Lenovo U31 Laptop, i7, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, 13.3" £529.95 - £499.95 @ John Lewis

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Lenovo U31 Laptop, i7, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, 13.3" £529.95 John Lewis £499.95

£499.95 John Lewis1 Jan 16

Source: HotUKDeals | Deals > Technology

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jevtamsn

30 Dec 15

Decent price for the specs. Win 10, full HD, smallish SSD but this can be changed easily.

Also has graphics card:

Graphics card Information NVIDIA GeForce 920M (2GB)
- gb1999

Top comments

Lakeside to kay1992

30 Dec 15 6 #12

Ha ha.

No it isn't.

BenderRodriguez

31 Dec 15 3 #26

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.asda.com
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.debenhams.com
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.sainsburys.co.uk
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.o2.com
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.bt.net
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.vodafone.co.uk
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/sky.co.uk
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.argos.co.uk
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.dell.co.uk
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/hp.com
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.tesco.com
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.audi.co.uk
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.ferrari.com

Bunch of random companies, all 1-2 stars. Does it mean that every single one of them is terrible and every single customer suffers unbearably on daily basis, or simply people who are happy with their products and services don't go on the internet posting reviews all day long? I feel really sorry for poor Ferrari owners. :disappointed:

Meanwhile I've seen dozens of dodgy looking websites without any business address or contact number offering suspiciously cheap prices that had 5* reviews all over the internet. Written mostly by mr Prudish McStuffins de Shroeder from Jamaica or some other random nonsense.

Here's some food for thoughts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y0pYUdfGiw

All comments (57)

chrismya

30 Dec 15 #1

Have been looking at this also not sure if there is anything better out there iv got a £800 budget

xela333 to chrismya

30 Dec 15 #2

Depends what you want to use it for?

jevtamsn to chrismya

30 Dec 15 #3

For £800, I'd go for:
http://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=K3E18EA&opt=ABU&sel=NTB

i7 processor with 12GB RAM
128GB SSD
1TB SATA
Aluminum chassis
Full-HD anti-glare display
NVIDIA GeFORCE GTX950M 4GB

Conradgoat to chrismya

30 Dec 15 #13

http://m.johnlewis.com/mt/www.johnlewis.com/hp-pavilion-15-ak011na-gaming-laptop-intel-core-i7-8gb-ram-1tb-128gb-ssd-15-hybrid-green/p2269733?un_jtt_v_pdp=yes&un_jtt_v_from_product=un_product_1#page_loaded

If you got 850, get this.

Quad-Core Intel Core i7-6700HQ
Full HD 15 inch screen
Bang & Olufsen PLAY dual speakers
Windows 10
1TB + 128GB SSD
8GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M (4GB)
2 year guarantee

jacki10

30 Dec 15 #4

I need a laptop for my new business to do financial spreadsheets, and to be able to create possible point of sale, is this a good laptop for my use and can anyone recommend a decent printer with low price ink cartridges please?

ujags12

30 Dec 15 #5

very poor battery life

jevtamsn to ujags12

30 Dec 15 #7

It has a real graphic card, so it drains fast. Without WiFi and NVidia lasts 9 hours.

IDsev

30 Dec 15 #6

Hi, could this play Star Wars: The Old Republic? Thanks

gb1999 to IDsev

30 Dec 15 #15

Should run it easily. You won't be able to play for long at a time though unless the laptop is plugged in!

chrismya

30 Dec 15 #8

Looks real good I can't find out what i7 chip it is tho ?

ujags12

30 Dec 15 #9

true ...thats the point with 13.3" inch display i would like to see more than 7 hours and for business users this is not ideal; and if you want to keep it as a desktop worth getting bigger screen ...just a thought

comriegold99

30 Dec 15 #10

We bought a lenovo from John lewis on the 27th.
Price £450 I'm store but £350 online.
Got it for 350 obviously but weird that jl had two different prices for the same item

kay1992

30 Dec 15 #11

Worst company is John Lewis.

Lakeside to kay1992

30 Dec 15 6 #12

Ha ha.

No it isn't.

chocolatenomlike to kay1992

30 Dec 15 #14

i think you mean worst company for laptop is asus or lenovo, john lewis is one of the best for stores considering their lineant warranty

afroylnt

31 Dec 15 #16

great deal! has 'Accutype Backlit Keyboard' as well.

hugekebab

31 Dec 15 #17

4 hours battery life on a 13 inch. Whats the point?

KP2013

31 Dec 15 #18

Have the 17 version of this. Screen quality not great. Maximum brightness is not good enough. Otherwise blazing fast. Not used for games though.

