i recently bought a lenovo with similar spects to the asus k53e-b1 (which was discontinued) and i love it

2.3 ghz (with turbo boost up to 2.9), 6 gb ram (i'm planning to max out to 8 eventually), and a core i5 processor. on my old laptop (amd turion x2, 2.0 ghz, 4 gb ram) camming with the encoder on streamate took all of my cpu and caused overheating, even with an external cooling pad. on this one, it takes maybe 15-25%, no overheating.
smurfette - i'd recommend getting something with an i5, anything i5 or i7 should have turbo boost (up to 2.9 or 3.0 ghz) for when you're running programs that take up more processing speed.
if i could afford it, i would definitely have dropped $1000 for one of the i7 laptops, though. if you can afford to pay that much, i'd say go for it!

and if the asus comps within my price range hadn't been discontinued, i'd have gone for an asus instead of a lenovo.
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