Take this from someone who for the last 3-4 days has been scouring the internet for used, manufacturer refurbished, and even imported gaming laptops at the £600-1000 range:

£699 for a laptop with those specs, particularly the GTX960M 4GB and the i7-6700HQ chipsets - simply does not exist today. This is a stupendously good price. If I were to try to find any other laptop brand new with the kind of specs this Dell Inspiron has I'd easily be in the £1000+ range. I'm so sure of this I'll accept any challenge on the matter .

The next best option I could find was a manufacturer refurbished Lenovo Y50-70 with a GTX960M 2GB and an i7-4010Q, with the same RAM, HDD, and everything else as this Dell. That was for £750 from the US (price including delivery, import and customs costs via eBay).

I hesitated due to the Lenovo Superfish rootkit drama, BIOS locking and other shenanigans Lenovo like to do, as well as the atrocious Wifi boards those models are plagued with - but boy am I glad I hesitated.

OP, I'd give you all the heat on the internet if I could.

You should change the title to £698 - using code PREMIUMSALE drops £50 off the price.
If the code doesn't work, speak with an advisor on live chat and they will sort you a quote with £50 off.

Ordered mine, get it within 2 weeks!

Just spoke to chat, asked for best price, was offered £699 immediately. Just ask!

that would be greet thank you

Just got back from holiday but i'll try and get some readings for you if you are interested?

hi brotha what reaches suched temps the cpu or graphics, pleeasd state temps of both. and also whatt is cpu temps when usingvinternet and youtube vids, please please answer, thanks

hi for browsing with multiple youtubed tabs does this machine cpu and gpu remayn cool like 50 degee and below

via live chat

I've managed to get the top spec model down to £900 via live chat,how are you guys that have it finding it ,is it worth £900 ?

Back at £750.
I posted a deal today.U31
£200 cheaper than this one but obviously terrible specifications compared to this.
Is this worth £200 more? Not sure what i want, tbh wanted a new desktop and dad wants a cheap laptop for Christmas.
If i found an amazing laptop deal, he would get my old Asus which is less than 6 months old and has i5 4210.

Bummer! What did you buy that was better?

if you were to install a SDD or add ram, what size (dimension) or type do they need to be?

I decided not to wait for delivery from Dell and ordered one off ebay, £859 for the 4k screen and 256GB SSD options. It arrived in one day, was brand new, factory sealed and had the full warranty. Other specs were also available. Seller was called ecomputers.

Laptop is very, very fast.

​I was told that delivery would be 2 months from when I ordered. I was told by a rep that it would be delivered much sooner (they didn't tell me an exact date or how long) I waited around 28 days.. Still no laptop. The order status was in preproduction. I cancelled contacted dell and told them I was going to cancel and they did it straight away. When I told them why they accepted it and that was that. I then went to another shop and bought a much better laptop and it arrived the next day.

ok guys I just spoke to customer service online chat and got it for £699 (providing student email)

just speak to them on live chat,ask for there best price

If anybody still wants to buy this ,i,ve been offered it for 704 via dell chat today

So the golden question I'm interested in: has anyone that's purchased this machine loaded linux on it yet and if so what driver issues have been encountered (if any)?

I can recommend Good Old Games (gog.com) for digital downloads of games. Not always the latest and greatest (hence the company title) but DRM free and very reasonably priced. They also do regular promotions. Not long back they bundled just about every "Dungeons & Dragons" style game worth having (some 15 titles) for well south of £20.

for people ordering this I ordered on 22nd November shipped today (1st December) don't know how long will take to arrive will update when I know more. In China at the moment.

heads up,the top spec model is now £929

And theres way more legal freebies out there for PC. Can download them, play it and delete it if you don't like it.

Oh ok, thanks for the info

Most games run through a program called Steam. You download this for free from their website. When you buy a game from Amazon, choose to buy a digital download rather than a physical disc. Amazon will email you a key code. You then enter this code in Steam, and the game will be added to your Steam library and automatically start downloading

It's a great system

Thanks for the info, Where do you download PC games from? Its not like going to the Playstation store. If you buy a PC game from Amazon.... what actually happens?

I'm new to laptops (I have PS4) and i'm wondering how do you actually play games on this as it has no cd tray? I'm very tempted

This laptop smashes those requirements

help plise :smiley:

does this laptop meet these requirements for this game?

OS: Windows 7 or higher with latest Service Pack.
Processor: Intel i3-530, 2.93Ghz / AMD Phenom II X4 940, 3.0GHz.
Memory: 4 GB RAM.
Graphics: 1024 MB video card, Pixel Shader 4.0, DirectX10 GPU.
DirectX: Version 9.0c.
Hard Drive: 8 GB available space.

Cheap 960gb ssd 2.5 everyone
http://m.ebuyer.com/665518

Yeah once you've applied the update you can delete it. It needs loads of updates, i've done the graphics and sound ones and i've been more than happy with performance. Can run GTA 5 and it barely reaches 40 degrees temp

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Thanks for reply, yes I followed those instructions and it did fix the problem, very temperamental machine the original problem with picture freeze reacurred also. When I download a driver update I then deleted the file from downloads, I think this is ok to do according to Dell support anyway or am I wrong.

Did you try this? :

1. Open the Device Manager (find it in the Control Panel, or type devmgmt.msc into the search box).
2. Expand the "Sound, video & game controllers" and right click on "Realtek High Definition Audio".
3. Select to "Update Driver Software".
4. Click on "Browse my computer for driver software".
5. Click "Let me pick from a list of drivers on my computer".
6. Put a check in the box "Show compatible hardware" if not already checked.
7. In the list of devices, click "High Definition Audio" (the native driver).
8. Click "Next".
9. On the Update Driver Warning box, click "Yes" (install the driver).
10. Restart the laptop if prompted. If not prompted, then no need to restart.
[To get back to the Realtek driver, do it again but reverse the names in steps 2 and 7.]

Ordered this laptop 28 days ago.. still hasn't been delivered Zzz...

What do people think of the screen? Compared to my old XPS 17 it's feels very poor. Very dull and quite dark, considering returning it based on that alone.

Is anyone else having audio problems with this laptop? Every so often when listening to music it starts popping and the sounds is in slow motion for 3-4 seconds before recovering.

ah its come down again, I want to wait till black friday do you think the priced will go back up to £999.00

Just spoke to Dell regarding my order.. Apparently all orders on this model have been put on hold until parts arrive... ZzZzzZzz

I got this laptop last week and I must say, it is not bad. Not sure about the graphics as I have not been playing a lot of games on it.

One thing that annoys me about it is that the "Intel graphics driver for Windows 8 has stopped working!" Very buggy, considering the fact that I am using a Windows 10 machine! I've installed the basic university software packages such as Word 2013 etc.

I can only comment on processing and RAM later when I start doing some programming :smiley:, because at the moment it is being used very lightly - i.e. not many resources used. Admittedly I am more of a desktop fan, but have had to resort to a laptop due to university commitments.

Please feel free to offer me some tips and suggestions and even hacks for this laptop. Looking to upgrade the RAM etc

When I had an issue with screen freeze that I failed to fix by reinstalling drivers I rang Dell who took remote control of my pc whilst I was on the phone and resolved problem, incase you get stuck.