DKB07

31 Dec 15 #19

For £850 I'd probably rather go for the Dell Insipiron 7559 series

6th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-6700HQ Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.50 GHz)]
15.6-inch UHD (3840 x 2160) Truelife LED- Backlit Touch Display
8GB Single Channel DDR3L 1600MHz (8GBx1)
1TB 5400 rpm Hybrid Hard Drive + 8GB Embedded Flash Cache
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960M 4GB GDDR5
One screw to remove the lid so easy access to upgrade SSD with a free M.2 slot

For £750 you get the same spec but FHD rather than UHD. If you go on chat they usually knock off £50.

BenderRodriguez

31 Dec 15 #20

Nice spec although it's gaming-oriented. If you're not playing to do so I'd ditch the hard drive and GPU and put that money into large SSD. Battery life will improve greatly.

kay1992

31 Dec 15 #21

Yeah, good luck getting help when things go wrong.

Uridium

31 Dec 15 1 #22

Sounds like you had a bad experience with John Lewis..that isn't the norm though, generally speaking they are one of the best out there for customer service.

kay1992

31 Dec 15 #23

People need to stop falling for their products and branding...

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.johnlewis.com

Better companies out there.

amour3k

31 Dec 15 #24

Yep!, that kinda looks like a 'BEAST' alright ..... hehe. :-)

amour3k

31 Dec 15 #25

Your link of:

What's so special about John Lewis? https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.johnlewis.com

Very interesting .....

BenderRodriguez

31 Dec 15 3 #26

addyb

31 Dec 15 #27

Not sure if serious. John Lewis are great. You've obviously had a bad experience or your just bored and decided to troll.

GwanGy

31 Dec 15 #28

I'd be interested in which ones ...? honestly ..
This laptop minus the expensive bits i7=i3, 4gb=8gb 500gb HDD instead of 128gb SSD would be fine for me ....

Nutkin

31 Dec 15 #29

and yet asus and lenovo come high on the recommended list for reliability.

keir01

31 Dec 15 #30

May I ask which one you bought? Thanks

busterdan

31 Dec 15 1 #31

already posted... http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/lenovo-u31-laptop-intel-core-i7-8gb-ram-128gb-13-3-red-white-529-95-johnlewis-2361165

mrrog

31 Dec 15 #32

if it doesn't say IPS it almost certainly isn't, so combined with an anti-glare screen your going to get really poor viewing angles and washed out colours, all in glorious full hd, really after a computers speed (mostly down to cpu) the viewing experience has to be the next most important thing, think of your smartphone or tv, tat

headworx

31 Dec 15 #33

haha, Asus doing really good laptops.

ranjb

31 Dec 15 #34

its come down to £499 now on JL site.

eakin

31 Dec 15 #35

I bought this and it arrived today (I see he has 1 left)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-EliteBook-840-G2-14-Intel-Core-i5-5300u-2-30Ghz-256GB-SSD-8GB-Ultrabook-/262204462533?hash=item3d0c9a95c5:g:u~EAAOSwSdZWedld

Real nice piece of kit (albeit without dedicated graphics card)
I texted the number directly and paid with paypal rather than go through ebay (negotiated £490 including delivery), bit risky I know... but took the risk as the feedback was good.

Delighted with the laptop

eakin

31 Dec 15 #36

blakester

31 Dec 15 1 #37

Yoda, is that you trolling again?

mrspydey

31 Dec 15 #38

499.95

mvx

31 Dec 15 #39

Oh bummer, I'm regretting having bought a Zenbook UX305 now. This Lenovo spec comes with 3 thinks that my Zenbook is missing: backlit keyboard, descent processor and speakers.

londonguy

31 Dec 15 #40

these laptops are just overpriced crap , buy any 5th or 6th gen i5 and stick a fhd screen in and a ssd yourself

Crazygooner1

31 Dec 15 #41

Suggestions ?

londonguy

31 Dec 15 #42

what ever you can find , looking for laptops past few days just shows up what crazy spec are out there , soon as fhd and an ssd are included they seem to be in the 600 -800 range although fhd 15.6 is £30 and sdd is the same

s1m0nc

31 Dec 15 #43

Looked at these before Xmas. In disbelief that Dell are punting these out with 5400rpm 1TB drives in. They might be hybrids but sheesh... imo first thing a user needing this level of kit is going to do is swap it out for an SSD anyway, which made it pricey to me. The older 7548's were a better deal for me. Annoying... :disappointed:

AlarApprentice

31 Dec 15 #44

!!!! Loving my sleek, silent Asus zen book ux305 with its beautiful screen which you can watch for hours and hours....no regrets and so many people I know are hoping it's going to come down to £499 again at JL having seen mine.
There is a suspicious lack of reviews of this Lenovo with this spec and if the battery life is crap, having something this portable is pointless...

