20 years ago ​school was dos based word processing & light gaming was pacman.

Good price!

Hot!

Cheap for an i5 Heat added :smiley:

Hot

I bought this for £299 from ebuyer yesterday, and having looked for a few weeks for a cheapish (yet capable) laptop for my daughter I thought it was the best laptop for that kind of money.. 5th Gen i5 5200U, 5500 video card.. OK, only 4gb RAM and SATA HDD, but both these can be changed for not very much money. (which I suspect I wont bother doing, as it is more than good enough as is for my daughters use (school and some light gaming).

Hot from me.

Good laptops too. We bought a bunch of them for the primary school I teach at. Good trackpad (a rarity in affordable laptops - I'm looking at you Lenovo!), decent keyboard and a well built case and hinge.

I had this delivered from ebuyer today for my son for xmas.£299 & £3.78 tcb.

Good price --------------- £320 in Tesco.

Got one from Ebuyer last week for £299 for my Godson.

Nice little machine and now more of a bargain at this price.
Runs really well with Windows 10.
Hot!

Sounds good. Short video review here.

Would this be any good for minecraft and Sims 4?

Hot for my :smiley:

So now we need i5 for school and light gaming. I remember my 386 was fine for school and light gaming. Why hasn't computer tech advanced in 20 years?

Would this be fast enough to run an elgato hd60 without any lagging?

Looks like a good deal. The only issue I can see is the resolution of the screen at 1366 x 768 but if you arent fussy about that kind of thing its fine. It is rare to get a better screen in a sub £400 laptop so can't really complain.

Hahaha so true pmsl!

Picked up one of these earlier, thanks OP!

And yeah Sneiton, 768p is really poor, but as you say, it seems to be the standard res among all of these so it'll have to do. The laptop isn't for me anyway :P

Voted hot.
Have a little notepad with the deals i buy on here and the dates etc so i can compare them to current deals.
Bought a laptop from Tesco for £270 in May this year with an i5 5210U.
5200U processor is slightly better than that one, but might hold off for a better deal since thats not much of an upgrade in 6 months. But since its on par with the deal i had, voted hot. This i5 is nearly a year old so hopefully will last a while.
Looking for a laptop for my dad and he only wants basic but this would be a good shout.. tempting.

All this advance in processing power to stay in the same place. The user experience is the same. Computer tech needs to catch up with other high tech industries which have disruptive innovation every few years

not bad for the money, would suite a casual internet and word processing user who likes watching online content

Never used these guys, so anyone have any experience of them & their CS should anything go south? Would it be RTB repairs etc? Also, do they give a 'standard' 1 year warranty on kit like this or are they all John Lewis?

OK for a consumer laptop I guess..

​20 years ago we were using Windows 95,it's in the name :wink: (OK maybe just the rich schools)

how does this compare with the Acer 5560g that's what I have now?

Just purchased. Thanks for the heads up, been looking for a half decent laptop for the daughter's crimbo present

I have been thinking of getting this for my daughter from ebuyer for £299, although i'm torn between this model or the 350 G2 here which is the same price after cashback. Anyone know which is better? Specs seem to be the same.

Anyone know if it's win 10 pro? Can't see it on there

They are very similar.. the only difference I found was the 250 is newer (G4, Generation 4?), the 350 G2.. I went for the 250 G4 from ebay in the end.

shame it has malware 10 on it

Purchased...good deal, thanks OP

Thanks for your reply. What should I be looking for that would be able to run it and doesn't cost £600!

Really you need a dedicated graphics card...

but actually after I just looked, it seems you can run Minecraft and Sims 4 fine with this at about 30fps average, but it will not run anything more demanding..

It seems it has Intel HD Graphics 5500 and notebook check shows it running SIMS 4 fine..



so forgive my previous quick answer.. should be OK! as long as you do not want to run any more demanding games, and it should be very good for your web browsing, streaming etc..

Thanks so much for such a detailed reply, am going to go for it.
:wink:

Youre Welcome, have a good christmas :smiley:

Well I know not to believe ebay's "Limited quantity available" in future - he's sold 118 since I got mine last night!

My only concern with this one is the negative feedback this store has got in the last month. Plenty of people never received their orders or it was received broken and had issues getting refunds.

Hot! Just bought this + 240GB SSD + 4GB + Windows 10 :smiley:

Can you upgrade this laptop to 8GB ram...you know to make it faster or something. Also would a SSD make much difference?

I am a total noob to laptops - how do you know for certain that it has a spare ram slot, and it's not 2 x 2GB in there already?
Edit: ok, if it's like this one then it defo says 1 x 4gb http://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=N0Z91EA&opt=ABU&sel=NTB

expired

Thanks dude! Any idea if this laptop can accommodate the extra 4GB of RAM? I'm not sure how to tell. Does it say somewhere "my computer". Cheers!

Now £319.99

I ordered from ebuyer the other day too for £299. My only worry buying from ebay would be if something went wrong with it a few months down the line..

A bit fiddly to get into. I'd take five times longer and with a lot of swearing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey6KxAly9cQ&feature=youtu.be

Really tempted to buy this but as it's via ebay, I've got concerns regarding after sales service.

Still £299 at ebuyer.

http://www.ebuyer.com/724984-hp-250-g4-laptop-n1a92ea-abu

Mine has been dispatched, got text from DPD to say it's being delivered tomorrow.

I chanced it and bought from this seller as the bad feedback is only 1% in last month (42 of 4200) and most seem to relate to missing goods - possibly stolen by courier, which to be fair can take time to sort out.

I ordered last night and it was dispatched this morning by DPD with tracking number for delivery tomorrow - fingers crossed all should be good.

Also not sure why this expired - he's still sellling them at the same price.

It went up to £319.99 early this morning, hence the expire I suppose.. Although I can see its back down now.

Yeah and people who report problems with the item are almost all the same cheapo Linx tablets, looking at their price they're probably just a crappy device.

looks like 2 mugs paid 320 lol

Needs to be expired as nowvout of stock.

Got mine. All good, everything sealed. Turned it on just to test screen and trackpad etc. Happy :smiley:

£329.99 now

Price gone up!!

You can still get it from ebuyer £300 or debanhams £305
http://www.ebuyer.com/724984-hp-250-g4-laptop-n1a92ea-abu
http://www.debenhamsplus.com/de_hewlett_packard_notebook_10109443/version.asp

just received mine today. great deal. thanks op. hot.