(Core i5 6200u which is only marginally slower available for £549.99)
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ezzer72
15 Feb 169#11
Whoosh!
Spence1115
15 Feb 169#1
I have this laptop. Its good. Fast, light, the touchscreen works well, and the battery life is pretty decent (6 hours roughly). Only complaint I have is the amount of crap Toshiba fills it with. I had to wipe it immediately to remove all the crap. Thankfully, it recognised the existing Windows 10 licence from the PC even after wiping the SSD so it automatically activated again.
ameerhm
18 Feb 163#75
Probably worth mentioning here, I purchased this laptop and when trying to add additional ram and increase the storage, it came to my attention that the laptop doesn't support user-ram upgrades! The ram was actually soldered onto the motherboard, so you're pretty much stuck with 8gb here!
thecoolguy to imdurc
15 Feb 163#8
Also can run kodi no problem
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Spence1115
15 Feb 169#1
I have this laptop. Its good. Fast, light, the touchscreen works well, and the battery life is pretty decent (6 hours roughly). Only complaint I have is the amount of crap Toshiba fills it with. I had to wipe it immediately to remove all the crap. Thankfully, it recognised the existing Windows 10 licence from the PC even after wiping the SSD so it automatically activated again.
Sunni to Spence1115
15 Feb 16#2
I'm considering dualbooting this with Chromium/CloudReady. Any chance you've tried that (running it off of USB)?
gty1970
15 Feb 16#3
Is there really little advantage in buying the i7 over the i5 ?
Nexusfifth to gty1970
15 Feb 16#4
Very very little. Especially if you need to ask (it means you are not doing things where you would use full power of the cpu as if you did, you would know).
Honestly even the benchmarks are couple of hundred apart (less than 5%) and cpu is mostly not the main factor in the speed of a machine these days. (unless you buy under i3 and even then it is mostly other stuff that bottlenecks)
Save yourself 50£ and get an i5
gty1970
15 Feb 16#5
Is there really little advantage in buying the i7 over the i5 ?
daydreamer01
15 Feb 16#6
A refurbished one is £100 less at laptopsdirect.
imdurc
15 Feb 16#7
An i7 for video editing is a big advantage. It's shaved hours off my video renders and smoothed out editing certain codecs.
thecoolguy to imdurc
15 Feb 163#8
Also can run kodi no problem
haritori to imdurc
15 Feb 161#30
and for the other 99% of the UK an i5 will be fine :smile:.. no offence but who are all these Video Editors needing i7's?
Rich_T
15 Feb 16#9
kodi pah! xbmc is better! :man:
InsaneNutter
15 Feb 16#10
You don't need an i7 to run Kodi.
I'm running Kodi on a 1.6ghz single core Intel Atom from 2009, it's offloading the video playback to the Nvidia Ion gpu and has no problem with 1080p video playback.
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http://www.toshiba.co.uk/laptops/home-computing/satellite/satellite/satellite-radius-12/satellite-radius-12-p20w-c-103/
Looks quite good for the price.
(Core i5 6200u which is only marginally slower available for £549.99)
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Honestly even the benchmarks are couple of hundred apart (less than 5%) and cpu is mostly not the main factor in the speed of a machine these days. (unless you buy under i3 and even then it is mostly other stuff that bottlenecks)
Save yourself 50£ and get an i5
I'm running Kodi on a 1.6ghz single core Intel Atom from 2009, it's offloading the video playback to the Nvidia Ion gpu and has no problem with 1080p video playback.