i5 comes with priority access to busy websites

Definitely a better deal, but we don't all work at Tesco.

Lag on a busy website?!

15.6" screen

​I'm sorry - Yes, credit goes to this user.

Nice find oddball and thanks for posting freddy. Just bought one, will pick it up on Tues and see what it's like. Was looking around for a cheapish laptop with an SSD and nearly bought one with a slightly slower processor for £280. Came on here to look first and was glad I did :-) £234 seems like a steal to me.

Bought this with a better proccesor i5 6200u (6th Gen) for £255.60 10% staff discount and £15 voucher http://www.tesco.com/direct/hp-250-g4-156-inch-laptop-core-i5-windows-10-home-4gb-ram-128gb-ssd-black/447-5385.prd?pageLevel=&skuId=447-5385
Seems like a better steal to me what you reckon guys?

Definitely a better deal, but we don't all work at Tesco.

£284 with the voucher seems fairly reasonable tbh. Not sure if it's possible to upgrade ram to 8gb for example?

Opted for this one thanks. Would have preferred bigger ram but 4gb will do for now I guess. Heat added.

Too many limiting factors. Core i3, 4GB and 128GB ssd? I couldn't survive in Windows 7 with 128GB and core i3 would lag on a busy website? Upgrade all 3 £100 and it would be a bargain

​it is quite important to know when buying a laptop?

Lag on a busy website?!

​Ok but that doesn't mean this will lag on websites.

Nice price, glad to see HP are putting SSD drives into low and medium spec laptops at last, let's hope the other manufacturers follow suit.

He's joking superfreddy.

can the SSD and RAM be upgraded in this easily?

@ kowalski I replied yes at first but didn't realise the back is one piece.
This vid makes it look do-able - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey6KxAly9cQ

With an SSD onboard the 4Gb will be far less of an issue.
When you run out of RAM memory it will start paging to SSD 'memory' - nothing like a regular hard drive.

This was one of my worries - going from a laptop with 6GB or RAM to this.

I have bought it but 128GB is a slight concern.

In terms of gaming, how would this perform?

At this size, no FHD screen = no deal.

At this price with SSD and core i3?
Some people expect too much

Exactly, where can you even find a FHD, i3, 128GB SSD for sub £250? you can't is the answer

I don't mind pay a bit more, but again, at this size, no FHD = no deal, even at this price.

This or a a MacBook Air? Deciding on a laptop for work and photo editing

I have a 15" HP with a FHD and its overkill.

You have to bump everything up to 125% size ,otherwise font and icons are too small for comfort.
You really need a 17 inch screen to utilise a FHD screen properly in my opinion.

4 of these :wink:

​I, for one, am grateful for that.

I wouldn't buy a MBA over anything right now...bottom of the pile in terms of Macbooks, awful screen not really that thin and light compared to other offerings nowadays either...
If you want a Mac stump up the cash and buy a Macbook Pro Retina...If not you'll always wished you had.

the i5 looks the better deal

What type of games is this HP likely to run?

Solitaire

I thought "geez, that's a lot for an SSD, then I realised you get a free laptop with it !"

I might be wrong but there seems to be £20 cash back on this model from HP until the end of the week... https://hpcashback.com/gb/en/pages/cashback/qualifying

If not, the same machine but with a 1TB HDD and 8GB of RAM is available for the same money from ebuyer if you take off the cashback.

http://www.ebuyer.com/740903-hp-250-g4-laptop-p5r50es-abu

I think you're wrong.

It looks like this one qualifies for the £20 cashback.

Mfr part code: P5R50ES#ABU

just ordered 2. thanks

You're not related to my wife are you...? :smile:
Yeah I amended above mate. Not sure if the 1TB is a better deal, same price after cash back.

If you had a £15 voucher...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J3bOPhEUzY gta5 - low settings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHKpTaES6qg Dark Souls 3 - low settings

​Is that the same graphics then?

If so, I'm pretty happy as it'll play steam games I have bought when they've been pennies!

Yes, same integrated graphics.

they should take down the CD writer, put 8gb extra ram and 256gb ssd, make it £280.. voila.. perfect system for me

Is it perfectly ok to clean install windows when I get this? The HP junk will only slow it down and waste space.

Need an external now to back up photos.