HDUK4me

31 Dec 15 #45

I've own a refurbished thinkpad for 18 months .....18 months of use and abuse on a daily basis and its never skipped a beat. They probably make a cheaper range to meet market demands which aren't as reliable but generally I wouldn't say Lenovo are "poor" machines infact from my experience they are one of the best.

Also , reading back through the comments how can someone compare a £499 laptop with one at £800 ?

Dealzzzzz

31 Dec 15 #46

Lol it's a joke, seems as soon as you move into bigger size computers manufacturers see it as an opportunity to downgrade the SSD to a hard drive...

samiraamassoul

1 Jan 16 #47

sorry to sound dumb but I'm looking for a laptop. don't understand what the sdd memory is, when it has that do you still get the internal memories which are usually 1tb plus

DKB07

1 Jan 16 #48

True but the free M.2 slot means you can store games and other media on the HDD and run the PC on the usually smaller SSD rather than have an external HD, which is what you would have to do if you really want it for gaming/media consumption.

Additionally, the cost of a 128GB SSD and 1TB external hard drive is almost identical. So it's not much of a price increase anyway.

P.S Yes it is a hybrid.

momanium

1 Jan 16 1 #49

Latops have hard drives that allows user to store movies, programme files, windows etc.

SSD's are a newer form of Hard drives, rather than using spinning disks like normal hard drives they use flash memory, similiar to how a USB uses flash memory. This means they're quicker, lighter, quieter, less power hungry etc. They are more expensive than hard drives but are a worthy investment, many people replace their hard drive with an SSD. A 250GB SSD is about 50 quid and one of the best upgrades you can do, it can be a little bit of a pain moving Windows onto it and what not but theres plenty of guides and people willing to help.

What I recommend doing is putting as SSD in and then putting the original hard drive in using a cd conversion kit. This replaces the CD drive in the laptop with another hard drive port so in effect you can have two hard drives in the laptop, one ssd and one normal one. Put windows and all speed-dependent things on the SSD and movies and photos on the hard drive.

Hope this clears it up.

julianmile

2 Jan 16 #50

super fast computer. really loved it. my first day on it!
Got it from JL today, store had a 3 year warranty typo on the tag. hence managed to honor that!

ritchie1

6 Jan 16 #51

I bought this laptop when it was £529.95 and just in passing saw this thread again with a lower price. I contacted John Lewis via their live chat and got £30 refunded for the price drop after purchase. Quite happy with that.

Also the laptop is quite good. It's an ultrabook (light, thin and quite powerful). The screen is nice, trackpad a good size, build quality seems quite good and specs are impressive (for the price and size).

Only bad points are battery life could be better (although it has battery saver mode and supports a fast charging mode enabled through driver settings) and I haven't figured out how to enable double tap (not click) and triple tap/click on the trackpad (right click and middle click respectively). The trackpad driver doesn't seem to have an option for it.

You get 100GB of usable space about 20Gb of which is taken up by Windows. After a large Windows 10 update there is a Windows.old folder which takes up loads of space which can be properly deleted using the Disk Cleanup utility (assuming you don't want to revert to the previous Windows version). Space isn't a huge issue for me as it isn't my main computer but the small 128GB SSD could be an issue for some. Also opening the laptop will invalidate the JL warranty so replacing the SSD might not be worth it during the warranty period in case a fault develops.

ukripper

6 Jan 16 #52

Just ordered had a gift card too £450 2 years warranty!! Been searching good deal with full HD and graphics and performing lappy. So far this deal seems to be the best for under £500

ukripper

6 Jan 16 #53

In this form factor having dedicated graphics chip will cause battery consumption, I guess this fact is duly noted but doesn't impact my purchase decision. I still think for this price it is the best deal around right now within this price bracket..

julianmile

6 Jan 16 #54

how did you managed to get 100gb free? I had the pc pre-installed with windows 10, it shows only 60gb left ... felt the pie is half eaten already

ritchie1

7 Jan 16 #55

When I got the laptop I removed all the crapware included such as the office trial, anti virus trial and most of the lenovo apps (you can use an app called decrapifier) . 128gb ssd - > 100gb formatted size. 20gb is taken up by Windows. I also disabled the Windows paging file which is 8gb.

Use a free (and open source) app called WinDirStat to scan your drive and identify what is taken up room.

julianmile

13 Jan 16 #56

thanks for the detailed tips! I tried the decrapfier but unfortunately it cant recommend anything to be removed really. So just have to accept the storage of 128GB got half taken by the system.

bavi014

9 Jul 16 #57

got one today in clearance for 399.first time it booted, I said 'WOW'

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