One of whom? (It's "You're")

Nope. Trolls like you should be banned. Take a look at yourself. This is a casual forum. Who gives a **** about grammar.

It's worth the upgrade just to speed up boot times, by the way that photo of you holding a todger to your face should be banned

A very casual user still benefits from faster boot up times, so that point is simply wrong. Casual doesn't mean "I want to sit here and wait five minutes for my PC to boot."

Forget the exorbitant Office 365 thing.

Get the Student/Home version of Office 2013 instead or something?, & yes, BOTH offerings are going for round about the exact same price! (before you ask ..... ) :-)

For anyone still considering buying this, be aware the laptop looks different than shown in the stock images (there is in fact no gap between screen and keyboard) I've alerted Tesco to this and they are planning to now update the images.

Might be important to some, like myself, I think aesthetically it looks worse without it.

​It makes the machine 5x faster is that not a good reason?

which one is better, this lenovo or HP 455 (http://www.ebuyer.com/705955-hp-455-quad-core-laptop-l8b56es?utm_source=2016-05-30&utm_medium=campaign_email&utm_campaign=B2C_%28Monday%29_Openers&reevoo_page=2#reevoo_embedded_reviews)? It's the same price so..

Was supposed of said please

A large canvas may have been a better, cheaper option

Where is cheapest place for office 365 ease ordered for my daughter for collage use.

Too much info, thanks

Back in stock, just ordered for £199 :-) Thanks OP!

Maximum memory: 16GB
Slots:2 (2 banks of 1)

Yep, ordered one today at £199 as code still working too!
Let's hope Tesco don't cancel it though..........

Looks like it's back in stock.

Can anyone tell me the max memory this can use? does it only have one slot with a max of 8gb or 16gb?

​kingston 2240GB v300 fitted mine

​ for faster boot times, a more responsive system, faster browser performance on account of the faster cache read speeds and 0 second seek times, longer battery life, much more durable than a spinning drive, and when data fails on an ssd it tends to be incremental instead of instant. anything I've missed?

Thanks for alerting about the deal. Ordered, arrived next day and all set up. Seems a good little laptop for the money. It's not a top end spec but ideal for general family use. Very pleased so far. Got Windows 365 home premium on good deal with Tesco outlet as well. Thank you

I bought this laptop 3 weeks ago when it was £239 and I thought that was a deal! Its a great laptop.

Can a monitor be connected to these - i don't port for this..?

YouTube, the 100% reliable and unbiased site for irrefutably accurate facts!

As you are the one who made the claim in the first place it's your job to do the research and provide sources, it isn't my job to research. (Burden of proof, you might want to research that).

Thank you for finally providing the link to actual figures. If you'd just done that in the first place we could've saved all that chatter. So to summarise, it says 25% of Apple devices in 2010 in the US failed after 2 years. That's still one quarter, meaning 75% (the vast majority) didn't fail. Furthermore, how does this compare with other manufacturers besides Apple? What was the cause of failure, eg drops/water damage etc? I note that "accident rate" make up 18.1% of that percentage and only 7.5% malfunction rate.

What does this high accident rate tell us? Can we really blame Apple for making such beautiful devices that people might like to use them without a case? Is it maybe that a significant proportion of Apple device users happen to be careless or that they tend to slip out of one's hand? When compared like for like with other phone manufacturers what are the malfunction vs accident rates? Would it be premature to extrapolate that Apple devices tend to fail when they aren't damaged by the user shortly after warranty from this data? In my opinion yes.

Oh dear Misa another member of the spelling police.
Well having a repair workshop and already provided you with an expert on youtube you prefer to go on your singular experience.

Idiot as i thought.
More money than sense!
Funny its always the ones that are loaded that come out with the crap you do.
M5rcc also provided you with links which also show the figures duhhhh yet you only go on your own personal experience rather than engineers who see hundreds or thousands of the Crapple products come and go for repairs lol what a dumbutt!

Being an Iphoney user I suppose you couldnt do a google search?
Real dumbutt+1

http://www.statista.com/statistics/218777/failure-rates-for-iphones-in-the-us-by-type-of-failure/

On the whole a OK laptop for the money, but the speaker's are very poor.

Is the screen quality acceptable given the overall price?

