This laptop seems like a good deal to me, it was also posted here two weeks ago at £550 from JL with £100 cashback included, however this deal seems to be cheaper with the discount already included (so no need to specifically apply for it from what I can see)
(Deal apparently available until 17/01/2016)
The post from two weeks ago had comments that were generally favourable, this is an i7 with a full HD IPS screen plus 128GB SSD and 8GB of RAM, by all accounts it should be pretty quick except for very graphically intensive games. The battery does look to be a bit of an achilles heel though.
It comes in Red and White...
Rather than replicate all the specs please click on the link..
All comments (32)
thel33ter
26 Dec 15#1
Awesome deal if you need a decent laptop for home use, would buy if it wasn't for the battery.
SartoriX
26 Dec 15#2
This actually looks a really good deal, quite tempted!
mrrog
26 Dec 151#3
For a core i7 its nothing special, it may be an ssd but its barely enough, best thing is the fhd IPS panel, which at 13.3" gives about 165 PPI, overall about par for the price, or would be if the shops weren't putting massive mark-ups on rubbish
BSM9
26 Dec 15#4
it also has a 920m which imo makes this a really good deal, i cant find an i7, 1080p, 13" laptop with a dedicated gpu near that price elsewhere. even has a backlit keyboard.
mrrog to BSM9
26 Dec 151#5
Don't know much about this GPU but if its a good one it'll be throttled back by the average CPU, not a bad deal, but not a good one, and certainly the higher price quoted is unrealistic
haritori to BSM9
26 Dec 151#7
Problem is that GPU will prob just about run The Sims 4 or Minecraft, in fact it will just about run Skyrim @ medium on 1366x768, Intel IRIS graphics are better... so i would not buy this laptop based on its GPU.
grimboj2
26 Dec 151#6
128GB ssd!? That's gonna be a constant limitation
pibpob to grimboj2
26 Dec 152#8
No - only a limitation when you fill it up. :smiley:
DKB07 to grimboj2
26 Dec 15#9
Wouldn't agree with that, not when you can get 128gb USB drives the size of your thumbnail for under £30, or small notebook sized 1TB external hard drives for £35.
Decent deal, I think I posted the £550 one, but the spec may have been slightly different. Hot.
mrrog
26 Dec 15#10
Then you need to add £30 - £35 to the price for a like for like comparison, plus the bind of lugging around the extra drives and the bind of controlling the write location in windows 10
DKB07
26 Dec 15#11
Agreed but with this specification +£30 you don't get something else near the price, secondly, a thumbnail sized USB isn't lugging around, and a 1TB notebook doesn't weigh much either these days. Additionally it's become common practice to carry an external hard drive with you, not to mention it's safer from corruption and an excellent back up. This combined with cloud services means 128GB can be enough depending on what you need the device for.
If you do need more space for media consumption then it's sensible to have movies/pictures/music on an external hard drive anyway, and if you want it for gaming, then as you, and many others pointed out, this isn't the laptop for you.
busterdan
26 Dec 15#12
128gb... wouldn't really be an issue for me for a laptop.... I never keep important stuff on a laptop and being mostly mobile I increasingly use cloud storage anyway. as mentioned a 128gb USB drive would really be ample for anything extra.
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This laptop seems like a good deal to me, it was also posted here two weeks ago at £550 from JL with £100 cashback included, however this deal seems to be cheaper with the discount already included (so no need to specifically apply for it from what I can see)
(Deal apparently available until 17/01/2016)
The post from two weeks ago had comments that were generally favourable, this is an i7 with a full HD IPS screen plus 128GB SSD and 8GB of RAM, by all accounts it should be pretty quick except for very graphically intensive games. The battery does look to be a bit of an achilles heel though.
It comes in Red and White...
Rather than replicate all the specs please click on the link..
All comments (32)
Decent deal, I think I posted the £550 one, but the spec may have been slightly different. Hot.
If you do need more space for media consumption then it's sensible to have movies/pictures/music on an external hard drive anyway, and if you want it for gaming, then as you, and many others pointed out, this isn't the laptop for you.