Which Laptop Should I buy?

[TevashSzat]

I'm still looking at laptops to buy (I'm pretty sure I'll buy it pretty soon). Right now I am stuck between 2:

ASUS G50Vt-X1: $1,249.99

Product Weight: 7.3 lbs.
Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo Mobile 2.26GHz
Display Type: WXGA widescreen display with 1366 x 768 resolution (15.6")
System Memory (RAM): 4GB
Hard Drive: 320GB (7200 RPM)
Graphic Card: 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS
1 Year Warranty

or

ASUS G50VT - A1: $1589.83

Weight: 6.5lbs
Processor: -Intel® T9400 45nm "Montevina" Core™2 Duo 2.53GHz w/6MB L2 On-die cache - 1066MHz FSB 35 watt
Display Type: 15.4" WSXGA+ "Glare Type" Super Clear Ultra Bright Glossy Screen (1680x1050)
Graphic Card: nVidia GeForce 9800M GS 512MB PCI-Express DDR3 DX10
System Memory (RAM): 4GB
Hard Drive: 2x 250GB (7200 RPM)
2 Year Internation Warranty 1 Year Accidental Damage Warranty

So basically, for $339.83, I get a processor upgrade from

Screen Resolution: 1366x768 (16:9 ratio) to 1680x1050 (16:10 ratio)
Processor: 2.26GHz to 2.53GHz
Hard Drive: 320 GB to 500 GB (2 x 250)
Warranty: 1 Year more "normal warranty" to 2 Years and 1 Year Accidental Damage
Weight: 15.6" and 7.3 lbs to 15.4" and 6.5 lbs

So.....which one should I buy? I'm at an impasse......

Quick question, too, is the change from 1366x768 to 1680x1050 pretty significant? Also, since 16:9 is a rarer resolution, does it have less game support than the more standard 16:10 ratio?

[Fragony]

Always pick the one with the best battery. A doomsday-device is fun but if it only lasts you 1 or 2 hours.........

[TevashSzat]

Well, they have the same battery and I am pretty sure that the battery life is almost identical

It seems as if both have a battery life under moderate nongaming situations at about 2 hours, ~20 minutes or so and about 40 minutes under heavy gaming

[Fragony]

It seems as if both have a battery life under moderate nongaming situations at about 2 hours, ~20 minutes or so and about 40 minutes under heavy gaming

Then they are useless as a laptop why drag 2 hours around. Laptops aren't good gaming machines if they would be you could probably bake an egg on them.

[ICantSpellDawg]

Way too expensive for what you're getting.

[TevashSzat]

Way too expensive for what you're getting.

Actually, this is about as cheap as you can get for 15 inchers with this type of power. Those 2 are priced pretty competetively even compared to 17 inchers

[pevergreen]

I would go for the latter.

Im running 16:10 and most modern games have the option for that. Even 800x600 (Diablo II Expansion) looks great on it.