I've been after a good value £500ish laptop for a while and found this today. I bought my otherhalf a Medion a little while ago and although plastic and cheap it was far better than I expected for the price and we are both very happy with it. Although their laptops are loaded with bloat ware that takes a bit of time to clean up so just a heads up there.
Hope some of you find this helpful - Happy Bargain hunting
All comments (21)
benjammin316
14 Oct 15#1
Decent! Heat
m1keyp1key to benjammin316
14 Oct 15#10
Must be full hd then.
xela333
14 Oct 15#2
Agreed, nice, balanced spec laptop. Not a gaming laptop but can easily play most on low settings at 1080p
Ruffuz
14 Oct 15#3
nice find
ublewit
14 Oct 151#4
Read the comment on the site about the wireless adapter, also no HDMI socket. Not sure how important either of those are to whoever is thinking of buying but worth being aware anyway I think?
I had a 17" Medion laptop for years, great machine, would happily buy another.
MoneyTrain81 to ublewit
14 Oct 15#9
The long description says it has a hdmi output though. But then not in the spec list. Maybe worth checking with them?
ptwiby
14 Oct 15#5
I'm sure the picture shows a HDMI out but don't think it's listed?
TheSuperchimp to ptwiby
14 Oct 15#6
Yes I "think" it does have HDMI (guess I will find out when it arrives) because Medion seem to use only a few cases, girlfriends Laptop has HDMI and the layout looked the same as the pictures for this one. I can clarify when it arrives, same for the WLAN, though one of my USB dongles would fix that easily enough if there is a problem.
Will that be significantly compensated by the SSHD when gaming? I'm not looking for the latest technology but something that will play the equivalent of PS3 standard games.
Thanks HUKD'ers and OP for the find
dabooj
14 Oct 15#8
I'm not sure but is there a possible 4% quidco cashback on this laptop?
titchyyyyy
14 Oct 15#11
940M is basically onboard graphics - don't be fooled by it having an Nvidia brand on it, it can play games like GTA V on the lowest possible settings at 1366 x 768 at an acceptable 50fps+ but trust me, it doesn't look very pretty.
Games like Diablo 3 and Hearthstone run fine at 60fps on decent settings at 1080p though.
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I've been after a good value £500ish laptop for a while and found this today. I bought my otherhalf a Medion a little while ago and although plastic and cheap it was far better than I expected for the price and we are both very happy with it. Although their laptops are loaded with bloat ware that takes a bit of time to clean up so just a heads up there.
SPECS:
Intel® Core™ i5-5200U processor
Windows 8.1 (OEM)
1 TB SSHD
8 GB RAM - DDR3L 1600MHz
NVIDIA® GeForce® 940M DirectX® graphics 2 GB
17.3" (Matt) 1920x1080 screen 16:9
Multi-Card Reader
x2 USB 3
x2 USB 2
1x VGA
24 Month Warranty
Hope some of you find this helpful - Happy Bargain hunting
All comments (21)
I had a 17" Medion laptop for years, great machine, would happily buy another.
Will that be significantly compensated by the SSHD when gaming? I'm not looking for the latest technology but something that will play the equivalent of PS3 standard games.
Thanks HUKD'ers and OP for the find
Games like Diablo 3 and Hearthstone run fine at 60fps on decent settings at 1080p though.