They sold him a keyboard with a broken capslock key.

About this time last year I bought an Asus N551JK laptop that I saw on HUKD for £565. It had a 1080p 15.6" screen, an Intel 4200H CPU and an Nvidia 850M GPU (virtually the same as the 950M on this HP). So far it's handled every game I've thrown at it with consummate ease. One of the things I've realised since moving up to 1080p gaming is that whilst detail is nice, it's really all about the game. Playing something like Portal is just as much fun in 768p as it is in 1080p. Voted hot as this is probably the best value gaming laptop I've seen in HUKD since I saw the Asus.

In case someone wanted to order but just missed it, it's now back at £569.99 - just ordered one, apparently around 41 left in stock

While the cpu is by no means the bottle neck - it feels like intel has crippled this chip by removing hyper-threading.

The performance of i5-6300QM roughly same as 2nd Gen Intel Core i7-2670QM @ 2.20GHz.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-6300HQ+%40+2.30GHz
Now a 2670QM laptop goes for about £250 - obviously the new chip is more power efficient - it's just 550+ quid is alot!

They sold him a keyboard with a broken capslock key.

BEWARE EBUYER, I HAD A REALLY BAD EXPERIENCE WITH THEM, SO BUY AT YOUR PERIL!

I know there's 1st 2nd 3rd gen quad core i7's on laptops, there's probably on all generations. I've never seen a quad core i3 ever though and as I said it's because of HT if you think it's a quad core. Anyway let's not debate this any further as neither of us are sure about all the Intel CPUs out there on laptops and it's cluttering up this thread with I know what I know this that and the other which I doubt anyone cares about in all honesty.

Was going to buy this last night but site wouldnt work properly, is this still good value at 600£.

I wanted it primarily for photoshop and video editing, and not at all really for games, is there something better for similar price that i could go for? or are laptops for gaming always going to have similar required specs for photoshop and vid editing?

Thanks in advance for any helpful replies :smiley:

I am aware what hyperthreading is. (I can't tell about i3's to be honest) but i7-3610QM my lappy has is most certainly quad core. (it has 8 threads if that is bothering you).
A friend has a similar quad core i5 3rd gen.

4th gen quad cores go with HQ suffix I believe (i7-4712HQ as an example).

I am even fairly certain I have seen a quad i3 4th gen at some point...

I don't really know much about 2nd gen and before as I was "too young" then...

You talking physical or virtual cores? No i3's are quad core if you see four CPUs in device manager it's because of Hyperthreading.

Expired deal

£599 now

HP Pavilion with green outlook not bad have seen them in a store not that impressed but does the job GTX 950 is good for games like League, COD, Battlefield 3, Tomb raider, Dota 2 at high settings. i5 is more then enough for an average users (browsing, skype, beginner gaming, Microsoft office) for that money it sounds ok but will do look for other options in the market then choose to buy.

​he play age of empires imo

Great laptop got one before Christmas and sold my gtx 970 card due to it playing all my games. yeah some games arnt full settings like gta v but plays battlefront faultlessly and battlefield 4. ssd a bit small for my liking but just utilise the bigger drive more

There were no quad core i5 mobile cpus before Skylake.

Sure they are, I am certain for 3rd (I have one in my laptop) and 4th gen, (haven't seen a 5th gen 4 core ones).

As far as I understood the i cpus started as 4 cores and then the M and U editions with only 2 were introduced leading to a lot of criticism (for no good reason mostly imo).

This is a decent machine at a good price.

For gaming it is all a question of expectations, if 768p, 30fps on low detail is good enough for you it will run any game (contrary to what people claim). It will even do way better than that for a vast majority of games.

Of course if you think of "running" a game as 1080p 60fps and high detail than, sure, it won't run newer games...

not a bad price for the specs.

hot.

True, but four actual cores though

Ah must have read wrong one, but still no hyoerthreading.

I was wrong. Thanks as I said I skipped through the article and as I work with refurb laptops, I haven't had any with quad core i5's in them. I'll have to research if there were any quad core i5's in laptops before 6th gen.

Would consider, though has it got HDMI 2.0 or other means of connecting 4k TV/monitor?

I think he only plays Mine Sweeper.

Starting to change my mind actually. CPU has no hyperthreading and 65W TDP! I'm sure battery life is amazing......

When I was a youngster, we didn't really have computers. We had slide rules which aren't that great for any sort of gaming. I do sort of remember Pong being in pubs at uni but it cost money to play as I was truly skint back then so I watched more than played. The first game I really played was the first Duke Nukem in 1991. It was so brilliant back then...sigh...

