The wife wanted a cheap laptop with a 1080p screen primarily to make photobooks and do light computing tasks. I found one recently on HUKD (also from Medion) for £229 but just as I was about order it, it flagged up as out-of-stock. Grrrr!
Anyway last week Medion dropped the price of their E4213 14" laptop from £249 to £179. It's pretty low spec; a Celeron CPU, small 32GB SSD, just 2GB of RAM and no HDD but it does have a 1080p matt screen.
So I took a chance and bought it. It arrived the next day (great considering it's free delivery). It's actually not a bad bit of kit; it's light, quick enough and the screen is fab. Plus you get a two year warranty. It also boots up into Windows 10 faster than my Asus which cost three times the price! There's also an empty HDD drive bay available so I bought a 500GB HDD off Amazon for £31, plopped it in and it works fine.
So I know this isn't everyone's idea of a laptop but if you're on a budget but still want a 1080p screen, this might be worth a look.
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3guesses
19 Jun 1614#24
Wow, she sounds like a cracker! Which website did you get her from?
8-)
SClub
19 Jun 164#30
Cool story bro.
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xela333
19 Jun 16#1
Heat, looks like an excellent deal to me.
miaomiaobaubau
19 Jun 16#2
is there an extra slot for the memory??? hot
Joe90_guy to miaomiaobaubau
19 Jun 161#5
I suspect you can get at the RAM slots to add more memory (this was my plan as I have a spare 2GB stick) but you will have to take the entire back of the laptop off to do so. There's no 'easy access' panel Iike I've had on other laptops. TBH, I'm surprised that the machine is as quick as it is with just 2GB of RAM. Maybe Windows 10 does a better job at handling resources. Wifey hasn't complained yet so I think I might leave put off any RAM addition until she does!
benjammin316
19 Jun 16#3
Great price for a fhd screen, perfect for browsing and odd jobs
ELVIS_THE_PELVIS to benjammin316
19 Jun 162#8
Odd jobs?
SClub
19 Jun 16#4
I have the aforementioned version of this laptop, which I'm assuming is the same (other then extra ram, disk and pentium processor). Build is fine and the IPS screen excellent with great viewing angles of course :smiley:
Joe90_guy to SClub
19 Jun 16#7
Hi again SClub! When you PM'd me a few weeks back recommending the E4213 (with the HDD and extra RAM) I got online with my credit card ready in hand to buy one only to see they had run out if stock. Very frustrating!! However the lesser version of the E4213 at £179 is still pretty good value. Again thanks for the recommendation...
sradmad
19 Jun 161#6
good find op, heat added
hcc27
19 Jun 16#9
Great price for a 1080p screen. Use an SD card or even better, stick one of those 30quid 128GB SSDs that have been doing the rounds here lately and you'll end up with a laptop suitable for most day to day tasks.
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Dave_dave69
19 Jun 16#10
That's interesting - usually if you have an SSD in a laptop you have to use the optical drive bay for another HD.
(I notice they describe it as memory but I think they mean storage)
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Anyway last week Medion dropped the price of their E4213 14" laptop from £249 to £179. It's pretty low spec; a Celeron CPU, small 32GB SSD, just 2GB of RAM and no HDD but it does have a 1080p matt screen.
So I took a chance and bought it. It arrived the next day (great considering it's free delivery). It's actually not a bad bit of kit; it's light, quick enough and the screen is fab. Plus you get a two year warranty. It also boots up into Windows 10 faster than my Asus which cost three times the price! There's also an empty HDD drive bay available so I bought a 500GB HDD off Amazon for £31, plopped it in and it works fine.
So I know this isn't everyone's idea of a laptop but if you're on a budget but still want a 1080p screen, this might be worth a look.
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(I notice they describe it as memory but I think they mean storage)