Buy ASUS X53E-XR2 15.6" LED Notebook 2GHz Intel Pentium B940 Dual-Core

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I admit I had never heard of the ASUS Brand when shopping around for a laptop. I did some research and basically didn't find any bad reviews....especially on this particular model. So I went for it and I'm glad I did. It was a Christmas gift for a family member who basically just wanted something to surf the web with and read emails, watch movies etc... So basically this notebook is overkill for what it will be used for. Anyways,the initial start up was a bit of a pain since it prompts you to back up the OS ( Win 7 premium ) ...which took a couple of hours and 4 DVD-R discs....because it does not include the OS disc....so be sure you have those blanc dvd's handy. So.. Ok we did that and then ...wow..this is a really nice computer! Screen is crystal clear and graphics look pretty much HD. Some people do not like the shiny glass ( it's not that bad ) but we do not find it bothersome at all. This computer is super quiet, no joke...you will hear yourself breathing but not a mutter from this beauty. OK, after a couple of days we were faced with Microsoft updates and plenty of them which includes the service pack 1 which took a while. This is not out of the ordinary on any new laptop, notebook, desktop etc...Basically your machine just needs to catch up to Microsoft since it sat in a box for a bit. We uninstalled the trial version of the anitivirus software and downloaded Microsoft Security Essentials...which we have running on our other XP computers. Only thing about MSE is that it would not install correctly in IE8 so we had to download the new IE9...no biggie. There really isn't much bloatware on this system at all...well, the one we bought didn't anyways. So far so good...it's only been a few days but we are happy. We have not done much with any of the installed software so I cannot comment on that. This computer replaced a 10 year old laptop that barely had any life left in it...sooooo, of course anything is better than that !

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