Its only £220 ! do you expect it to do the dishes and take the dog for a walk ? :laughing:

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It's true, anyone who doesn't use a 1080p screen finds Word, Excel, the internet, anything at all unusable.

Plus the lecturers can tell if your screen isn't full HD, it's an automatic fail. If you don't believe me, there is not a single person who has a degree before they had 1080p screens on laptops :stuck_out_tongue:

Seriously though, most laptops are 768 resolution and have been for years.

1080p is a nice bonus, not an essential deciding factor, it ranks way down the list of priorities for laptop needs such as processor, RAM, storage space, battery life, reliability, graphics.

Most people won't even check or know about the above let alone the extra resolution. It's a bit like curved or 3D TVs screen, nice to have but not really that important.

I know students will be starting university very soon so here's my input;

I bought a laptop that was pretty much identical in specs (and price to this). I stuck in a ssd which was only 120gb, but I'd recommend 240gb if you can. It did everything, and did everything well. I did graphic design at university, and it would out perform the university's brand new macs. In fact, the reason I bought the laptop was so that I could work in the studio at university because the macs were SO slow and you ran the risk of someone shutting down the mac if you left it unattended, and so lose your work. I know I could have sat at home and done all my university work on my desktop but it was so beneficial going into uni to get work done (I found I got a lot more done compared to staying at home!).

The laptop ran Photoshop, Illustrator, inDesign, all without an issue. It even ran 3ds Max well, and I rendered stuff in times which weren't to be sniffed at for a £220 laptop! People might try and persuade you to spend all your student loan on the latest Mac. Heck, they do look nice and you might be persuading yourself to go for it and treat yourself. But it doesn't mean you will do any better on your course if you spend £1500 more on a laptop. A lot of people I know were immediately in their overdrafts to pay for their macs, and some have left uni with huge overdrafts to pay off. I've left uni with 0 debt (minus student debt...) because a) I'm a tight ****, and b) by second year I was an unsociable nerd because I was too engrossed in my uni work. It meant I had £6k in savings when I left uni thanks to various jobs, and I needed it to cover the costs of traveling to job interviews, moving house to my new job, furnishing the house, car repairs etc. Try to get by at uni with what you can afford; then you can reward yourself once you land yourself with a job after uni :smile:

15.6" (1366 x 768 HD Resolution) according to manufacturer code.

218.49 with NUS, looks good for a budget laptop, heat added

hot thanks. wondering about getting a laptop for my son and good graphics would be great. alternative is to get a desktop and use steam streaming. hmmmm

Just looked at amazon page. while not sure it is for me just yet... this is a great deal for anyone looking. lots of memory. reasonable processor and graphics. well balanced. i have a dell xps 18 i3 and graphics let it down. this should be much better though i normally use cpu benchmark for processors and not sure whicj is best for comparing graphics

https://cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+FX-7500+APU&id=2375

cpu benchmark around 3300. vs 5500 for my i5. so around i3 performance. excellent for this price. anyone know how graphics would compare between this and say my desktop gtx750ti which plays everything great and my atom netbook or i3 dell xps 18 which both use some form of intel graphics hd.

battery life?

oh only 4 hours. half that and it is 2. i half as batteries always die. my netbook has about 8 to start with on atom processor. maybe atom netbooks and a refurbished desktop steam streaming is the way to go.

Decent laptop spec and brand for £230. Heat