Good price for what you get! Any other 17.3" with better specs under £500 out there?
Screen size Information
17.3"
Processor Information
Intel Core i5-6200U
Memory (RAM) Information
8GB
Graphics card Information
Intel HD Graphics 5500
Top comments
huangxq2
4 Dec 153#8
Bought a Dell Inspiron 17-3721 in 2013 new for £350 with
Intel® Core™ i5-3337U (3M Cache, up to 2.7 GHz)
6GB RAM 1600MHz
1TB HDD
17.3 inch High Definition+ (1600 x 900)
How could this thing still price at £500 today with not much improvement????
It is still U version i5, no FHD, no SSD, only integrated graphic card, not a prestige model, other than 17 inch, why should it be priced at £500.
There must be something better for £500.
Ice cold.
VulpesVulpes
4 Dec 153#7
Truelife FHD (1920 x 1080) version on offer direct from Dell for only £50 more, until 7/12/2015 ...
Was looking at a laptop for my dad. All he does it web browsing and emails.
After reading the comments on that deal, the previous 3 or 4 on here then an hour of youtube videos they look the best price for basic computing. Noted that Skype does not work on these with video and audio, only text unless you are willing to mess about getting it working.
Look at this video for the basics of a Chromebook and decide if its enough for your needs.Chromebook For Beginners
mousey
3 Dec 15#5
Many thanks, don't really know much about laptops, just use for surfing web, online purchases, banking mainly! A bit of skype and maybe a bit of catch up tv. Screen size is good and like the 3yr warranty. Don't mind the price as we usually only change laptop about every 4/5 years. Thanks for you input, might have another wee look around!
krisward7955
3 Dec 15#6
Integrates graphics are using poo. But the Intel HD 5000 series Aren't too bad. Not brilliant, but fine for video playback.
VulpesVulpes
4 Dec 153#7
Truelife FHD (1920 x 1080) version on offer direct from Dell for only £50 more, until 7/12/2015 ...
Bought a Dell Inspiron 17-3721 in 2013 new for £350 with
Intel® Core™ i5-3337U (3M Cache, up to 2.7 GHz)
6GB RAM 1600MHz
1TB HDD
17.3 inch High Definition+ (1600 x 900)
How could this thing still price at £500 today with not much improvement????
It is still U version i5, no FHD, no SSD, only integrated graphic card, not a prestige model, other than 17 inch, why should it be priced at £500.
There must be something better for £500.
Ice cold.
huangxq2
5 Dec 151#9
I could not agree more with Trevanator.
If you do not have to have 17 inch, you are looking for around £300 for 15.6 or 14 inch with similar specs.
mousey
5 Dec 15#10
Thank - you, how kind to make the effort to respond, much appreciated! All advice taken onboard! The choice is vast!!
wyldwyvern
12 Dec 151#11
I have the i7-5500u and nvidia 840m graphics variant. The screen and everything else is the same though.
I love it, the Screen is bright and although not IPS has good viewing angles and the colour accuracy is good. It's fast and will do everything you want, even with the slightly slower i5 with ease. Unless you are running autocad, photoshop and 10 chrome tabs it won't even stress it out. Support will be great since it is John Lewis. Better than Dell's choice of courier for repairs, UPS is awful. Dell themselves are very responsive though.
Movies won't be in full HD but at this screen size it's fine to have 900p. the screen is fairly large too.
Graphics won't be the best but integrated graphics are able to run most semi-modern games on low settings and maybe medium without mods for things like minecraft. Hope this helps.
iceni
12 Dec 15#13
At that price demand a graphics card!
mousey
12 Dec 15#14
Thanks so much for your kind input, season greetings!
wyldwyvern
13 Dec 151#15
Your welcome, and Seasons Greetings!
I hate it when people try and give false impressions of a product. I hear people far to often saying things like "ooh you don't want that, integrated graphics just won't run games. Oh that i7, isn't a "true" I7 it's just a C**p dual core cpu."
considering that my last computer was a pentium mobile powered acer and that nearly did everything I needed (I'm a bit of a power user so that's impressive in itself. Most computers will do almost everything now. The only games off the top of my head that this and mine won't run is Crysis 3 and Arkham knight. both games make a lot of computers cry though so :smile:
mousey
13 Dec 151#16
Appreciate your knowledge, thanks again!
