New Laptop for college

I'm going to buy a budget gaming laptop for university and I have narrowed down my choices to the next two laptops:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9366651&type=product&id=1218092150636

http://www.alienware.com/ShoppingCart/ShoppingCartItemDetails.aspx?CartId=1000

Which laptop should I buy? Thanks for the help. :)

I can't see the Alienware one but personally I wouldn't go near an Alienware anything. Duckman5

The only drawback to alienware is thats its overpriced ... ASUS is a much better deal.

Asus is the best one to go with. YOu might want to check on Asus's website but I remeber reading that they give a 2 year accidental coverage on all there laptops. Bestbuy just kind of pushes that under the carpet. Though, you might want to double check with asus on that one.

I cant see the alienware either, but it sucks anyway.

Go with the asus, and wont it be a bit heavy for college? dragging it around evrywhere.

I cant see the alienware either, but it sucks anyway.

Go with the asus, and wont it be a bit heavy for college? dragging it around evrywhere.

Amith12

Its not that heavy acutally only 7.3 pounds most laptops similar in size still weigh 5-6 lbs. the only bad thing is the battery life it says up to 2 hours so that means most likely he'll get less then that.

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I cant see the alienware either, but it sucks anyway.

Go with the asus, and wont it be a bit heavy for college? dragging it around evrywhere.

nVidiaGaMer

Its not that heavy acutally only 7.3 pounds most laptops similar in size still weigh 5-6 lbs. the only bad thing is the battery life it says up to 2 hours so that means most likely he'll get less then that.

True, but that battery life is an expected tradeoff when you put higher-powered CPUs and GPUs in a notebook. Considering the other one is alienware, I'll bet he can take the cost savings going with ASUS and buy a 2nd battery. ;)

To skelebull, we're going to need another link to that Alienware, we can't see into your shopping cart.

Thanks for the help so far. Here's the specs for the alienware (silly me and the shopping cart :P):

I'm still leaning towards ASUS for bigger drive and more of both Video and system memory.