​Whoosh!

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.

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!

Also can run kodi no problem

I guess .....

Sweet!, thanx. :-)

i7 model looks to be back in stock

Hi, just wondering if I would be able to connect to a cheap monitor with this laptop and run dual screens?

Is the graphics good enough to handle that pretty easily? does it have the interfaces to do that?

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!

Absolutely agree on this point. The organisation I used to work for had a supply contract with Toshiba, and the first thing we did as an IT department was wipe the hard drive and reinstall a clean copy of Windows - there's no need for these manufacturers to install all this bloatware and 3rd party rubbish.

Its sad PC World doesn't come with a 2 year guarantee like John Lewis not sure about Toshiba's warranty :disappointed:

This seems good value for money, 4k screen is tempting as well but obvious battery life tradeoff

Out of stock now

Popped into Currys during my lunch break they had the 4K model on display, my that screen is lovely! The unit itself is small on par size terms nearly with Dell XPS 13 though 13 has the edge display and bigger screen in a similar sized body. Unit performed well with quick play, touch screen was responsive and touch pad seemed responsive. I'm tempted with the 4k screen but staying away due to poor battery life. I was settled on the Dell XPS 13 but might just have to trial this Toshiba out and see how I get on with it for day to day activities at this price point for an ultraportable you get quite a lot for the buck. Would love the Surfacebook but not at it's release prices!!

Any word on battery life for the i5 model? Seems like an ideal option for me at the moment but really interested in reviews and the like. Where is the fan located on this machine? On the side or on the base?

lol dual core i7 - will be worth about £300 in a year or so.

Hey dude, thank you for all the replies you keep positing to my questions! I really appreciate all the information.

In regards to the M.2, I have been looking all over the internet for this ultrabook's user manual and service manual and I can only find small exerts of the ultrabook using a "sata SSD". Where abouts did you find out about it using an M.2?

A good one last week. Not i7 though. still 4 cores. Good specs for the money.
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/hp-pavilion-15-gaming-laptop-i5-6300hq-8gb-ram-4gb-gtx-950m-graphics-128gb-ssd-1tb-2392151


I remember have seen a more powerful MSI or Dell recently at a good price, having difficulty to find.

Another, but more powerful one.
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/lenovo-ideapad-y50-70-core-i7-4720hq-8gb-ram-256gb-ssd-nvidia-geforce-gtx-960m-667-2325855

If it is what you are looking for, just hold on and wait. Good deal on powerful laptop always come around in a month or two.

​I saw and tested it.... purely amazing, unbelievable and blazing fastest !! 2300 mb/s reading speed, 13500 multicore geekbench score, the best 4k. panel .. it has got the sexiest laptop I ve ever seen( 1.8 kg and thinner than macbook pro)

Any example. i7 gaming laptop FHD and dedicated gfx required for gaming?

If you do not need an Ultrabook, I have seen quite few gaming laptops here with FHD at the same price range, but a lot higher specs on CPU, RAM, GPU.

Not sure if they have SSD, if they do not, they will have 7200rpm hard drive. You can always upgrade SSD yourself.

Gaming laptops and Ultrabooks are both good, they serve different purpose and have different customer bases.


I have not searched for gaming laptop, I do not know if there is a good gaming laptop deal here today.

Ah man, I just bought the HP Probook 450 G2 + an m.2 SSD + 16gb of ram.

Do you guys think i should cancel those orders and go for this instead?

Yeah.

I have read that they redesign the XPS 15 now. The new version XPS 15 is much nicer than before. It is going to be as good as XPS 13 + a lot more powerful. Of course, it will be inevitably bigger and heavier given it is 2 inch bigger.

I have not seen the new version XPS 15 in person yet.

I have the version with the 4k screen and its a brilliant machine. Super light and powerful. If you look at Surface Pro 4 for similar specs you are talking over a grand. I always thought Toshiba laptops were a bit shabby in the past but this is a premium machine. I cant speak for the 1080p screen but the rest of it is knockout and with this model you will get much better battery life. Those who spoke about battery, bear in mind those reviews were of the 4k model which eats battery much more than 1080p.

If you are planning to carry the charger out during the day with your Ultrabook, you have not fully realised the potential/benefit of an Ultrabook.

Also, does this have an m.2 expansion slot?

I've been looking at those, but never got an definite answer as to which chromebook would be best for my needs.

I'm happy to take your suggestions on board :smiley:

How much is the 4k version

The idea is that you would replace the hdd with an ssd yourself (a far more useful "skill" than basic programming).

But I might also offer an alternative, a Chromebook? You install Linux to it and you are good to go. (Although maybe for a beginner Windows might be more friendly.)

But you might want to consider Lafitte at
pc.co.uk set it up with an i3 or Celeron some ram, install your windows from eBay and you can easily save 200£ on this. And if you put sm951 in it you will actually get a faster machine. I think scan is also offering customisable grafite 3xs 13 which would come out as 100£ cheaper than this if you install Windows yourself.

Sorry if i sounded like I didn't take what you said in account but I did and really did appreciate your input.

The i5 is sold out so there's only i7 available now anyways so that's pretty much made my decision as to which one to get.

Honestly one of the worst preconceptions about computers is that it will be as fast as it's cpu, after all a car is as fast as it's engine is strong right? Wrong.

Computers function more on a basis of weak links, so it will be as fast as it's slowest component and these days this is rarely the cpu. In light of this I absolutely hate laptops coming with i5's and super slow 2TB drives, they are often simply capitalising on ignorance of buyers.