A1RN
13 Dec 15#17
Yeah demand a graphics card, that'll really make your Excel spreadsheets fly... Of course, every person in the world buying a computer, laptop especially, is a seasoned video gamer..
alxdenisov
13 Dec 15#18
I got this same spec last year (June) with full-hd touch screen & 4510U for 540. You should wait for Dell offers and buy directly from them.
terawatt
13 Dec 15#19
My brother has one of these, the screen quality is terrible, it's just unacceptable. Low viewing angles, poor colours, avoid.
manfrom to terawatt
13 Dec 15#20
I purchased this for £450 by haggling 10% discount with Dell 3 months ago, wanted a 17 inch screen.
Fully agree terrible screen quality, blacks appear grey, hardly see anything at 90 degrees. This is worse than my 7 year Dell that I had to replace. Don't like the screen at all. I use it for word, surfing, emails and can't even do that as youtube videos are just poor on this screen.
team_a
13 Dec 15#21
If you dont need 17 inch screen, there's a hp 250 i5 win10 4gb ram 500gb hdd laptop on ebay for £ 275 brand new.
shivrajrk to team_a
13 Dec 15#22
Link pls
team_a
16 Dec 15#23
Sorry i missed your post. The ebay deal has expired. However ebuyer has it for £300:
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Opening post
Screen size Information
17.3"
Processor Information
Intel Core i5-6200U
Memory (RAM) Information
8GB
Graphics card Information
Intel HD Graphics 5500
Top comments
Intel® Core™ i5-3337U (3M Cache, up to 2.7 GHz)
6GB RAM 1600MHz
1TB HDD
17.3 inch High Definition+ (1600 x 900)
How could this thing still price at £500 today with not much improvement????
It is still U version i5, no FHD, no SSD, only integrated graphic card, not a prestige model, other than 17 inch, why should it be priced at £500.
There must be something better for £500.
Ice cold.
http://www.dell.com/uk/p/inspiron-17-5759-laptop/pd?oc=cn75907&model_id=inspiron-17-5759-laptop
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Was looking at a laptop for my dad. All he does it web browsing and emails.
After reading the comments on that deal, the previous 3 or 4 on here then an hour of youtube videos they look the best price for basic computing. Noted that Skype does not work on these with video and audio, only text unless you are willing to mess about getting it working.
Look at this video for the basics of a Chromebook and decide if its enough for your needs.Chromebook For Beginners
http://www.dell.com/uk/p/inspiron-17-5759-laptop/pd?oc=cn75907&model_id=inspiron-17-5759-laptop
Intel® Core™ i5-3337U (3M Cache, up to 2.7 GHz)
6GB RAM 1600MHz
1TB HDD
17.3 inch High Definition+ (1600 x 900)
How could this thing still price at £500 today with not much improvement????
It is still U version i5, no FHD, no SSD, only integrated graphic card, not a prestige model, other than 17 inch, why should it be priced at £500.
There must be something better for £500.
Ice cold.
If you do not have to have 17 inch, you are looking for around £300 for 15.6 or 14 inch with similar specs.
I love it, the Screen is bright and although not IPS has good viewing angles and the colour accuracy is good. It's fast and will do everything you want, even with the slightly slower i5 with ease. Unless you are running autocad, photoshop and 10 chrome tabs it won't even stress it out. Support will be great since it is John Lewis. Better than Dell's choice of courier for repairs, UPS is awful. Dell themselves are very responsive though.
Movies won't be in full HD but at this screen size it's fine to have 900p. the screen is fairly large too.
Graphics won't be the best but integrated graphics are able to run most semi-modern games on low settings and maybe medium without mods for things like minecraft. Hope this helps.
I hate it when people try and give false impressions of a product. I hear people far to often saying things like "ooh you don't want that, integrated graphics just won't run games. Oh that i7, isn't a "true" I7 it's just a C**p dual core cpu."
considering that my last computer was a pentium mobile powered acer and that nearly did everything I needed (I'm a bit of a power user so that's impressive in itself. Most computers will do almost everything now. The only games off the top of my head that this and mine won't run is Crysis 3 and Arkham knight. both games make a lot of computers cry though so :smile:
Fully agree terrible screen quality, blacks appear grey, hardly see anything at 90 degrees. This is worse than my 7 year Dell that I had to replace. Don't like the screen at all. I use it for word, surfing, emails and can't even do that as youtube videos are just poor on this screen.
http://m.ebuyer.com/724984