​I put a 240GB Kingston SSD in my Lenovo. yes it was the same deal. I agree it was tricky to open up the laptop to do the upgrade though

Returned it today and got a refund.
Very poor display,crap speakers and noisey trackpad.
Anyone who missed out, missed nothing.

What's an "electotronics" engineer, never heard of them! Since you're either in a made up profession or can't spell your own profession, I somehow doubt your authority here.

I don't care about Louis Poohey, where are the actual figures showing Apple products fail shortly after warranty. I've owned multiple iPhones and funnily enough they've all lasted well beyond their warranty. You must be the stupid one and your last comment about people who spend £600 on a smartphone just proves it. "You can get two PCs for the same amount." Dumbest logic ever. You could also end famine for a family in Africa for a month for that amount. People spend on things they want. What world do these people live in? Maybe they're more well off than you are and enjoy quality.

​SSD should speed up browsing too. Certainly in Firefox, which spends a good deal of time grinding your spinner into dust while it manages the cache.

I am an electotronics engineer 30 years - I am telling you Apple is a joke and has fooled stupid people like you who believe everything they are fed - sure they are good to look at and use but inside lies the rub.

As I already said you want proof then check the links provided or just google Louis Rossman on youtube - he is an Apple specialist and describes Apple products in a "ahem" rather direct way!

You have to laugh at peopl;e who think spending £600 on a smartphone when you could build two pcs for that amount as a bargain! What world do these people live in - usually plnety of money ime.

I've just cancelled my order.... so 1 should be back in stock. Decided to spend more & get a Hp 450 pro.

Anybody that paid £229 for this email Tesco and mention the voucher code and they will refund you £20 (well they did me anyway) they also said if the item comes back in stock within 28 days i can have the £10 price reduction too

It was only my account tesco locked it because i have like 13 so they deleted 12 now i got 1 like everybody :disappointed:

Can anyone reckon a 240GB SSD that will fit?

OOS no longer available

whats the max memory you can upgrade to?

No, it wouldn't matter. If Apple's products really did all fail soon after warranty and as a result their reputation went down the drain and the consumers decided to stop purchasing Apple products, as one would expect, they'd surely no longer be in business.

And actually I find Apple are reasonably priced compared. For example, their latest and in my opinion greatest iPhone, iPhone SE, is one of their least expensive yet.

Not if they get away with charging extortionate amounts for the products in the first place...

Obviously, year on year processors get faster and new software has higher hardware demands. It doesn't take a genius to know that, but it makes for nice newspaper headlines.

My question was, what reliable source are you basing the statement that Apple products fail soon after warranty as this simply isn't my experience, and Apple have one of the strongest reputations in this area. Apple would quickly go out of business if it were the case.

Seems the one I posted last night from Amazon has gone...

Thanks, are you sure it's the same? Lenovo 100-15IBD (Tesco) Lenovo 100-15IBY (Amazon) Also no mention of Intel Core i3 on Amazon..

GRRRR was just about to order but it is now "currently unavailable"

it s allright shame about ram 4gb it is not enough those days

Your work? Still yet to see anything other than a vain and pathetic attempt at being amusing...

I see my work here is done, goodbye then and try to behave yourself in future.

it doesn't feature a built in webcam does it?

Goodbye then, dear...

Still nothing original to add, I might need to look for more interesting fish to lampoon today if that's all you've got.

Who is Marvin?

As I said previously: not fat, nor balding, nor on a desktop, nor spotty, nor living in a flat and don't have dirty clothes everywhere. Even the wrong skin colour!

Nice try...

I must have missed that...

Laughable. There is plenty of evidence of Apple's planned obsolescence here, here, here and here.

Is that all you've got Marvin? What happened to that razor sharp wit you thought you had?

Found a gif, even better!

At least I won the (moral) highground in the battle against moronic grammar snobbery.

Do you really need double the RAM and Storage for an extra £90?

This laptop is a typewriter for £199. Not worth to buy it unless you ONLY going to use it for very basics as word/excel and internet.

Interesting... I can't comment from experience on the longevity of their laptops, but I have an iPhone 3GS all the way from 2009 still working, multiple iPhone 4s from 2010 still working perfectly. What reliable source are you basing the statement that Apple products fail soon after warranty as this simply isn't my experience, and Apple have one of the strongest reputations in this area

Not fat, nor balding, nor on a deskop, nor spotty, nor living in a flat and don't have dirty clothes everywhere.