Steam Home Streaming. Yes, it's basically a remote desktop, but specifically for video games. There are other ways of doing it but Steam can do it for you and it works very well. All you need to do is install and login to Steam on both computers and then one computer can stream a game to the other one over your local network - so in my case I've got a pretty decent desktop in my study and I can use it to play games on my laptop in the living room when I'm watching TV - so the desktop is running the game but you're viewing/controlling it on the laptop. If it's a non-Steam game you can still use Steam Home Streaming with it if you add a shortcut to the game in your Steam library.

I'm sorry to go off topic, what do you mean when you stream from your desktop? Do you mean something like teamviewer? I'm very interested in being able to get a bit more mobility but i have a beast desktop, but doesnt something like teamviewer have any latency involved?

You are right, desktop is for gaming, not laptop, but there are some decent cards in laptop that can handle games in high settings, but 950m isn't one of them...

Don't be silly.

I can tell you used to play ISS 64 as a youngster...

Read the whole article, tt relates to laptops as well... and you are wrong, there are quad core i5 in laptops, for example i5-6300HQ...

Did I say good? No, I said fine. But if you want to get into it some more we're going to have to define what we mean by 'good' and also what we mean by 'games'. Because PC gaming these days runs the gamut from indie games that could be run on a phone to really demanding games that even SLI Titans struggle with. I have a desktop as well and that has a GTX 980 - is that good for games? I think it is, but I don't play the kind of games on my laptop that I play on my desktop, and everything that's run on my laptop runs at high or highest settings. Sometimes I do want to play something a bit more demanding on my laptop whilst watching TV or something and that's when I use streaming - and even if I had a 950M I'd still be have to stream the more demanding games. If you're that bothered about playing everything at full settings then you're going to have a decent desktop build, not a laptop at all.

Guys would you say this is the best laptop under £600 thanks

That relates to desktop CPUs as far as I can tell from quickly browsing it. There aren't any quad core i5 in laptops and even the i7 is rarely quad core now in laptops.

630m good for games? Wake up please :smiley:

I mean its still 150 pound more even if you haggle lol.

This price seems very good.

Great spec for the price, though IMO doesn't look that great and HP don't have the best reputation. Has DVD drive though, potential for a 3 device storage setup! :sunglasses:

Good laptop, but not a gaming one with 950M. Heat added.

But that's a ridiculous price for that spec. Vastly overpriced. They're adding in a rucksack to make it look like a better package, along with some marketing.

The Dell Inspiron 7559 has a better package: http://www.dell.com/uk/p/inspiron-15-7559-laptop/pd

Same CPU, Better 960M GPU, Better HDD (it also has 8GB flash onboard) , Same RAM, much easier to get parts for if you drop it in 3 years time, a better collect & return warranty (or 2 years next business day for £64 right now).

You'd be really hard pressed to find a reason to buy the MSI at £952. More so given you can easily find the Dell for ~£50 cheaper not direct, or by asking / haggling with them on live chat.

Fantastic laptop, bought this from HP direct before Christmas.
950M has been handling GTA V on mid-to-high graphics at around 30fps, up to 50fps on low-medium. Not bad considering!

Hot! Great spec for the money, only weights 2.32kg as well. The 950m will handle just about any game just fine, although you're not going to be putting everything on max of course.

Overall for a quad core with 8g and a decent GPU, (The RAM can be upgraded to 16gb as well)

Definitely a thumbs up from me

There you go mate just took you over 100!

My son bought the lesser model no ssd and no full hd screen for £619 from costco after looking for over a week for a half decent laptop with a mid range gpu and he thought he got a bargain. Be hard to find a laptop with the same spec for cheaper.

interested in buying this one but i cant find any reviews

Tiny bit of quidco/TCB too

Is there a major difference between this i5 and an i7?

Even if the gpu may be lower kid ranges, the specs are a great find alone for this price.

Sure, it is about the game, but playing in 1080p makes it even more enjoyable...

About this time last year I bought an Asus N551JK laptop that I saw on HUKD for £565. It had a 1080p 15.6" screen, an Intel 4200H CPU and an Nvidia 850M GPU (virtually the same as the 950M on this HP). So far it's handled every game I've thrown at it with consummate ease. One of the things I've realised since moving up to 1080p gaming is that whilst detail is nice, it's really all about the game. Playing something like Portal is just as much fun in 768p as it is in 1080p. Voted hot as this is probably the best value gaming laptop I've seen in HUKD since I saw the Asus.

For Adobe Premier this card is more than enough...

Sorry for sounding a bit dumb but when it comes to GPUs i am clueless

I have checked this link but i am unable to tell which is the closest bench mark and which one would reflect Adobe premier cs6

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-740M.138026.0.html

There are some games benchmarks at the bottom of the page...

Any Ideas what this graphic card is like for video editing, Adobe premier cs6?

950M is mi

950M is mid range 128 bit graphic card + full hd screen on HP and you won't be able to play most of the modern games in high settings i'm afraid...

Good for the money and 950m is not a bad card, just expect medium not detail