Help! MBA 11" / Asus ZenBook Prime 11" / Lenovo X230

[!MiKrofT]

Originally Posted by Ronin

That cheap? I thought it was $1400 to start.

Looks hella good though.

I think they start at around $1200? Didn't really look. Ultrabooks should by default have more than a 5 hour battery life.

[!MiKrofT]

Hmm after reading a lot more reviews the battery life isn't as bad as I thought. I think i'm gonna order one. $958 + tax after RFD coupon. 128gb more than enough for me and 4gb ram should be ok. I like how they cram a 14" screen into a 13.3" body.

[tdeweyn]

I'm using the Zenbook Prime at the moment, got it from $950 from futureshop without tax. The thing is though, after you set up the ultrabook for the first time your hard drive will be left with about 60-70 GB left.

I mean that's still quite a bit but will it be enough for school, programming, installing word and a bunch of other software..

So my other alternative is the Samsung 7 Series, but its heavier by 3 lbs which isn't a big deal, but it's much bulkier as well.

Any suggestions?

Samsung 7 Series is at $1,199.99 right now

[Razor Ramon HG]

Reformat the entire hard drive while getting rid of the other partitions.

I have 64GB left after installing all my main applications such as MS Office and Photoshop, my music, 15GB of games, etc.

[too_slow]

OK, that's it. I'm going to change my X1 Carbon order to include a 256gb ssd..

My old Lenovo W510 had over 50+gb of crap installed when I picked it up new.

[!MiKrofT]

That's why you reload the OS clean. I have a good 90gb free on my 128gb ssd in my current laptop.