​yeah that would be great thanks!

Ordered on the 21st , promised delivery by 3rd Nov via chat which appears to be a lie as I was told to ignour estimated delivery on on invoice which is 2nd Dec , as its incorrect. However 2nd dec looks a lot more realistic.

Agent (:laughing:: "when there is global shortage of screen of this size and dueto this lead time went to 30-40 days and that is why we have not taken any amount for this order"

Can anyone explain why this is now £999? I'm looking for a nice laptop but not £999,
Maybe £750 at a push

My order date was 19th and it turned up to my UK address on Monday. It went from pre production to production and shipped in a matter of days though so there might not be much more wait for you! Hopefully my family ship it on to me in Denmark today!

Matt.

Been two weeks and still haven't got my laptop :disappointed: still sat in preproduction. Hope it comes before battlefront comes out! Anyone else still waiting on their laptop? Order date 28th October. Estimated delivery date is 23rd December :/

To be honest, I'm not 100% sure if this would void the Dell warranty - the original hard drive it comes with is pretty fast too.

I only use the laptop when I'm travelling so my type of use won't be anywhere near as much as yours but for programming should be perfectly fine!
I took it on a 9 hour train journey last week and had no issues at all, battery lasted for a whole 7 hour train journey (constant use), I was then able to charge it on the first class trains for the remainder of the journey.

As I mentioned in my previous post, the touchpad feels quite 'loose' when you're clicking etc but I use a mouse so this isn't a problem for me.

I didn't go for the touch screen because from what I've read in reviews, it has a 'glare' to the screen, whereas the non-touch has anti-glare screen.

Hope this helps.

Nice :smiley:

But you would say there is no way of Dell voiding the warranty for say just upgrading these parts?

I wanted a SSD as well, and when I checked on their website, the cheeky **** have raised the price and put it under smart selection - meaning that customers would get the product a lot quicker!

Anyway, do you think the laptop will last me two years or more? I only invested about £900 as I wanted to do some intensive programming for my final year at university? How is she in terms of portability, speed, battery life and efficiency? Which one did you end up buying? The touch or just standard (non-touch)?

Extremely easy - just make sure you clone the HDD you get with the laptop first (ALL partitions) then remove 1 screw on the back of the laptop and the rest is just clips, so pull off the back panel.

You will see the HDD - just unscrew the 4 screws and replace with the SSD. Done.

I got my SSD from Amazon when it was on lightning deal - not sure where best place is atm.

I haven't as yet, I thought I'd wait for black Friday deals in the hope of a bargain but failing that I go ahead and get the Samsung evo 850 m2 sata3, this whole thread has lots of advise and tips to get you through the process

Hi

Just out of interest, did you end up upgrading your SSD on this laptop?

If so, which hard drive did you buy and was it easy to do?

Yeah, I'm not sure about this.

If you are saying there is no ribbon or seal - then it is hard to tell I guess.

I haven't received my product yet - but I really want to upgrade to the SSD. Is this easy to do, and where can I get a good cheap one?

I don't think there's a way to tell if the HDD has been replaced - if your laptop does break, just replace it back to the old HDD.

When I opened mine there were definitely no ribbons etc so not sure how they could check this?

@MattyD_UK, what did you mean by "try the rainforest". didn't quite get that bit

BTW, does anyone know if you void your warranty if you add more memory or ssd yourself?

Also, how are people finding this laptop?

Sorry I ment Amazon. I'm not sure what the deal is with hduk on promoting websites.

Anything going round similar to this deal? Gutted I missed out :disappointed:

Try the rain forest, a Samsung evo 850 m.2 120gb + an 8gb 1600 DDR3L CL11 so-dimm can be had for under £100, add another £15 and you can get the 250B version of the SSD. That's what I have ordered.

I recently ordered this machine from Dell for £849 which included the UHD touch and 8gb ram. Now they selling it for £999 for 16gb ram plus 128ssd. Feel slightly ripped off and annoyed that they are now under smart selection. I am still yet to receive it - but how are people finding it?

Where can I get a good ssd and 8gb ram for £100?

Mine just shipped today, I ordered on the 19th October.

Does anyone else get a low hissing/buzzing noise when scrolling with the track pad? Started noticing it recently

​I got £50 off just buy talking to support via Web chat. Just asked them if they had any discount codes and mentioned I was a new customer. They came back with the laptop for £700

I ordered one with 10% off using VIP discount, delivery date is now ages away 07/12/2015.

But is the laptop any good? Has anyone purchased one and is pleased with the screen or performance? as comments so far don't seem that good for a laptop that has great specs.

This is now £999. Dell chat advisor told me they increase prices as per demand.

This laptop is now on the Dell site for £999

I was looking at this laptop yesterday but clicking on the various links today they seem to be dead now and the laptop has went up in price?? or am i looking in the wrong place. shame as i was going to order it

any one would like to upgrade the ram to 16gb, I have taken mine off it since I have lots of spare ram around, so is up for sale in fsft section

plz see link for details

link to fsft

Cool thanks, did you have a 2 month estimate as well?

Hi Guys, what's dell like for delivery? I've just placed my order and my estamated date is the 23rd of December :/

No I haven't been able to test in the dell as my laptop is still to arrive. I'm assuming it's m2 sata port as people have had no luck booting or using it as storage. But the sm951 is a pain to setup as video tutorials show so I guess there is always a small probability it may boot with the right bios support. The mobo I have seems to support both 951 and nvme which was a great choice.
Anyway with the new magician if you enable rapid mode on 850 evo m2 you will get faster speeds. On my 840 evo I got 6gb/s faster than the sm951 but it's all SDRAM caching so not to put all your faith in results.
Anandtech showed rapid mode improved overall performance in Samsung ssds.

So it could be purely sata then. Did you try your sm951 nvme in the dell?

a Dell rep sent me these links to suitable cards also,
128GB SSDR, S3, 2280, Micron(MTFDDAV128MBF-1AN1ZABDA


For what it's worth.. This drive is unrecognisable in a lot of systems. Even in x99 and z170 sky lake board people are having issues.
However even if your bios or OS does not recognise it the following video shows that it still may work.
I have a m2 sata drive and will plug into a pci-e port to see if it boots. If it does then surely a PCi-e port supports both sata and pcie. However a purely sata port may not support pci-e.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No-ct8pQcIg

Just tested m2 sata in pci-e port. No boot and bios doesn't recognise.

4.8 is out with win10 support & rapid mode! You can find it here:
Your text here

estimated date 8.12.15

just bought yesterday with the discount 696.58 - thanks all for the info, might get the additional ram!

I Run magician 4.8 and I ticked show hidden files, folders and drives if that's the correct one but sadly no sign of sm951 pci-e nvme or in the bios.
So you're up And running with the 850 evo sata 3? How's it all performing compared to the original drive?

Well done . Use the magician software to optimise your boot ssd. U can benchmark both drives and soon once Samsung updates magician for win10 then u can enable rapid mode.
Samsung has just released a retail version of 950 pro for m2 which is nvme PCi-e and promised to update magician for it for win10.
Rapid mode utilises sdram caching and although it's risky for mission critical systems the ssd virtually runs like the speed of RAM. My magician benchmarks exceeded anything ssd could do on its own.