Perhaps it was a self-portrait?

You are so demanding!
>)
Let me elucidate - "most of his technical answers!"
I hope that clears that up!

Do you not have a bed to go to M5?
That picture Shay posted could actually be quite apt!

How about this from Argos...

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4875619.htm

Sold by ComputerPirates. How apt!

Well you could if you bought it here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-IdeaPad-100-15IBD-i3-5005U-Bluetooth/dp/B01EOW4B4A/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1464126961&sr=8-10&keywords=Lenovo+100-15IBD

Although the traders name sort of gives the game away!

Just ordered.... had some reward vouchers & got it for £186..... can't really go wrong!

Oh that was meant to be me? Bless...


Most?

lol

Its a bit like a fencing match - parry , thrust , parry , thrust!
Each Shaydog thrust is met by an equal parry!
Hard to give points to the winner really!

Roflmao
I think i will pinch that photie!

Although his grammatical policing is a bit extreme for a casual forum, m5rcc is actually correct in most of his replies!
And besides its been a most amusing thread - who needs the TV when you have HUKD!
>;o)

I corrected someone's false statement.


Indeed you are.

You sound like a bit of a know-all with no substance... but I could be wrong... making statements with no explanation is not likely to help anybody... therefore I would think you could be classed as a troll, but I'm sure you would know that.

Great stuff! This is now better than Allo' Allo' !
OK, who's googling quotes?
"God moaning"

Ooooooooooooh you are awful!
>;o)

Not for the first time on this thread...

Please do. I'm sure I stole it from elsewhere.

M5RCC is correct!
We dont see many Ibm/Lenovos for repair so there you go!

Just google Louis Rossman on Youtube he will tell you in no uncertain terms how **** Apple products are!
And he is a well known specialist in Apple repairs!
Yes they are **** products in terms of repair and longevity and yes there is no coincidence that their products fail shortly after warranty expires - its not gossip just google the facts - why do you think Apple are making so much money they are the biggest company in IT after being the smallest! Simple - change the way you manufacture and send it all to Shenzen in China to be manufactured in sweat shops/factories that have their workers jumping out of windows 20 floors to the ground to escape!

Twunt - Roflmao can i use that lol

I like Gunt myself - very expressive of the reality of modern women in the UK!

What a funny and educational day its been - i've even learnt a new word or two!
Frabjous joy!

No, usually blocked venting lots of fluff , cigarette ash or failed fan bushes/bearings depending on the fan!

Built in obsolescence indeed - I also repair plasma tellys and these are designed for 2-4 years tops - you wonder why they give you a 2 year guarantee lol

Same problem with plasma tellies as with thin laptops - the case is thin and the cheapskates dont put heatsinks on the y-sus chips , use cheap resistors and capacitors that they have tested to failure and know full well the electrolyte will dry up under heat they will only last 2-4 years. I have a marconiphone crt television in my loft that is over 40 years old and it still works - terrible , we are destroying our environment - dont get me started on iphones and tablets with non (or very difficult) to replace batteries!

How does this laptop work with Linux/Freebsd, etc?

does it have a webcam?

Would this run CS-GO?

m5rcc please just shut up, nobody cares what you have to say.

Apple are the masters of modern-day planned obsolescence. No coincidence that Apple products fail soon after their warranty period ends...

Doesn't Apple have a reputation for long lasting and extremely well built laptops? Do you get a lot of Apple laptops sent for repair, just wondering?

None taken. I find wise quotes sound even wiser when they come from a cat. And doubly so when said cat is on a tricycle.

Go with this deal.
Sub £200 for 5th gen i3 won`t be beaten.

Not the same processor.

How does this one compare to HP Envy 15 ah100na??
Need new laptop. At the moment have Toshiba satellite L500, so I suspect either of these will be better than what i have currently.. Any comments gratefully received.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/visit?m=449&q=2450874

Do it!

Oh my god.

Don't make me quote Frozen...

Only £199 on Lenovo website ! http://shop.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops/ideapad/100-series/100-15-inch/#tab-customize

You'd know...