Anyway sorry for the rant. Programming is basically just writing text, it requires virtually 0 resources. The bit when you go compiling the code and actually testing the program can be more cpu intensive, but unless you multithread (which based on what you suggested doing, you are not going to do) this is a very much single core process and usually really, really fast on almost any processor.

For the scientific calculator, just binary search everything, you can easily get crazy precision in good time. But point taken if you want precision of up to 100000 digits then it would help, but in my opinion if you do, it won't make enough of a difference to be worth it. You would also need to do fast fourier transforms to at least stand a chance of working with those precisions.

I'm not fussed about battery life. I'm sure I can find a power port somewhere.




With an SSD as well? I can see a few without SSD with the same specs, but not with an SSD
Unless you can point me in the right direction...

Reviews all say Radius has bad battery life.

If you plan to be out of house for a whole day and only charge when you get back home/hotel, this is not for you. 4k screen last 5 hours, FHD last about 7 hours below average performance.

Can anything compete at this price?

Cannot find any reviews online for this particular model

Dell outlet link never work.

We cannot tell which one you are looking for.

They are refurbished. They normally arrive at very good conditions. If you do not like the conditions when you received it, you can always return it straightaway.

Voted cold because it's not a macbook

Cannot find any reviews online for this particular model

Wow thanks for that. I shouldn't do anything too intense as in playing games or running VMs as I can use my desktop for that.

Probably the only game I'll play is team fortress 2 and possibly sims 3 or 4. But nothing more than that as I'm not really a pc gamer.

But the sole purpose of this purchase would be improving my programming skills whilst I'm away from the house really.

I've been looking at buying a laptop for creating simple programs, such as calculator, Coffee shop menus, etc woould it be preferable to buy an i7 over an i5?

this would only be used once / twice weekly at most whilst I'm out and about otherwise I'll be using the desktop at home.

Is this a good deal? http://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/SecondaryInventorySearch.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=dfh&cs=ukdfh1&key=V6BxyGSlzQZUttvRrRR%2fNA%3d%3d&puid=55ad2322

I assume it is an old version of the XPS 13, are the quality of the refurbs good at Dell? May I have a battery issue?

​prefer xps 15. not so much difference in dimensions between them. indeed, ddr4 and 4 cores on the 15 make the real difference.

I use XPS 13.

I think compare to this Ultrabook, everything is improved including look, smaller size and larger screen, slimness, weight, battery, overall quality.

This is not to dismiss the Toshiba though. It is good and with good screen only cost half of XPS 13.

There is not many choice of Ultrabook at half cost of XPS 13 and still have good screen. Zenbook UX305 is similar money and good screen too, but processor is weaker and no backlit keyboard.

So this Toshiba is a good buy too. Which one to go depends on your budget and how much do you value those little improvements.

There is no such thing, you do not need to try to find.

There is no XPS 13 with 6700HQ. That will just drain down the battery, and too much heat for the small frame.

Only the newest XPS 15 has the option of 6700HQ. The screen size do not fit your requirement.

You don't get it. It allows one to get to this level of portability and also battery life. The HQ versions may be more powerful and have more cores but they are horrendous on both fronts, that's why they don't make them in these form factors.

An i7 for video editing is a big advantage. It's shaved hours off my video renders and smoothed out editing certain codecs.

I cannot find a Dell XPS 13 with a 6700hq processor, please may you provide a link.

Also, what benefits do the Dell XPS 13 offer apart from build quality? Which I appreciate is far superior.

​choose 6700hq as processor not one of crappy u series

Thanks for your recommendation, the spec seems similar to this laptop. Are you just paying more for the finish and small frame?

Any recommendations for a laptop, my budget is between £800 - £1000.
I am looking for either a 12.5 or 13.3 screen, touchscreen is a nice to have for me.

Thank you

Nothing too intensive to begin with. Just to get to grips with programming whilst I'm away from home.
I have a desktop at home if I need to do so intensive programming.

Unless you think it'll be beneficial to get a i7 now? I'm not one of those people who does trades in for a newer model so I'll probably run it to the ground getting at least (hopefully) 3+ years usage on it.

Hot for what it is (Ultrabook) but I really hate Intel's processor naming scheme - quite a lot of i5 processors are faster than this "u" version of i7...

I'm looking for something that will edit photos in photoshop and videos, would this be suitable and should I go for the i5 or i7?

Hold that thought! You didn't say whether you'd have a simple or scientific calculator. If scientific go for the i7 but add extra RAM.

Am running Kodi on a Linx 7 tablet which costed £40.
Even the lowest spec devices will handle Kodi, integrated graphics can handle 1080p nowadays.

No, sorry, not tried.

Wow, thank you for the swift reply :smiley: I'll get that then. :smiley:

For CloudReady check http://www.neverware.com
For Chromium check http://www.arnoldthebat.co.uk

Ahhhhhhhhhh!!, do u have a link as to where I can download Chromium (ISO/EXE, etc) too please?. :-)

battery life can be managed with Toshiba ECO utility in windows power options if you don't mind limiting CPU power and brightness, also whilst it is an i7 it is more like a strong i5 as it is 2core/4thread whereas highend i7 are 4core/8thread.

I picked up one of these also, extra 100quid for the 4k battery killer screen but it is a great screen. nice quick laptop.

​Whoosh!

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.

kodi pah! xbmc is better! :man:

A refurbished one is £100 less at laptopsdirect.

Is there really little advantage in buying the i7 over the i5 ?

Is there really little advantage in buying the i7 over the i5 ?

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.