New laptop: Please help me choose

Hi Guys
I am buying a laptop within this week. Budget is 30K.
I have short listed these two. Please help me decide

Sony Vaio for 27700
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Asus for 29200
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Let me know which one should I buy

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I would prefer one with a discrete graphics card

hd 3000 equivalent 520mx will be more power consuming is what i think..

520M is nearly same as HD3000. Its has better drivers but with more power consumption (ie lesser battery life) and Rs 3-4k extra.

What about the sony vaio model?

^^It has got very weak graphics. Go for the Asus one, Ishu mentioned.

Just concerned about reliability of Asus. My friends keep telling me to go for Vaio because it has a better brand value.

I will be using this laptop for at least 4 years. Mostly movies, office work and internet.

Is the Asus laptop good for that?

Anyone?

BTW hows this
Sony-Vaio-VPCEG25EN

Ishu Gupta said:
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What!Asus!Anything other than HP DV6/DV4 is crap.

red dragon said:
What!Asus!Anything other than HP DV6/DV4 is crap.

I see you haven't been stalking me properly, on TDF. :lol:

atin said:
Just concerned about reliability of Asus. My friends keep telling me to go for Vaio because it has a better brand value.

I will be using this laptop for at least 4 years. Mostly movies, office work and internet.

Is the Asus laptop good for that?

Anyone?

BTW hows this
Sony-Vaio-VPCEG25EN

Vaio is for sure more valuable brand than Asus. But Asus is reliable. If you're being brand specific, as per your requirements, that Vaio lappi is enough but better add 1 or 2GB RAM after you purchase.

red dragon said:
What!Asus!Anything other than HP DV6/DV4 is crap.

Ishu Gupta said:
I see you haven't been stalking me properly, on TDF.

Ye dragon ko kya ho gaya? Kyun Mr. AntiHP! :lol:

Ishu Gupta said:
I see you haven't been stalking me properly, on TDF.

Yeh!Have other things in life :wink:

@sujay,you people have opened my eys.From now on I will only buy HP laptops,bye,bye Mac!!(atleast will be getting a free oven with every lappy @half the cost of Macs/TPs and most importantly an excuse to buy a laptop almost every year)

^^

Its not that dude we're forcing you to buy a HP one

Just that we're saving HP's a**

And yeah, free oven is a seriously good offer which i earlier didn't thought of

Plus you got such good gadgets and system (ur sig), may be thats why you hate HP so much

Do not look at my sig.Even I feel guilty looking at it,burnt around 50k for the 3 iems in that list.

50k

So which one you recommend ? BTW how much you earn? :-?

If I may interject :-o

I have decided not to go with Vaio cause now three people have warned me not to buy it.

I found a toshiba with i5 proccy on flipcart. What do u guys think about this one
Toshiba X4012

2nd option is to go with the Asus one. Dont like the colour though.

dashing.sujay said:
50k

So which one you recommend ? BTW how much you earn?

Nevermind,when you are done with studies I am sure you will have even better gadgets.
@o.p Toshiba does make reliable laptops,two of my friends are using toshiba laptops for over 3 years now without a single issue.

I guess then i'll go with the Toshiba laptop.

Thanks Guys for ur inputs