You managed to buy the asus in the end? If im honest DSR probably wouldnt work in your favour, ive never known anyone to go into a shop like pcworld and actually bench/test the performance of laptops they are setup to demo content/its specs and features and thats it, you can actually see if you like the display trackpad and keyboard is about it and thats what id expect DSR to cover you for.
Those are really the only parts of interest with the asus, if you dont like the look of it(personally think it looks smart, certainly competes with style/BQ of £500 + laptops) or feel of the keyboard (about average it doesnt excel but it could be alot worse) then send it back. I guess looking at the display could be important, found mine to be fine
tbh its never going to rival my desktop setup but its certainly one of the better displays on a laptop ive seen in a while.
Performance is quite good on the laptop apart from the HDD and the trackpad is excellent
. What dont you like about it if you dont mind me asking?