So I just cloned it using the Samsung software and removed the hard drive. It booted up fine but before inserting the hard drive back in I want to make sure it boots off the ssd and not hdd...the thing is there doesn't seem to be a boot priority in the bios tab to select ssd instead of hdd. The only option it seems right now is formatting the hard drive? Maybe create a bootable USB iso before doing so but would windows still activate if for some reason the SSD messes up one day and I have to use the USB?

EDIT: So I put the hdd back in and went to bios. It recognises both drives...SSD showing up as the first drive and HDD as second which I assume means it's booting up from the SSD. This is confirmed when I check the computer screen on desktop as it shows the SSD drive as OS but now the hard drive is not coming up at all. Is it because both drives have windows affecting it?

EDIT 2: Sorted. There's an option in control panel that's called storage spaces. You can enable hidden drives that way. I know it's a long shot but if anyone has the pci m.2 drive maybe check if you can enable it that way.

Try cloning hdd to ssd using macrium which works. Otherwise u could install Windows via usb. Then u can re-install hdd and have it as secondary with ssd primary boot device.

​Can confirm 850evo m.2 is recognised. I had it in there and it discovered it with the magician software but not as a normal drive on the 'my computer' screen. Have not implemented the boot function yet. Should I just clone the hard drive and then change bios to boot to ssd? I didn't find the option on bios when I first installed the drive but I'll most likely clone it then take the hard drive out and see if it boots up

Those are all sata3 so its only a m2 sata drive in the slot.
I would find a samsung evo 850 model this slot takes as it will be fast and with samsung magician software will be faster Ask dell if that would be compatible .

a Dell rep sent me these links to suitable cards also,
128GB SSDR, S3, 2280, Micron(MTFDDAV128MBF-1AN1ZABDA), M600



128GB SSDR, S3, 2280, Samsung(MZNLF128HCHP-000D1), CM871, LC



128GB SSDR, SATA3, 2280, HYNIX(HFS128G39MND-3510A), SC300



128GB SSDR, SATA3,Liteon(L8H-128V2G-11), 2280, V2G



128GB SSDR, S3, 2280, Sandisk(SD7SN6S-128G-1012), X300



128GB SSDR, S3, 2280, Samsung(MZNLN128HCGR-000D1), PM871

I'll try again tomorrow using the magician failing that wasn't it the Samsung 850 evo Sata achi that worked on ours?

I remember when i installed mine windows would not show it. I installed samsung magician and it picked up the nvme drive. It offered me 2 drives to select to benchmark.
However the bios should see it is connected even though OS can't. Just read on a website its a msata port but clarify that before you order sata drive. Just to clarify it the above was done on an m2 pci-ex4 port on asrock z97.

Failed to recognize, sata it is then!

That's what I would have done as sm951 only accepts a uefi install and a gpt partition not std one when u clone from a sata drive. However if you clone a gpt partition which was installed via a uefi install it should work. Boot via usb to do a uefi install. You may have to remove the hdd just in case you select wrong hdd to put OS on.

Decided to keep it! lol
Spoke to scan and they said try the 951nvme but install Windows from the usb not clone (dont know why) after bios update, if no joy they'd accept return minus delivery within 14days. So thit attempt should be conclusive given the achi failed with others, fingers crossed.

Played a game on 150 FPS for 5 hours straight - no issues at all.. Fans did start screaming a bit but cooled down very quickly.

Might buy a laptop cooling pad to defeat that issue.

I got the laptop, and I just want some advice from you guys.

I have some (what I believe are) some dead pixels on my screen. That is to say when I have a black/dark background there is a very, very tiny couple of specs of white on the screen. I know it's definitely not dust, because I've wiped it, and it's not there when the laptop is off. So is there a way to fix this without returning the item to Dell or will I have to return/exchange it.

Additionally, how is everyone else finding the laptop, this was my first new computer in about 10 years (from a PC) and tbh maybe I was expecting the world, but it's OK. I do need a new laptop, so do you think this is the best I can get for ~£700 or are there better options?

Check reviews of the inspiron 15 7558 thats an all aluminium laptop and has a good trackpad..although its keyboard flexes slightly....its not as fast but you can pick one up for 500-600 quid on dell website with 1yr warranty

Aside from the SSD ballache situation, how are those who've received the laptop finding it in everyday use?

Reviews on Dell's site are starting to suggest that the trackpad is terrible and the performance is poor considering the components used.

Sorted the SSD issue! I had to manually create all the partitions etc on macrium.. Laptop starts/shutdown in about 5 seconds!

Just had cfm on another forum from US that a sata drive works in the m2 slot which would cfm that it only supports std m2 drives not the faster PCi-e drives. That person is using a Samsung sata m2 drive. This would cfm why it would not be seen as storage as well as not recognised in bios. However dell tech on that forum has claimed sm951 works which clearly it doesn't . Oh well I will need to return my 951 when it arrives as I only bought to test anyway.

I think in real world any ssd will be better than hdd but when your doing video editing sm951 will be faster but everything else booting up will be as fast with any ssd in the m2.

To be honest I would rather buy a decent size ssd unless you need large storage. 850m2 evo is close to its 2.5 inch version. There will be a 950 pro in m2 version only ,as good as 951 but I think it will be pic-e only so not compatible if going by what we are seeing .

I have a transcend m2 sata in my m2 and it's quite fast but with the Samsung you get rapid mode which makes everything insanely fast so I would stick to evo. Unfortunately no-one has made that work on Windows 10 yet as Samsung not update drivers.

Dissapointing but understandable if they were designed that long ago. Is the 850 evo m.2 any good? I know it's standard but as an ssd for using Windows OS will it boot up faster?

its achi and installed Samsung data migration mrg, but nothing found. worried now

I think it's fair to say if ahci isn't recognised then nvme will not as well. This could be a problem with update on bios but I'm reading that someone has tried the sata 850 evo and it worked which confirms its a std m2 sata slot . Why on earth dell chose this I'm not clear but if they designed it 6-12 mths ago pic-e m2 was in its infancy.

Can you claim £100 back through easy trade up with a dell purchase? I was looking in currys today but I might order this instead

If the 951 pci-e ahci isn't recognized then what's the chance of the nvme version given that it's also pci-e, as you said the pc isn't seeing it as a storage device. My sm951 nvme ssd is delivered on Monday from scan, I'll ring to ask advice on try and return but I doubt they'd agree to it.
Is Sata 3 the only other alternative .Frustrating it is!
Three days days ago I'd never heard of an m2, it's bloody haunting me now!

Try cloning software macrium or Samsung data migration wizard from Samsung website. They should see you drive.If both can't see the drive then we have a problem as the system is unable to recognise drive even as storage which is unusual as 951 may not be always bootable but will be seen as storage if the slot is compatible .

Tried cloning the original hard drive onto an SSD - replaced old hard drive with SSD and come up with Dell SupportAssistance on boot saying hardware issue.. Something tells me we can't replace it with an SSD?

I only cloned the OS from the original drive because when I went to clone all partitions, it said insufficient storage?
ESP is 33MB
Unformatted Primary is 128MB
OS is 53GB
WINRETOOLS is 438MB
Image is 11GB

Any idea why it wouldn't allow me to clone these onto a 256GB SSD?