"Save £15 when you spend £100 or more on Computing, TVs and Home Cinema with code TDX-J4X7" :smiley:
hope that helps

I have a very similar set up.
The extra 4gb ram made a huge difference for me after i upgraded.

waste of time that resolution

Amazing what you can get for under £250 now!
Have some heat

Not bad price if you're technical and can fix the driver problems or don't need WiFi. Not to mention the reliability issues that HP is known for. Bought 13 HP g4 and g3 laptops this year for work... Not impressed with the quality control at all

​Can you explain why?

bought this sat for £234 using offer - should have posted it myself then! Picked it up from local Tesco this evening. Perfect Laptop for my soon to be thirteen year old son

You have to change the advanced settings in device manager to get decent WiFi reception. By decent I mean more than one bar and a successful connection. Also at least one of them I had to open up to improve the antenna connection and it's not easy to get to the antenna connection at all.

​Wasn't this exact one though. May have just been an error your end?

Is anyone going to do a windows fresh install when they receive theirs?

Thanks looks a bargain ordered

It's exactly the same voucher as used in the original deal.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/hp-250-g4-core-i5-4gb-ram-128gb-ssd-284-tesco-2460624#comments

http://www.tesco.com/direct/hp-250-g4-156-inch-laptop-core-i5-windows-10-home-4gb-ram-128gb-ssd-black/447-5385.prd?pageLevel&skuId=447-5385&sc_cmp=aff*nt*gmo*HotUKDeals_1018132&utm_medium=gmo&utm_source=tradedoubler&utm_campaign=aff*HotUKDeals_1018132

£284 with code already posted.

The drive is different but all the other hardware is the same and quite a few others have the same problem. I found the solution on the hp forum. One poster said it was a known issue for a while that HP haven't done anything about. Search for poor WiFi sensitivity or similar in the forum there's a few threads on various hp laptops there. In particular a Ralink and a broadcomm adaptor that are used in the g3 and g4 but other models too.

It's worth it if you can.

So there's no harm in doing it then?

Can't add it to my basket

Would this be a good enough specs to run SQL reports on access? I want to learn how to use SQL so it'd only be basic reports, the price is right for this laptop but I don't know if it might run too slow for what I'd need? Any advice appreciated, thanks :smiley:

Received this today. Amazing so far. Full review tomorrow night.

Ok, so my review of this laptop...

It arrived next day at the Tesco store as promised. Packaged really well.

The laptop itself feels really small and lightweight and looks really nice. The top of the laptop is a grey/black colour and looks really modern.

The initial set up was a bit slow, mainly because of all the HP messages and HP software loading. Once that had finished and all the bloatware was uninstalled, the laptop is incredibly quick. From powering on, to getting to the log on screen is about 7 seconds. As soon as you log in, within 2 seconds it's all on. Very impressed.

The only noise is the fan. But you expect that, but there's no hard drive noise obviously with it being an SSD.

The screen is great, and I have tried a YouTube 1080p trailer on it and it's really clear and vivid.

Was well worth the £234 I paid for it. I am tempted to clean install windows though, but concerned about the HP drivers and such.

the £15 voucher is valid in-store only when you spend £100 on electrical products. on the back Page of the Summer Savers Yellow flyer/ leaflet picked one up on entrance yesterday valid 21/06/16 to 03/07/16

Code TDX-J4X7 is available for use online. I have just used it when ordering the i5 version of this laptop. See
http://www.tesco.com/direct/technology-gaming/?icid=TopNav_flyoutlink_TechnologyAndGaming

I know it has Windows 10 installed but does it come with a Windows 10 key that you can use on other machines or does it not work like that?

It'll be an OEM licence for that machine only

anyway i can get this laptop down to windows 7?

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Picked mine up yesterday and set it all up. Had no problem with wifi at all, great connection and speed is basically same as my wire connection. So far laptop has been good. For the price it is pretty spectacular.

Glad to hear it hope it proves a good one. Given the squaretrade warranty survey, admittedly getting on a bit, and my experience with the 13 we bought for work, I'd not buy hp again but there's always lucky and unlucky people

Would this run football manager 2016 on a reasonable setting? Am I right in assuming that the 3D match engine would not run on this laptop with the lack of dedicated graphics card? Thanks

Everyone happy? My fan is always on and noticeable - is that normal?

can i downgrade to windows 7?

Code expired :disappointed:

Code expired

Is everyone finding their fan is always going on?

Just returned mine, the wife hated it. She didn't like the matt finish as marks all the time, she didn't like the keys as they aren't as responsive as they should be and finally she hated the mouse pad as it isn't marked clearly where the edges are so was always pressing in the wrong place!

So I'm now on the hunt for another similar bargain, if anybody knows of any (for discerning wife and frugal husband) please let me know!

oh no code expired. Still a great price for these specs. Is it easy to remove the bloatware?

Yes and I didn't think there was too much, seen many systems with much more to remove.

Why not just clean install W10?