@m5rcc You seriously need to get a life "dear". Have you honestly got nothing better to do than correct grammar?! I don't know what insecurities you have that this kind of behaviour somehow compensates. What a total utter twunt. Ohhh that's not a real word is it?!?

Not strictly true. X-series Thinkpads are thin and last a long time


That is planned obsolescence

:confused:

How many of those failures are caused by idiot teenagers putting their laptops on their beds, blocking the cooling and still expecting them to run without problems?

lol
Yes was it John Inman or Frankie Howerd that said "dear" all the time?

He is available for Weddings , Christenings but i wonder if he would do beheadings at the local Mosque?

The thinner the laptop the higher the propensity for failure!
Apple laptops are a disgrace and are designed to last 4 years at the very most!

Laptops should be made thicker not thinner - the number of these ultra thin laptops i get in my workshop is unreal and
they all have the same faults caused by overheating the solder / damaging the gpu etc etc etc

Still not a bad price for an I3 and Lenovo are good lappies!
The closest was the HP G4 but it cant touch the Lenovo.
I am reballing a Dell as I type this at the moment - nasty Nvidia chip failures - Laptops are just not built for 24 hour gaming!

Really? I just thought he was gay! :confused:

It's absolutely terrible. I have to use my earphones to hear anything.

Bought it for £229 but for £199 it's a steal. Heated.

"Cat on a tricycle" -> roflmao

I see its a competition of the wits today!
Yesterday it was the twits!
What cometh tomorrow?

" If five or more say it, then it's likely to be true and it's a problem area you should acknowledge as something to work on."

That is actually quite true!

Familiarity breeds contempt is also true!

Then correct yourself before posting tosh!

Thanks :wink:

Available for weddings, christenings, bar mitzvahs...

It's comments like yours i was on about.typical,of the forums on here,it's here to be enjoyed,a laugh and hopefully to get a deal.not nit pick over every comment.

Put this on a cat poster please.

I feel there's a good point to be made, but it needs to be made by a cat on a tricycle, not you. No offence.

Haha very funny, you have given me a real laugh today - A bit of the spelling and grammar Police on a casual forum but you make some good points and have a rapier wit! I hope my spelling and grammar meet with sir's approval!
The "dear" is a putdown in and of itself!

Countdown would actually refer more to spelling...

It's becoming more like Countdown on here with all the grammar Nazis!

Don't get me started on that subject!

126 posts up to now and only about a dozen relevant.

End of the day a brand new laptop for under £200 is a great deal! Even if it's not up there with Mac lad's. Idea for my daughter with college work.

Thank you for continuing the derailment...

To be fair when he said this laptop can only take max 120gb SSD i did roll my eyes and think why do these people bother. The problem with this site is you get a lot of people trying to be helpful but give bad advice or information and when you tell them otherwise they go into denial (most don't have a clue and use google for their info).

I once read something along the lines of (and I probably don't remember it well enough aside from the core lesson) - if one person says it, ignore it. If two people say it, don't let it get to you. If five or more say it, then it's likely to be true and it's a problem area you should acknowledge as something to work on.

This deal thread has gone nearly completely off the rails.

It's been reduced by £10, and the eCoupon code TDX-V4X7 can be used for £20 off, making it £199:

That explains why things are getting steamed up in here! :confused:

Clearly you do...

Oh, ok.....who cares, anyway this was fun, enjoy the rest of your evening.

A lot of ego in here - this is just a laptop deal, not a competition to see who can patronise whom!

Come on, let's start again. Is this a hot deal on this laptop? I think so, and voted hot accordingly.

Comments welcome.

Too lazy to click? I did it for your convenience, dear!

I corrected someone who positively believed that this laptop was restricted to a 120GB SSD drive.

All you have done is link to your own twaddle, answer the question.

Which false statement did you correct?

So correcting someone making a false statement is "bullying"?

Do you need a hug?

I didn't notice anything of interest, only the bullying caught my attention.

Are you hoping to sell them on at profit?

I don't need to. I said very clearly that it's a good deal, but it's not earth shattering in my view when there are quite a few compromises made. I disagree that its price of £199 is the "only one point to consider" when I'd happily spend an extra £100 just to upgrade the naff screen.

I've said plenty on the first page, dear. Seems that you conveniently ignore such a fact...