I can see some of those partitions are formatted as FAT32 and NTFS - would this be the issue?

Anyone know how long pre-production takes?

Does anyone know if we have to activate the 960 manually? I'm trying to run Counter-Strike: Global Offensive but only seem to be getting 30 FPS max on low settings.. I had an i3 U before this with onboard graphics and had 60 FPS on that.. This doesn't seem right.

really want to get the sm951 to work, don't fancy returning it for 950evo :disappointed:

I got the same result as shahaa
installed the Samsung MZHPV256HDGL-00000 - Samsung  which I think is the adhi version.
disk management only showing the 1tb sata hdd and I can't see any option for m2 under bios

Sorry to ask again but does anyone know how to replace the hard drive with an SSD? Is it just removing the back panel and replacing the hard drive or is it all under the keyboard etc?

Got the laptop yesterday installed Samsung sm951 but the bios or device manager don't pick up. Any one can help?

Figured the issue slightly.. When laptop isn't plugged in, I get 30FPS.. When I plug it in I get around 175FPS even though I have it set to 'Full performance' in power options which is strange!

That's
That's great news Adam and you've hit the jackpot with your research.
This info Dell support hasn't a clue about so all we need now is the sm951 installed and tested!

From this product brief the Intel 100 series chipset which this laptop has supports pic-e x4 as default.
http://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/chipsets/mainstream-chipsets/hm170-qm170-chipset-brief.html

Download brief and intro states it supports nvme drives and pci-ex4
It's disappointing for Dell not to mention M2 drive type in the manual or specs. As any consumer wanting to install drive will need to buy correct version either sata3 or pci-e(nvme or ahci). The protocol is unique and sata3 do not work in pci-e slots.

Someone in this thread, post 287, said that the dell techy told him it's "PCIe 3.0 (x4) and samsung sm951 will work fine with it".

[url=]http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/dell-inspiron-7559.782286/page-29[/url]

Sent you PM jay

That's the Bios properties.
Does it show storage controllers especially for m.2 slot. It will have sata controllers for hdd but should list different ones for m2. I going to run aida64 on my m2 ultra to see what I have .

Thanks so much. Time to hit the google! :smiley:

I will take the bottom off once i get the SSD but here is info on the one inside:
SK Hynix HMT41GS6BFR8A-PB
Module Size 8 GB (2 ranks, 8 banks)
Module Type SO-DIMM
Memory Type DDR3 SDRAM
Memory Speed DDR3-1600 (800 MHz)
Module Width 64 bit
Module Voltage 1.35 V / 1.5 V
Error Detection Method None
Refresh Rate Normal (7.8 us)
DRAM Manufacturer SK Hynix

Is this the info you need?

BIOS Properties:
Vendor Dell Inc.
Version 1.0.3
Release Date 09/23/2015
Size 8 MB
System BIOS Version 1.0
Boot Devices Floppy Disk, Hard Disk, CD-ROM
Capabilities Flash BIOS, Shadow BIOS, Selectable Boot, Network Service Boot, EDD, BBS, Smart Battery
Supported Standards DMI, ACPI, PnP, UEFI
Expansion Capabilities PCI, USB
Virtual Machine No

Appreciate the help. I actually received my laptop today. Will await for the m.2 to arrive and give it a go

That's good news. I've ordered the 1080p and the sales agent told me it wasn't IPS, so it'll be a nice bonus.

If he said the m2 slot supports pci-e then the ssd should work. The 951 comes in 2 flavours AHCI or NVHCI( known as nvme) or non volatile host controller interface. The bios supports the nvme whereas the ahci should be supported if m2 slot is pci-e enabled. Older m2 slots in z97 chipsets support the old sata std. The new Macbook pro has the pci-e m2. It would be a bit strange for dell to implement an old sata std in m2 slot when all new skylake boards have the pci-e enabled and this is a six gen cpu..
If nvme is not supported you can use the ahci version which is nearly as fast as long as the slot connects to the cpu pci lanes.

When I spoke again to cs he did quote the cpi-e but nothing about nvme, so I don't know I'm afraid, it's a gamble and its all new to me

Thanks.

Any thoughts on a good Blu-Ray/DVD drive? Last time I looked, Blu-Ray drives were very expensive and I couldn't justify the cost.

​Damn. A wasted purchase at the moment :disappointed:

wait...so will the Samsung sm951 work? I bought it yesterday during the 20% off ebay discount just for this laptop

No you need a current account . You also get free security software for your Mac and android phone. Just open an account and reg for Internet banking. Failing that AvG is not bad and is free.

Can anyone recommend an SSD drive for me to replace? Also is there a video for replacing the hard drive for this laptop?

Thanks!

Also does anyone find that their screen is quite blurry? When reading text on white background, the text is kind of blurred.

Thanks for that. I'm looking forward to getting to grips with it.

I have a Barclays credit card, but not a bank account. Will that entitle me to the anti-virus software? I am using AVG Free at the moment (which has always worked well for me).

Thanks again.

​screen is 1080p because 4k isn't for me :confused:

Mine arrived this afternoon. I won't get to play with it until this weekend.

I'd be grateful for any thoughts you may have as to what checks I should run to make sure all is working correctly, then what I should do with it first (eg install updates, create a back-up, etc.).

It's been a long time since I've had a new laptop, so I'm pretty rusty on what to do first. I don't want to launch in to using it, installing new programs, etc. and then find there is something I should have done first.

Also, assuming all is working correctly, are there any obvious hardware/memory upgrades I should be making and should I invest in an external drive (I do occasionally burn DVDs). Would a Blu-Ray drive make any sense?

Thanks in advance.

cjp64

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Alright, just to clear everything up for people I did install a Samsung SATA SSD into the M.2 slot and it has been working perfectly. Afterwards I put a call into Dell to confirm this and the person I spoke to confirmed that this laptop only supports SATA in the M.2 slot. I suppose people can get a PCIe drive and try it, but assuming the Dell rep wasn't wrong it looks like it is only SATA.

Also, the model I have with the 5400 RPM 1 TB SSHD was kind of sluggish on booting and running the OS overall. I bought a small crucial SSD, cloned the drive and swapped it out. Right now it boots up 5x faster. I know the SSHD learn your behavior and so there is a chance that the boot times and the overall OS would run quicker overtime, but even with the cache the 5400 RPM drive just seems slow and outdated. Not sure if anyone else has experienced this or not.

So, if i could go back and do it all over again (and if you can live with and i5) i would probably have waited until the Amazon model came out and bought that. It comes with an 256GB SSD and then i would have just added more storage into the M.2 slots. But, now that the system is fully running on SSD I do really enjoy this laptop. Yes, the fan is blow pretty hard when gaming, but i wear headphones so i never notice it really anyway.

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Good chap. Thanks for everyone's feedback confirming my suspicions.

If someone who has the laptop uses aida64 it will display spec including pic-e controller type.
http://alternativeto.net/software/aida64/?license=free

Pls virus check program first.

