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Not much of a performance difference between the low power I3 and low power I5 though. I'd personally go for more ram and bigger hdd

This is now down to £249.99 after cashback if purchased during the promotional period 01/06/2016 – 30/06/2016

£20 cashback can be claimed within 30 - 60 days of your purchase date via the HP website here:
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Old Chinese proverb roughly translated : If you want to perform you have to get down

...but then it is no longer such a bargain.

Get this then stick in the £150 tb SSD from the other deal. Should fairly fly along with that.

i3 is a very good processor for normal use.

Both of them have 3 MB cache and 2 cores:

HP 250 G4 Laptop (£269.99)
Intel® Core™ i3-5005U 2GHz
Intel HD Graphics
3 MB cache
2 cores

HP 250 G4 Laptop (£279.99)
Intel® Core™ i5-5200U 2.2 GHz
Intel HD Graphics 5500
Up to 2.7 GHz with Intel Turbo Boost Technology
3 MB cache
2 cores

I'd say there would be quite a noticeable difference, the i5 can turbo boost its frequency and is slightly more energy efficient. the i5's Passmark score is 25% higher than the i3's. well worth the extra bit of dosh I reckon!

It shouldn't be a problem putting more ram in and a bigger hdd

Btw the laptop is great. Quite quick considering only an i3 processor. Much quicker than those **** celeron or amd processors that last 8+ hours on battery. The touchpad and keyboard is great too, the only letdown is the low res. display and bad viewing angles. You can't have everything for sub £300 though!

Lately there was a post from dabs (bt.com) offering the 4gb model with 128gb ssd for £250. Even though this deal is good, I'd wait with that if not urgent, the one with SSD is likely to be on discount soon again somewhere!

I take it your talking about this current post and not another laptop?

Or get a cheap USB drive enclosure off eBay for a few quid and stick it in there if you want to use the DVD drive.

You could always pop the DVD tray out, buy an SSD and a tray caddy, then put them back in in place of the DVD. Then you shift the Operating System to the SSD. You'll have a fast system, with your 1TB for the loss of a DVD that you'll rarely use.

I want the 1tb storage though......a 1tb SSD would be rather expensive....

I've got one of these, not a bad laptop worth an extra £30 to put a solid state drive in thou. I used this guide - https://youtu.be/ey6KxAly9cQ very easy and straight forward

Also, do a fresh install of Windows, there's the usual new build bloat to deal with otherwise...

Bought this for someone last week. It's not bad, not amazing build quality but okay. Spec is good for the money, stick an SSD in there and you're laughing :wink:

Have some heat OP, wishing I'd posted this myself now.

Had one of these delivered today for my father in law, first impressions are good nice little machine, the only downside is it feels cheap.

Oh well I bet that's made up your mind then !

I personally go with your other post deal!
i5 but less ram and HDD.