Dilemma on purchasing laptop. Suggestion?

try to get at least 8gb ram as 4gb is pretty low if you do online marketing tasks

i5 (2.6 ghz, 4 cores) - you telling me that can't handle SEO tools?! i think it runs them just fine but when you run many processes at once you do get ocasional freezes. you even get them on i7. Happens especially if you have some bad behaving app that goes into some kind of crazy loop. Point is don't run seo tools 24/7 on your laptop. just buy a $50/mo dedicated server (dual core) or a $80-100 8-core and let it run 24/7. At $100/mo it takes you like 4 years to spend the $5000 budget you have and you do it slowly and keep your laptop responsive and happy. Plus a dedicated server will likely have much better internet connectivity and speed. There are hosts that have 8core Xeon w. 8GB RAM for like $80/mo.

haha bro as you know in Singapore, PC show IT show always got good deals, just do your research a week before should be fine. Hardwarezone would be a better place to find out more, not saying bhw is bad or anything just that u know hwz this kind of thing number one.

Recently bought my second HP laptop pretty good plus can also use for gaming.

The Aftershock i dont really think its that good for its price cause my friend has it, entices more of the gaming crowd i guess. But not that value for money.

From what i have read it seems you need a good processor and bigger ram those are your main concerns
SEO tools shouldn't be a prob, unless internet sucks (starhub)....

Also can recommend dam good internet, better then the big 3. For seo ,gaming ,torrenting all.

anyways good luck

one thing to take note if you buying Dell notebook is that they comes with Win 8 which sucks, at least for Aftershock you get a Win 7 which is much more stable.

I hate dell, every single dell I have owned was junk, even the one I got my niece failed.

They put a ID chip in the motherboard so that it only works with their chargers, once that chip fails and from what I read, they all do eventually, your laptop is junk.

currently I have two dells, one will not charge or even recognize the adapter, and will run off of battery power only.
and the other one wont charge the battery but will run off the adapter and since it can not recognize the battery, it dumbed down the CPU or w/e and runs at less then half power, and no way to bypass that, its some sort of fail safe dell puts into the ID chip to prevent the battery from over charging and exploding.
I read they used to have serious problems with that.

The only way to fix them is to buy a new motherboard, because the ID chip is embedded into the motherboard,
which costs more then I even paid for the laptops.

will never buy a dell again.

Asus all the way.

go for hp or lenovo, i have found them best in my experience. A corei5 would be great. Try a sleek book. they look great