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I will be a freshman in college next semester and am trying to decide which laptop to buy. I was looking at the Dell 15V Inspiron but i've heard bad things about Dell... I need an Intel Core i5 processor or equal, I would like a windows 8 and touchscreen, and I would like it to have a DVD drive. Is Asus good? Also been looking at that. Help?
 
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Dell doesn't make a laptop .... the rebrand someone else's as does just about every brand you have heard of. Asus has some fine machines as long as you don't upgrade the base GFX and CPU options

The vast majority of laptops on the market (94% in 2011) are manufactured by a small handful of Taiwan-based Original Design Manufacturers (ODM), although their production bases are located mostly in mainland China. Major relationships include:

Quanta sells to (among others) HP, Lenovo, Apple, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, Sony, Fujitsu and NEC
Compal sells to (among others) Acer, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo and HP/Compaq
Wistron (former manufacturing & design division of Acer) sells to Dell, Acer, Lenovo and HP
Inventec sells to...
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Dell doesn't make a laptop .... the rebrand someone else's as does just about every brand you have heard of. Asus has some fine machines as long as you don't upgrade the base GFX and CPU options

The vast majority of laptops on the market (94% in 2011) are manufactured by a small handful of Taiwan-based Original Design Manufacturers (ODM), although their production bases are located mostly in mainland China. Major relationships include:

Quanta sells to (among others) HP, Lenovo, Apple, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, Sony, Fujitsu and NEC
Compal sells to (among others) Acer, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo and HP/Compaq
Wistron (former manufacturing & design division of Acer) sells to Dell, Acer, Lenovo and HP
Inventec sells to Toshiba, HP and Lenovo
Pegatron sells to Asus, Toshiba, Apple, Dell and Acer
Foxconn sells to Asus, Dell, HP and Apple
Flextronics (former Arima Computer Corporation notebook division) sells to HP
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I use strictly Clevo laptops and have each one custom built to my user's needs.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/91510-clevo-guide-v2-0-faq-reseller-info.html

CLEVO is a large Taiwanese computer company specializing in laptops. While the Clevo brand name is perhaps not widely known, their products are re-branded and sold by known boutique brand OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers)… notably Sager, VoodooPC, Falcon Northwest, Eurocom, etc. They are also considered (by whoever knows about notebooks) to design and manufacturer the best of the best notebooks in terms of superior build quality and innovative designs.
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They haven't had a touchscreen tho in quite a few years. Generally only see those on light duty units.
 
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