You don't seem to have anything of your own to say. Just avoiding the question and reactions to my points with more patronising and closing down the discussion.

It's always enjoyable pointing out a bully though.

ordered 3 more. here is the upgrade video for anyone who needs it. Note this is a slightly different model but pretty much everything is in the right place in this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbhez1C3nec

It's 'condescending'

Post #79?

Only one point to consider -------------- it`s £199.

Post something else of similar spec for £199.

I can - I just did


Wrong - I correct someone who made a false statement. Apparently that makes me a troll...


No but it would seem you are given that I cannot "choose whether or not something is relevant in a debate".

Make your mind up, son....

Price has dropped £10 in last couple of hours. Rang up and they have refunded me that amount to my payment card. 0800 323 4050

At the risk of being pelted with excrement... if you're looking to buy a laptop of this spec you'll probably be a lot better served going the second-hand route. It's a decent spec for the price and should definitely be considered a good deal, but it's not earth-shattering.

A few points to consider:
- CPU is good but won't set the world on fire. It's right at the bottom end of anything with an "i" prefix. A 5 year old i5 will outperform it
- 1336x768 is, in my opinion, unacceptable on a 15" laptop in 2016
- Super glossy screen will make sunlight your enemy, though this is an issue with most budget laptops
- Inbuilt speaker is woeful, even for a laptop
- Borderline useless for gaming, if you're interested
- Contrary to what anyone else in this thread has said, you really should upgrade to a SSD, so consider this an additional expense on top of some sort of caddy to stick the 500GB in

You don't get to choose whether or not something is relevant in a debate, you just get to debate it. So if you have something to argue then argue it. It appears that you don't want to hold a discussion with anyone who holds opposing opinions, you just want them to be quiet. If embarrassment doesn't work then you try a little condensation or patronisation.

You come across as being against free speech. Is that the case?

Well happy with that £199. Thanks op.

There are pros and cons for both sides. This guy wanted to put an SSD in this laptop, and luckily, he didn't post here before he did, because he'd still be undecided if he had. My point was, he has the freedom of choice to buy the laptop and do what he likes with it, so fair play to him! Myself, I would have painted it green. :smile:

Refer to post #56


Irrelevant in this 'debate'



It's 'Eton', dear

Just ordered two at £199 each.
Thanks to OP and for the discount code.
Who said bargains don`t exist anymore.
Win Win.

just perfect for someone looking for this...
thanks.

It is showing as £219 now and the 20 quid voucher still works too so, down to £199 + delivery etc..

By pointing out people's grammatical mistakes you're trying to shut them down through embarrassment rather than having a proper debate which looks like classism and elitism to me. So you had access to a better education than someone else, lucky you, was that meritocratically earned? Or are you just a snob?
This is HUKD not the debating room at Eaton.

And also provided the disk has good wear levelling, a bigger disk used more lightly will likely last longer, though I do not think this is a big factor. Has everyone forgotten to be afraid of SSDs wearing out? :smiley:[/quote]
I have had two SSD failures already. I think people forget what computing was like before SSD technology and now think anything non-SSD is based is effectively rubbish.

No

Thank you for your contribution

Is Tesco Direct down now?

Are you sure that's not just what their alternative model comes with?

Dislike.

Is the screen IPS? I had the Flex 14 and the screen was a terrible dim TN panel with screen door effect which basically ruined the experience for me even though i3 + ssd and RAM upgrade is very fast.

Is the screen IPS? I had the Flex 14 and the screen was a terrible dim TN panel with screen door effect which basically ruined the experience for me even though i3 + ssd and RAM upgrade is very fast.

And also provided the disk has good wear levelling, a bigger disk used more lightly will likely last longer, though I do not think this is a big factor. Has everyone forgotten to be afraid of SSDs wearing out? :smiley:

Thanks. Ordered one (with the £20 off code)

Sure, but the way people go on about installing an SSD on here suggests you are stupid if you don't paint your house green. On a laptop costing £210, a 250gb ssd on a HUKD offer of around £40 is an effective increase of 20%... if you saw that posted as a deal it would get shot down for being expensive for an i3 laptop.

There are advantages to installing an SSD but it is not a one-way deal... the time taken to install, the capacity is reduced (unless you spend £90 on a 480gb ssd) and there is a lot for a non-techie to get wrong in the installation... and it's not free. I'd normall wantr an ssd but not convinced it is worth it on a fairly basic system (i3 with 4gb ram) unless I was travelling with it.