Got mine about an hour ago - in work at the moment so will try out later and give some feedback :smiley:

The person I spoke to never heard of nvme so I think I'll have to call again and hopefully get someone more knowledgable

Typey.
Did they say which type of m2 it supports sata or pci-e? As the samsung 951 is the pci-e type. Of which there are 2 versions..nvme and ahci. I have read the samsung 850 m2 works which points to a sata type...whether it can accept both as my m2 slot works on sata and pci-e in a desktop.

Just to let people know I got mine. It's got an IPS screen. Seems fairly solid. My delivery was a day late after the eta on the tracking. I'm not sure if it's for all orders but if you have BPO tracking on the track trace, your tracking is with UK mail and to track through their website your consignment number is 399990(dell order no) if that helps anyone. :smiley:

​it's good so far but I haven't used it much. It's very quiet when idle. One problem I have with the screen being ips is the glow or bleed it's really bad at times so I'm deciding if it's bad enough to replace. Also my tracking didn't update on the day of delivery but UK mail track worked and I got a text saying the time frame.

I rang Dell quoting service code of laptop and it will accept m.2 ssd internaly

Strange that the manual and spec state otherwise.

I'd be interested in this too please but I'm specifically interested in the noise when stressed or under load i.e. playing a game rather than idle/web-browsing.

Also I've just been told by a sales droid on live chat that this machine does NOT have an M.2 interface internally.

Since there is such variability in the quality of sales advice, can new owners confirm that it does have M.2 support please? Cheers.

Another week until its ready or until its dispatched?

To those guys who have received their new laptops I am envious,enjoy that new machine buzz.I hope it is a great piece of kit as the specs would suggest.I would really appreciate your views on the noise levels of the fans and how frequently they kick in.Thanks .

My tracking says out for delivery and is about 70 miles away from home address but didn't get a text/email..
Not sure if Dell didn't pass on my mobile number/email?

Mine has just been delivered :sunglasses:

Got a text from Dell with the time slot earlier this morning.

My laptop says it is in pre production.

Well I asked about accidental damage cover and they told me that I can buy some after I receive the laptop. Sounds a bit weird but here's the chat log:

"Me: I have already purchased a laptop but have not received it yet. Is it still possible to buy accidental damage insurance?
Agent: Yes you can purchase it once you recieve the Laptop as we need the machine Service Tag
Me: so how soon do I need to do that? As soon as I receive it?
Agent: yes"

Anyone recommend a good insurance company for the laptop? asked Dell if I could add the cover but they said can't add cover after point of sale.

I asked the sales rep about the ETA date (23/10) and he told me that I will receive an email the day before it's due to be delivered. He also told me to call the delivery company as they might know...

In lutterworth as off 4 pm, lets hope it gets delivered tomorrow

Probably won't get mine until Monday then.. I live in Wales!

I got exactly the same update, plan committed at that exact same time. apparently it means it's in england

22/10/15 13:04 PLAN COMMITTED NOTE.

My ETA is also tomorrow..

https://www.dell.com/support/orders/uk/en/ukdhs1

Enter your order number.

On the next page, where it says "Click here" under package tracking, enter your customer number. you get taken to a different page

How are you finding your ETA? Live chat?

what sort of performance can I expect to see playing games such as Dayz/Arma3/GTAV ?

ETA CHANGED TO 23rd OCTOBER. :neutral_face: WHY YOU TROLL ME

I ordered last Thursday and got told the same, smh :/

Nehcrux, can you do a quick favour if you can and are able to please?
Click start, type dxdiag and click on the little program that shows with yellow X I'm blue circle, it's the small utility built in to Windows to verify the DirectX version and displays all the major hardware of the machine, reckon you can print screen these pages on the different tabs of dxdiag and upload them here please?

Sales reps are saying 21 day delivery does anyone know if this is realistic?

If you try to order now they say that it will take 21 days to deliver does anyone know if that is realistic?

From a previous post Adam1 (post 114) gave good advice regarding upgrade hardware

Cheers! That's the one I was eyeing up. £50 odd on Amazon, so not too expensive.

Ordered last Wednesday and delivered today.

Someone recommend me an M.2 120GB SSD and another 8GB of DDR3?

[quote=Nehcrux]Ordered last Wednesday and delivered today.
Someone recommend me an M.2 120GB SSD and another 8GB of DDR3?[/q
Have you tried it out yet

Just got an email from DPD, mine is out for delivery atm. I'm in NI if that makes a difference

Is 4K display in this model non IPS??

Dell rep says its scheduled for November 3rd but may appear before this. I'm hoping this week like you if they ship in bulk! xD

Mine also says China - I've been told to ignore this - this tracking will just show delays with your delivery and not your actual tracking process.

Mine is apparently 100% confirmed deliver on or before 26th October.. Will keep you posted :smiley:

Ok, who'll be first to post "it's delivered" ! Lol I eagerly await and of course in true HUKD fashion we expect a photo of course

specs v price seem great,but,and its a BIG but,I swore I would never buy another dell after the studio 1558.fan/overheating problems .It would seem lots of inspirons have these issues too.Its a design fault and dell don't want to know.Very tempted though as these specs tick all my boxes,will wait for reviews.

Spoke to sales and got offered the same reduced price. Also confirmed it's not an IPS screen, it's active matrix.

Still considering the ZooStorm instead, with double the RAM, proper SSD storage space, an optical drive and an IPS screen.

How much better is this to that £817 macbook pro. Bear jn mind I've been a mac user for donkeys years and I'm quite anxious about switching back to Windows

Spoke to sales earlier today and was offered the price of £698. Delivery wasn't until 11th November though.

I know the raw power isn't really comparable, but the extra RAM and SSD are appealing. They might both me overkill for me in all honesty as I'm unlilkely to game on them.

Was it established if the Dell one has an IPS panel?

The zoom storm doesn't even come close. Six gen cpu vs 4th gen and mobo supporting m2.

From the advert
"Up to 250 hours battery life." What else are they lying about xD

Trying to decide between one of these or a similarly price and specced Zoostorm G4 from Argos

The Zoostorm has a less capable but still excellent processor with 16GB of RAM, IPS FHD screen and a 120GB SSD on top of the 1TB hard drive - http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4453282.htm - I'd get 10% off the list price too.

Does anyone know if Zoostorm builds are any good?

hi guys
do you need to overclock to get the 3.5ghz speed? and how is that process done? also does doing the risk cpu burn out and invalidate warranty?

thanks

Please, tell later if it is quiet or not when browsing/youtube

Anytime I get a phone call i'm anxious it's here now haha

Spoke to live chat again this morning and they said it will arrive at some point this week - not sure why but each sales rep is telling me something different :smiley:

"REMOVED I can see that tis has shipped out of Dell on 16th you cna expect the Delivery tommorow." Whaatttt?!!?

EDIT: guys I really wouldn't bother checking the tracking of your order.. It's so inaccurate.. Mine was marked as dispatched today - live chat told me it was dispatched on 16th October..

Dose anyone recommend this laptop for a uni student. I just want to use it for office and possibly visual studio and solid works, or is this overkill.

I was considering getting this or ASUS X555LA 15.6" (from PC World).

Mine shipped as well. New ETA 26th Oct. Hopefully before then. Mine's probably being shipped with yours!

Order/laptop has been shipped!!

EDIT: currently in China..

