 day ago

          Thinkpads are enterprise machines, so they aren’t really designed for gaming. But there’s a lot of overlap with things like graphics rendering, so they do have some options.

          The T series is the standard corporate line (usually T14) for the average office worker. These sometimes have a dGPU available. You’d probably want something in the P line, but those are much more expensive.

        • Venat0r@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 hours ago

          Nah, its still a laptop, for gaming you need a desktop 😅

          (j/k) idk i just generally don’t bother trying to play games on laptops since I have a fast desktop for that 😅

  • Mugita Sokio@lemmy.todayEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    You might want to consider gaming on Linux. For that, neither might be a good idea, unless you want to play older games on an older ThinkPad (which a lot of Linux users like to use… a lot). If you want recommendations for Linux-specialized companies, I’d take a look at System76.

    • Holeheadou92984@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      I’ve already started saving money for a Framework laptop, so I plan to buy one within a year. I’ve heard a bit about System76—how does it compare to Framework? Is the quality better?

      • Mugita Sokio@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        10 hours ago

        I think with Framework, you have the AMD ST and/or Intel ME, which you can’t disable. Since System76 has Intel CPUs almost exclusively, they’re Corebooted and have ME disabled.

  • snoons@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    It took almost a year and a half to get a defective Lenovo monitor replaced. I’ve heard that ASUS has terrible quality control with their motherboards (via Gamers Nexus), not sure if that translates to their other products, but it probably does.

    Acer customer service is great though, the company I use now after all the stress Lenovo gave me…