If you are worried about boot time decreasing, use something like HijackThis to see what is running on startup / in the notification bar and remove offending programs. IIRC, windows 10 has a boot-time analysis tool in it (or is that just Pro?).

Something like this? https://youtu.be/Kbhez1C3nec

Some of the YouTube comments are useful too.

Surely arrogant was supposed to be an adjective, since the noun was 'know-it-all'...? :neutral_face:

Don't forget the marginal improvements on battery life :smile:

It's not necessary to paint your house green but people still do. It's called freedom of choice and long may it reign. :-)

Lenovo X230/x240

Is the best laptop I've ever owned, they are built to last and are beasts, like the design and this model is not even heavy,

can get for 150-250 depending on specs on ebay

The CPU in that one is a N2840. This one is a i3-5005U and is better. In a nutshell this laptop has a better than average CPU and costs £210. That's between £50-100 cheaper than equivalents, eg HP250 G4

Is this better than alternative Lenovo for £199? Specs look similar. Looking for something cheap but reliable enough to outlast the 1yr guarantee. Use would be just for daily web browsing & occasional bit of word processing / spreadsheet writing. http://www.tesco.com/direct/lenovo-ideapad-100-156-celeron-4gb500gb-black-laptop/782-1376.prd?skuId=782-1376

screengrab here Don't forget if you add code: TDX-V4X7 then it brings it down even further to £209.00 !!!! Just tested it at checkout, works perfectly :smiley:

Don't forget if you add code: TDX-V4X7 then it brings it down even further to £209.00 !!!! Just tested it at checkout, works perfectly :smiley:

My wife uses her laptop 95% for browsing - but even she appreciated the quicker shutdown/ restart a SDD upgrade provided.

Yes it was the same price, but without the £20 discount code. So I think it is cheaper this time.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/lenovo-100-15ibd-15-6-intel-i3-5005u-4gb-500gb-usb-3-0-bluetooth-webcam-windows-2437829?page=4#comments

It was the same price before at Tesco, about a month or so back, someone posted it.

I also rang Tesco's customer services and quoted the code and they are refunding me £20. Fantastic deal for a budget i3 laptop.

Sadly I can't account for stupidity/naivety/ignorance/defensiveness

I don't think anyone said it was necessary, but surely it's desirable to have faster boot times even if all you do once you've booted up is web browse? Plus all those updates that require restarting? Plus, you have a nice quiet SSD with no moving parts as someone mentioned.

I meant offence as in the opposite of defence.
It's just how your comments have come across. Clearly an issue for some judging by the replies.

Sure, however in the example previously where the laptop will apparently be used solely for the purpose of web browsing, it is not necessary to upgrade.

But generally an SSD will considerably speed up the boot time more than any other component upgrade.

An SSD drive will bog down with crapware. It will not remain permanently a "three second boot" either...

On my parents' laptop, and on almost any non-SSD computer on Windows, I find they boot up quick at first/on a clean install. Then once you've installed a few programs they take ages. I haven't measured it on my parents' laptop but it really does feel like five minutes when you factor in that even after booting up it's still loading stuff (the hard drive is audibly loading) and you have to wait a good while before you can launch Google Chrome etc. They're on Windows 7. This is consistently my experience. And you can do little things like remove start up programs, make sure there's no malware etc but nothing apart from an SSD will make a real difference.

When did spindle-based hard drives EVER take five minutes to boot up!?

Offended? Who did I offend?

Unfortunately, people do not have the right not to be offended...

A very casual user still benefits from faster boot up times, so that point is simply wrong. Casual doesn't mean "I want to sit here and wait five minutes for my PC to boot."

This isn't much faster than a 5 year old first gen i3, however there's a lot of energy saving been made in the CPU design, so battery life will be a lot better.

You've just saved me £40, I called customer services and they reimbursed my card as I purchased 2 laptops, cheers mate!

Is this on club card boost

£209 now. Code TDX-V4X7

He does appear that way but I can't fault anything he's said in this thread.

Called out the bullsh*t 120GB limit.
Questioned the need for an SSD upgrade in a very casual users laptop. (both sides have very valid points).
Answered the last question on whether or not this a good buy machine.