I just ordered one of these and got the discount still by chatting to a sales advisor. £699 inc. delivery.

Thanks, that's made it clearer, I was looking at the 512gb m.2 and they're still above £200 but the boot time is lightning, cheers

Install m2. Install macrium reflect free. Clone hdd to ssd. Set ssd to boot in bios. Leave hdd as secondary drive for space as boot drive will only be 128gb. Try to get nvme version ssd not ahci as that is faster with protocol for ssd not old ahci developed for hdd.

Email the sales rep that gave you the quote etc - the rep that put mine forward said I could email him after 4 working days and he could give me an accurate dispatch/delivery date.

EDIT: Will let you know my dispatch/delivery date as soon as I get an email from sales rep although I did order this laptop was it was on 16 heat.

Ordered yesterday - explained via Dell online chat I was on holiday during the deal and if they would honour the £50 off I would put an order through. Laptop expected 30th Oct. Thanks for posting!

But this m.2 won't be replacing the original drive but added to the system

Just mirror the hard drive and if you have to return it for any reason, put the old hard drive back in and they will never know :wink:

Can I ask advice plz.
I'll buy the m.2 ssd as you suggested then when I receive laptop create a back up of the op system saved to 32gb usb. Then install ssd reboot bios to usb and save to new drive, am I on the right track? Will I invalidate my Dell guarantee, thanks

I will buy it - Samsung SM951 128GB M.2 PCI-e ACHI SSD
MZHPV128HDGM-00000 - 128GB Samsung SM951, M.2 (22x80) PCIe 3.0 (x4) AHCI SSD, MLC NAND, Read 2000MB/s, Write 600MB/s, 90k/70k IOPS £67.

That's exactly my plan. Just make sure the m2 is the Samsung sm951 or the new 950 pro m2 2280 size. You will boot in secs. I have it in my z97 board with ultra m2. Just hope the m2 supports PCi-ex4. I wonder if it supports nvme m2 drives .. Which improve on latency ...and random writes.
Being hm170 chipset I would assume nvme is supported by default.

Service manual shows 2 ram slots. So 16 or 32gb would be max.
Looks perfect for me ;]
So I will order that low configuration model and bay on ebay/shop 8GB RAM, M.2 Drive, and one SSD dive ;]
Don't need touch-screen and 4k display which works very bad in laptops size 15.6
Next promo-code and this laptop can be my Christmas gift ;]

I have read this is all metal.but the base.....but it looks plastic to me...anyone got one yet?

Service manual shows 2 ram slots. So 16 or 32gb would be max. I can't see why dell would make 2 configs and increase costs to make if they can just make 2 dimm slots.

This model Inspiron 15, 7559
For HOME users have Windows 10 Home 64-bit English
For BUSINESS have Windows 10 PRO 64-bit English
Check difference:

Would this be the correct RAM stick to purchase for this laptop to upgrade to 16GB?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/HyperX-Impact-SODIMM-Notebook-Memory/dp/B00KQCOTCM

Anyone check out the new Dell XPS 15 with the InfinityEdge display?
I know it costs nearly double for the same internals (except HDD) but does anyone think the compact size and premium finish warrants the extra cost?

http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/xps-15-9550-laptop/pd?ref=PD_OC

Just ordered this for £674.10. More of a discount than this post offers. Would recommend you talk to sales rep and request the VIP discount. Sign ups to the VIP discounts aren't available right now, but if you go through the sales rep, you can still get this price. You'll either need to use a student educational email address like I did, or order it though your 'employee' discount (This time last year I bought a laptop by saying I worked at Apple. Didn't ask me any follow up questions, the company just needs to be part of the program). Either option will get you 10% off (£674.10). Having said this, the sales chat rep will need to take payment and confirm delivery details over the phone which is annoying, but it's legit. For anyone wondering if you can get them to use the code as well as the VIP discount, you can't - I tried.

Hope this helps someone. Thanks for posting OP

Just ordered one a minute ago with £50 discount. I just said I missed the discount and would purchase now if they gave me the discount.

Thanks for posting.

Also thinking about adding an SSD to the laptop.. Should I just clone the drive onto the SSD?

My last inspiron 1501 is about 9yr old so this is going to be a nice upgrade, hopefully. Glad to know I can simply add an ssd

Thanks for the info! Did you buy this one

[/quote]Does the ssd replace the original or can it be added too ? Thanks[/quote]
Model base - Inspiron 15, 7559 with different configuration, so this is the same model/design just some changes with hardware. I think you can bay M.2 driva and ADD to motherboard.
You don't need replace 1TB 5400 rpm Hybrid Hard Drive.

Also you can bay M.2 driva and replace 1TBHHD with any other 2.5 SSD

I would like to bay this standard Inspiron 15 7559 and upgrade with 128MB M.2 and replace 1TB to SSD.
Unfortunately there is only Single Channel DDR3L for me this is enough.
I don't play with game need laptop for work and I like good hardware so don't want just cheep laptop.

Before I found this dell Inspiron I almost 'click' bay MSI GS60 6QE(Ghost Pro)-063UK. ;]

Finally got through, order processed at £698, I was told delivery on or before 24th of October :smiley:

P.S.: Forgot to add that the laptop does come with an M.2 type 2280 slot :smiley:

I've been trying to contact live chat for the past hour and a bit with no success... :disappointed:

And plus RAM prices are always fluctuating so as this is a Windows PC by Dell and unlike MacBooks which have solderd memory you can certainly upgrade the memory with another 8GB stick down the line to make 16 .

To be honest I reckon 16GB is overkill For normal usage on a laptop, 8GB is still plenty RAM this day of age , if have hundreds of tabs open especially if it's chrome and your got multiples other heavy programs open at same time then yeah 16 will help but still 8GB is definitely plenty. I have 8GB in my gaming desktop and even with heavy multitasking have a couple of GB free space

Does the ssd replace the original or can it be added too ? Thanks

Just purchased the laptop. Contacted live chat and said I tried ordering yesterday but the order kept failing and didn't go through. They sent me the quote at £700 and I purchased it. Delivery for 3rd Nov hopefully it goes well!

http://www.dell.com/uk/p/inspiron-15-7559-laptop/pd?oc=cn95701&model_id=inspiron-15-7559-laptop

1TB 5400 rpm Hybrid Hard Drive + 8GB Embedded Flash Cache
You can bay Samsung SM951 128GB M.2 PCI-e ACHI SSD for £67.98 Inc VAT
4k display it's not good for laptop read any review about it.

So this cheep model with M.2 SSD without 4K display can be similar to high model just without 16 GB RAM :disappointed:
Do you really need 16GB?
Discount expired but Dell usually will have next discount soon us always have.

How Did you get the £20 Refund?

Is there a spare drive where I can add an SSD to or do I have to replace the HDD

told me roughly 3 november

Dam this deal really did blow up!

good to see people getting prices as low as £690-700 on the base model. don't forget the GET DEAL link will not take you to the deal, copy the link in description. share the deal and let people know that they may need to have a quick chat session with the sales rep online to negotiate a cheaper price ( seems to be working for a lot of you!)

I personally think this model line with 15" having 1080p is sweet spot, the GPU will be best at this resolution, the higher tier prices give you 4K screens and SATA SSD's but tbh its just going to tax the gpu and battery life end of the day. and don't even think its a 60Hz panel at 4K.

Last few laptops have been Dell. Absolutely brilliant. Decent build quality given the price and really easy to get spares for if you break something.
More than happy to upgrade to another Dell so will probably go for this at some point.

Cheers OP.

Ordered via sales rep, always a bit weary of them, giving details and all

Just ordered via online chat. They gave me the reduction after I mentioned that I unsuccessfully tried to order last night.

I've just bought it through livechat for £696.58 :smile:
Thanks OP

I've had a couple of these top of the range Inspirons and they have both been nothing but trouble in all honesty. Both bought on very similar deals from Dell. They do this same kind of deal at this time of year, every year.

While they have been really great when they are working, they have broken and needed repair several times now. And the software support, at least, from Dell is atrocious on the models I had. Google something like 'Inspiron problems' and you'll get an idea of issues, that rarely even get resolved.

One of them, the Inspiron 7520 that I had and bought with discount codes for something like £580, cannot be upgraded past Windows 8 and keep the switchable graphics function, because there is no working driver available, so the graphics card is useless if you upgrade.
The thermal paste was pretty much missing, causing overheating and it had to go back for that sorting. 3 times over 1.5 years, it went into a reboot cycle, needing re-install of windows.
After 13 months the Dell battery totally died and held no charge at all.
It too was offered with something like a 3 week delivery date, which kept being extended and ended up nearly 2 months.
The build quality on that one was poor, it creaked and groaned when you picked it up, and a lot of brittle plastics were used.

The other one had broadly similar problems.

But one excellent thing that came out of ownership of the 7520 in particular is, that they hold their value very well. I sold it months ago for £420 on ebay even noting the duff battery. ( But including a small Evo SSD)

I had a Dell Latitude laptop about a decade ago too that had a lot of problems, so I think that's me done with Dell. Great laptops when they are working though, in my experience.

Shame laptop does not do 4K in more than 30fps.

Looking at some youtube video, the 7000 series is pretty simple. Flip back cover and replace the HDD.

Since it has a 2.5" HDD the weight won't change much at all when replacing to SSD, only desktop 3.5" HDDs are bulky with some weight on it.

Just purchased for that price following DKB07 advice. UNEXPIRE THIS!

Just tell them other chat advisors are giving £50 off on livechat and they'll honor the deal.

Failing that you could get 5% off student discount if you're a student which isn't too bad.

Thanks for your reply

1. I was asking specifically for this laptop if it was difficult but I'm ordering it and I'll have a look
2. Asked the guy and there was 5% but it's obviously not as good as £50 off so wen't with the latter
3. I need it basically as a desktop replacement, so will probably do gaming so thanks. I meant more in terms of portability and battery life, can I replace the HDD with SSD and make it significantly lighter too or will the weight not change much?

Thanks again.

1 Pretty easy usually, depends on how Dell made this laptop (not sure), I know Lenovo you had to pull out keyboard etc very frustrating but some are simply lifting bottom lid and replacing the HDD.

2 No

3 Overkill, even a laptop probably half this price would be overkill for "university" (browsing/office etc) unless you're doing photo/video editing/gaming

Me too please

Banner is still active on the site with an expiry of yesterday, spoke with live chat this morning to ask if the discount is extended and was offered the same machine for £700.32 with a delivery on 3 Nov 15.

Few questions:

How easy is it to upgrade to an SSD for someone who has no experience doing it/making PCs?
Is there a student discount?
Do you think this is a decent laptop for university?

G751 1080p IPS screen is considered to by very nice indeed. There is a BR drive too which is v useful for my purposes. 4 USB 3.0 on G751 also, and it should stay very cool and whisper quiet. GFX has only 2GB mem.
There is supposed to be a know issue with 2 LHS USB 3.0 ports, connection / speed / USB power - don't know about a reliable fix for this. It appears that one of the two rear SATA bays might not be SATA III compatible, only SATA II.
Says two yr warranty with asus, but some aren't keen on saveonlaptops.
Was a bit cheaper at 930 with 12GB ram recently.

Hmm, what games could this play and on what settings roughly?

More powerful than the Dell but also more expensive and more brick like.

I bought a Dell recently and had to return it the customer service is appalling

Your link doesn't work but this is still a better deal, RAM is easily upgraded in the future and 8GB is plenty for most still.

Can't find this laptop, anyone have a direct link?

Thanks

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How is this comparing to http://www.dell.com/uk/p/inspiron-15-7548-laptop/pd?oc=cn75814&model_id=inspiron-15-7548-laptop

This one has 5th gen CPU, i7-5500U, 16gb ram (2x more) and AMD Radeon R7 M270 4GB DDR3.

Prices of both laptops and other specs are very similar. What would you guys about these differences ? Which one is the better choice to go with ?

Thanks

Not bad. Definitely something you'd be happy with. I have a friend with the last gen version, he got it from USA on ebay. If only for VAT we'd get some really amazing prices.

Great price - hot added - especially considering the battery life for a i7 quad core. Shame they haven't put in dual drives (SSD+HDD) like the MSI's but still great value.

A question: why is the old 4720HQ still faster than the 6700HQ? There doesnt seem to be much power saving (45W vs 47W) so not in the same league as the U range of processors... Is it really much of an upgrade?

Been trying to choose a similar laptop for a while what do people think of this:
http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/G751JL-T7028H-ASUS-G751JL-T7028H_1841234.html

I know its more but you get:
17" screen
16 GB ram
128 SSD
CPU seems faster on http://www.cpubenchmark.net/
faster gfx 965m

Good deal. I also have a 960m and it handles pretty much any game I throw at it in high settings, for anyone who's worried.

Is this the same laptop that I posted for a similar price with a 4K touchscreen earlier this year?

kr00liz, follow my instructions here:

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/new-dell-inspiron-7000-series-15-laptop-i7-6700hq-quad-core-windows-10-1080p-screen-2300561?p=26203992

I just cant see it :disappointed: it offers only with i7-5500U

To check laptop GPU specks and gaming benchmarks there's a site I find pretty handy called notebookcheck. It claims this model 960M with 4GB ram is pretty decent especially paired with the i7 6700HQ , will play latest games at 1080p high settings definitely play casual games max out

It's comparable to the 750ti desktop card so pretty decent. A 970m would be a lot better but the spec dell have put together here for this money is fantastic.

What are peoples thoughts on the 960m? It ranks low overall on the gpu benchmarks, but seems to vary wildly depending on the other hardware present.

http://www.passmark.com/baselines/V8/display.php?id=48865738548

I Imagine it'd sail nicely in this setup?

A heavily over clocked i5 might keep up with an i7 on a desktop, but this is a laptop deal and laptop i5 chips are usually only 2 core, so a 4 core i7 will blow a laptop i5 out of the water. Heavy overclocking in laptops often causes overheat problems, so not really recommmended. If your application does benefit from hyperthreads as well that's just a bonus.

Live chat is offline, no way else to get code working?

Edit:
PREMIUMSALE - £50 discount on selected Inspiron 7000 series and XPS products. Offer excludes XPS 13

The selected products are the older generation so those who went on live chat and got the £50 manually applied got a deal still.

Really tempted only two issues are:

Are Dell reliable these days? I know they've improved just afraid of spending this much for something that may not last.

Also this seems very powerful not sure I even need such high specs....is there a model below etc which is cheaper but is still applicable for the discount

Hottest gaming laptop deal around should be 1000 degrees! Good find thanks for posting!

For those struggling to find it (the OP's link doesn't work):
http://www.dell.com/uk/p/inspiron-15-7559-laptop/pd?ref=PD_OC

Or just go to dell.co.uk > For Home > Laptops > "New 15" (under Inspiron 7000 series)

The voucher code didn't work for me online, but click live chat and ask them to put the quote together for you. I went for the £849 base option (with UHD touch screen) + £25 1 year accidental damage cover (plan on upgrading the hard drive and figured this might be useful if I break something!) less the £50 offer, should have been £824 but for some reason I was quoted £821.54 which I readily accepted :smiley:

PS The quote started but GDDR5 and GDDR3 on the same line and I queried it, I was assured it's GDDR5 (4Gb) and that it's an error on the spec sheet.

thanks ordered one but had to do it by sales rep chat

I've no idea how anyone has been able to view this item on the website. All I get is an infinite redirect loop error

Take this from someone who for the last 3-4 days has been scouring the internet for used, manufacturer refurbished, and even imported gaming laptops at the £600-1000 range:

£699 for a laptop with those specs, particularly the GTX960M 4GB and the i7-6700HQ chipsets - simply does not exist today. This is a stupendously good price. If I were to try to find any other laptop brand new with the kind of specs this Dell Inspiron has I'd easily be in the £1000+ range. I'm so sure of this I'll accept any challenge on the matter .

The next best option I could find was a manufacturer refurbished Lenovo Y50-70 with a GTX960M 2GB and an i7-4010Q, with the same RAM, HDD, and everything else as this Dell. That was for £750 from the US (price including delivery, import and customs costs via eBay).

I hesitated due to the Lenovo Superfish rootkit drama, BIOS locking and other shenanigans Lenovo like to do, as well as the atrocious Wifi boards those models are plagued with - but boy am I glad I hesitated.

OP, I'd give you all the heat on the internet if I could.

I need a new laptop for work, and originally I was eyeing up the new XPS 15 because I can get a good deal on it. But from what I can tell, the only advantages of getting the XPS 15 over the Inspiron 7000 is the InfinityEdge display (small bezels) and 2133 MHz RAM. Otherwise the HDD, resolution etc. are all the same. The Inspiron even has 4GB VRAM on the GPU (2GB on the XPS), and is £350 cheaper!

I must say, this is massive amounts of pc for the money. The quad core skylake cpu and the graphics card are excellent for a laptop of this price, as are the screen, keyboard and OS. The ram and hard drive could arguably both be better, but at this price it is hard to see how, and they are both cheap upgrades if you use this site and a screwdriver!

If your a student in a tight ass room sure I can understand getting this, otherwise get a proper pc which is better, easier to upgrade and cheaper!

Up to 30% and that's in extreme circumstances.

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/how-to-determine-the-effectiveness-of-hyper-threading-technology-with-an-application

The technology / maths behind hyperthreading has not changed.

So to sum up, a heavily overclocked i5 will keep up with a stock i7 in most situations. 30/30/30/30 - 120. So just over the added power of 1 more core. Stick 1Ghz or more onto your i5 and your nearly clawing back the same added power. I'd rather have it than not have it, but it's nowhere near the same gain as extra cores. Also in some circumstances HT is undesirable altogether as it can create results that can't be interpolated easily. For instance falsification of CPU utilization.

You can possibly get %10 cash back from getpaidto.com
%10 cash back for dell

Was just about to say the same thing, but it is also very much dependent on what you do, if you have 8 power hungry processes this processor will beat the c*ap out of an i5 with essentially same cores.

As an example I have i7 3610QM and have been doing some programming which involved running the same program for a long time and basically up to 4th thread there is no slowdown, going over 4 sees you slowing down to about 80% and processor going into uncomfortable highs temperaturewise.

"hyperthreading enabled so essentially 8 cores!" - Nowhere close to being nearly 8 cores. Threads don't even compare to the power of a core.

hi guys what touchscreen laptop would you recommend. Around the £600 mark as would probably want to go for a warranty on top

Amazing price, would be all over this if I didn't already have a similar laptop. Have some heat.

Don't forget guys if you have an old pc / laptop laying around you can get £100 back :-

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/30-50-100-trade-cashback-laptops-desktops-bought-from-uk-retailers-2298404

Why it's so cold i don't know. It's no HP cashback where you can send anything back but I'm sure there are qualifying items you can send them that isn't worth £100.

the brand name doesn't necessarily mean its gonna go faster, the specs are actually stronger on this Dell.
lol this model is actually even has better specs than Dell's own entry level alien ware machine and its couple of hundred pounds less!

You should change the title to £698 - using code PREMIUMSALE drops £50 off the price.
If the code doesn't work, speak with an advisor on live chat and they will sort you a quote with £50 off.

Ordered mine, get it within 2 weeks!

can we add extra ram? This is for student who needs a laptop capable of rendering etc

Hey guys, deciding between this Dell inspiron and an msi pe70.. 17.3" - Core i5 4210H - 8 GB RAM - 1 TB HDD, NVIDIA GTX 960M - 2 GB GDDR5.
.. Both almost identical prices. Is there much in it between the two? Thank you for any advice.

4k and touch for £100 extra!

heat, heat, heat!!
I almost placed an order for a laptop on PCSpecialist for £1000 with similar spec.. Thank you OP!

Just ordered one through an online rep for £696.58. Estimated delivery date is: 05/11/2015 so around 3 weeks which will give me enough time to buy an SSD drive.

Only thing I'm worried about is Windows 10 as everything else sounds great...

It is the DDR 5 version, not the DDR 3
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Looks like a really good price for this spec gaming laptops are finally getting cheaper.

First of all the price is 698.60 inc. vat and delivery for today "Save £50 on select Inspiron 7000 Series and XPS PCs. Use the coupon code PREMIUMSALE. Offer ends 14 Oct.".

Also I have confirmed that the battery is a 6-cell one. "Marathon battery life: With a 6-cell 74Whr battery, expect 10+ hours of battery life to power your favorite games and videos without interruption. Combined with a 1” thin design and strong performance, this laptop makes it easy to take it all with you."

Finally the online rep insisted that the graphics card has DDR3 memory but apparently someone was told that it is DDR5.

In any case I'm buying one!

can someone from this comments let me know if they can see the image file i put link for. its the chat session with the Dell Rep

yep confirmed by sales rep on online chat it is GDDR5 model of GPU

Further down the main page for this laptop is says

well what da'ya know, it is the GDDR5 model. they made a mistake ..

and they may give you a discount because of this.

Got A link to it?

contacting them now about the GPU memory

The 950m has a ddr3 variant however

I didn't think the 960m could use ddr3? Think it's an error. Wouldn't worry about it. Makes no sense to have a 960m with ddr3 lol

Shame it's only using GDDR3 in the 960M, ruins an otherwise, very well balanced laptop.

Thats a meaty laptop.