Probably could have handled it with a little less offence but the core message is true.

But l guess a deal for the price if it's a OK.

Lol..... Again very funny chaps!
So tell me is this a good laptop,even if it's not a cool Mac!?

Ding ding

Who fell out?

This post what is it all about? Lol.
A laptop is what, why do chaps fall out on here?

Ban him! He didn't end his sentence with appropriate punctuation!

Thanks for posting much appreciated

yah there are many here... sometimes amusing

How am I a troll? I had to correct your false statement...

Arrogant is an adjective, not a noun. At least I'm not an ignorant...

Nope. Trolls like you should be banned. Take a look at yourself. This is a casual forum. Who gives a **** about grammar.

It boots faster... Windows updates install faster... there are no moving parts to break down. We are all entitled to opinions but this is something I felt was worth doing. I don't know for sure if it is your intention or not but you are just coming across as an arrogant know it all.

In-laws have plenty of time to waste...


I think people with a poor grasp of grammar should be banned

It's worth the upgrade just to speed up boot times, by the way that photo of you holding a todger to your face should be banned

Yes but it serves zero purpose in this instance given the use is merely for web browsing. The pre-installed 500gb would have sufficed, no?

It was about £18 and makes it perform better so it was a no brainer. Everyone knows SSD improves performance.

Windows is fine. I'd 'downgrade' to Windows 7.

Don't get defensive, dear. Merely a question... You cite to change the hard drive to a SSD to make it faster but solely to web browse. Makes no sense whatsoever.

Why do you care?

I'm a Mac/Linux fan. I bought this machine for my in laws. Wouldn't touch Microsoft **** personally.

Then why bother to install an SSD at all?

Because they won't need more than 90GB for surfing the net. Not everyone needs storage.

Inferior processor...

Disappointing specified battery "3 hrs" aside, the CPU is a welcome if incremental step up from the previous years i3 4005U, especially so the i3 5005U's HD5500 integrated graphics part. Not much to complain about at that price! If someone can find a Skylake i3 CPU deal at that price, let me know! Hot!

Windoze 10 - good grief...

No I did a fresh OS install. Just download Win 10 the serial key is hard coded into the firmware.

So did you clone os to new ssd first reducing partition size

http://www.very.co.uk/lenovo-ideapad-305-intelreg-pentiumreg-processor-8gb-ram-1tb-storage-156-inch-hd-laptop-with-optional-microsoft-office-365-blue/1600022376.prd

got a text for this offer before, don't know how the processor compares but seems okay

And that is fine, but SSDs are relatively cheap so why compromise given one can fill 90GB very quickly?

Not Full HD though.

Maybe you are right. 120GB is ample for my in laws. It's got over 90GB free space.

One of whom? (It's "You're")

Your one of them are you

Then make a bootable Windows 10 USB drive then reinstall with that. It will boot in about 3 seconds.

There is no limit. Any SATA 3 (6Gb/S) SSD is fine.

Enlighten

Not true

I just found a video on dismantle bit as you say worth it and the challenge, cheers

Eh?

So to fit SSD you have to remove all screws out the bottom then pull the keyboard out the front and remove three screws (one is under void warranty sticker). Pull out the DVD drive and it should all come apart. Took me hours to figure that out. Some of the plastic clasps snapped but it really doesn't matter. Solid as a rock when a screwed back together.

I stuck this one in .. http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/integral-120gb-p-series-4-sata-iii-2-5-ssd-drive-24-99-delivered-mymemory-2414403

Which ssd did you fit, thanks

On the specs on the Lenovo website it said so. Can't find the page now.

Which ssd will fit this model, thanks

Good info, thanks, I've ordered for a friend

Got one. Replacing HDD with SSD is quite tricky but made one hell of a difference especially when all the bloat ware was removed with clean OS install. Please note max SSD upgrade is 120gb.

We've been using Thinkpads from way back when they were made by IBM and latterly the Lenovo versions and I hadn't a clue where their customer service centre was located as not once have we had reason to use them.

Good find OP, heat from me.

lenovo's customer service is based in Swindon... Just putting it out there

Haha its been a long day

I wouldn't expect a mole to know the difference between a plug and a trigger :wink: