First off, the MSI in now £599 so this is now only £50 more expensive. For that £50 you get a fast SSD, not an HDD, you get the latest Kaby Lake CPU, not a Skylake one and a DDR5 GPU, not a DDR3 one.
Also you absolutely RUBBISHED that MSI when it was £549! I'm never met someone who is so consistently inconsistent with their buying advice.

He didn't specify what games and Joe90_guy simply made some suggestions on games that would run well.

You think a game being old makes it not worth playing?

Or you just picking fights on the internet because you have nothing better to do?

Oops! Have been admonished by the wife for being beastly to Picard123.

I told her 'If he's going to dish it out, he needs to learn to take it back!' (I'm old school). Apparently this was the wrong thing to say. Apparently I don't know his personal circumstances or what's going on in his life. What if he has problems? What if someone in his life has problems? What if he is so crushed by my onslaught he throws himself under a bus? His would I feel then??

Reluctantly, I have to say she might have a point. So Picard123, if you're reading this, come back and rejoin our happy throng just so I can get wifey off my case!

Picard will be back here as soon as he's finished his paper round...

still lack of HDMI 2.0 deal breaker for me

Anyone know for sure what the connector for the second 2.5 bay is? Ideally anyone who also got the 7566?

I have a spare hybrid drive I'm planning to add as drive 2 if I can (as mine has 256GB SSD), haven't looked into the size and connection requirements yet.

Currently setting up and doing all the updates - Max Payne 3 takes forever to download from Steam if you're on ADSL (getting fibre later this month).

Not so keen on the running shoe style "detail" on it - would rather have a plain understated laptop, but screen seems fine to me so far (despite some concerns on reviews about it, though it seems that Dell use two different ones, depending on whether its Dell Direct or not, direct being better).

Boots up lovely and quick though :smiley:

No ssd, might add that in the future

IT'S COME :-)

Have you got links to reviews? The reviews on the 6th gen 7000 gaming laptop are generally extremely positive.

My 7566 should arrive tomorrow fingers crossed if my wife is in when they arrive. Any thoughts on the performance etc. so far (and does yours have the SSD or is it HDD/both?)

Laptop has just arrived in mint condition, I'm very pleased :smiley:

The new inspiron 15 7000 reviews are mediocre.shame. £100 off worth having

I had a delivery date of 29/10 (or before) it never arrived. I need to call them on Monday.

Do report back what condition it actually turns up as!

So anyone else getting a notice on the tracking page that it takes 7-12 days for tracking information to show up?!?!?!? Doesn't that rather defeat the point of offering tracking on your order??!?!? Looks as though mine has shipped now though...but no ETA given. Originally showed as 1-3 working days shipping.

Sadly, we'll have to say goodbye to the warring factions for now, because the offer has expired.

I ended up getting the 15 7559 from dell outlet for £572. It is 'scratch and dent' but that's fine by me

I noticed on CPUboss that the 6200U didn't come off better in all areas than the 5200U either.

I read this review of a Dell laptop fitted with a new Kaby Lake 7200U...

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-XPS-13-9360-QHD-i5-7200U-Notebook-Review.178844.0.html

The benchmarking they did suggested that the new generation CPUs were little better, and some tests, worse than the previous generation one. All that glitters is not gold apparently...

Both the OP and your finds are good deals but it’s hard to directly compare the new Dell inspiron 15 7000 with the Inspiron 15 7556, which are aimed at different user groups, though for me, for productivity apps and games and not necessarily using it while out and about, I would spend the extra £50 on the 15 7556, if you can, unless you are after a sleeker design. I'll try my best to explain the differences, below.

The imo attractive looking Dell 15 7000, above, comes with a new dual-core i5 7200U ULA Kabylake CPU, the ULA series are designed to draw little power (in this case, a frugal 15watts; laptops with dual-core ULA series CPUs usually mean reduced heat/lighter/quieter/slimmer profile cases, as compared to gaming laptops where the gaming laptop in question uses a quad-core CPU, though we are expecting quad-core ULA models within the next year) whereas the older generation Skylake but different series i5-6300HQ is a full quad-core part and has 6MB Cache as against 3MB.

The i5-6300HQ is around 30% more powerful in multithreaded applications and a better choice in some recent games that take advantage of four cores; the i5-6300HQ draws 45watts, though, compared to that ULA series CPU’s frugal 15watts), the Passmark score for the quad-core i5-6300HQ is 5727; the seventh generation dual-core i5-7200U is a respectable 4538. Again, though, it's in a sense hard to compare the laptops because, graphics wise, the Inspiron 15 7556 comes with a the better GTX 960M 4GB GDDR5, as against a 940MX with 2GB GDDR5.

One area where the laptops are comparable is when using office applications, some take advantage of multiple cores but quite a lot don't; the single core performance of the new kabylake i5-7200U compares favourably with the single core performance of the Skylake i5-6300HQ. So, if you are looking for an attractively sleek laptop with presumably longer battery life between charges, using mainly basic office applications, rather than looking to take advantage of the i5-6300HQ’s four cores in rendering/encoding, the Dell inspiron 15 7000, at £50 less, is appealing, especially in the looks department, imo!

Here's another link to your find http://www.dell.com/uk/p/inspiron-15-7566-laptop/pd I Liked your post and added heat to the OP's find.

He is one of the biggest trolls on this website, he constantly spews vitriolic comments and personal slander. I'm surprised he's not been banned yet.

Thanks, mine is actually the 7556, not sure of the differences, especially as this has the 256SSD too (the 7559 I posted on before has a 1TB DD so I'd assumed that was the difference in model number. If it is similar, then it doesn't have space for a second drive it looks like, unlike the Asus I'd been considering which is a shame, but I'm getting the 960m over the 950m for around £70 more (as well as bigger SSD) so swings and roundabouts). I got 1% cashback too since they accept Paypal/Amex so that tops up the cashback to ~8% (not quite tracking correct amount at TCB yet, but at least it's showing up)

EDIT: noticed at least one difference - the 7559 notes DDR3 as a drawback, the Dell 7556 spec shows DDR4 on my receipt

I thought you might be interested in this Gaminglaptopjunky review of the exact, self-same Dell you're buying. The review includes a lot of gaming benchmarks and importantly, how to tweak the game settings to get some of the more resource hungry games to play in 1080p.

http://www.gaminglaptopsjunky.com/dell-inspiron-15-7559-review/

Oops! Have been admonished by the wife for being beastly to Picard123.

I told her 'If he's going to dish it out, he needs to learn to take it back!' (I'm old school). Apparently this was the wrong thing to say. Apparently I don't know his personal circumstances or what's going on in his life. What if he has problems? What if someone in his life has problems? What if he is so crushed by my onslaught he throws himself under a bus? His would I feel then??

Reluctantly, I have to say she might have a point. So Picard123, if you're reading this, come back and rejoin our happy throng just so I can get wifey off my case!

Looking at my delivery, on the site they said usually 1-3 working days, but the email says by 8/11!!!! Anyone know how prompt dell usually are?

I use raspberry pi for my gaming! I'm looking for a laptop on behalf of my son

If Half life 3 ever does come out and I can play it even on low settings I'll be happy! I'm a casual gamer really anyway, in terms of time I spend, not necessarily the games I like. Looking forward to playing Max Payne 3 on it, not sure what else I'm going to find to play on it, really a bit out of touch on games I might like.

Think things have been somewhat overtaken by events but I reckon you've made an excellent choice. Have fun playing all those brilliant games that are out there. Just remember there will always be a game that your laptop can't play. It's not a biggie. Enjoy the ones you CAN play.

Not sure if you're replying to me, just saw this, but the Asus 950m on ebuyer is £579.

Whenever I buy a dell I keep a copy of the restore image then just do a vanilla install of the os. A much nicer base, no OEM rubbish to fight with.

There's also this on Amazon though not in stock right now
https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-Notebook-i7-6500-Integrated-Graphics/dp/B01HMZRIGO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1477150921&sr=8-1&keywords=asus+i7

Okay thanks for the advice jazzuk777 and Joe90_guy. I'll be looking at a couple of laptops that you've mentioned and a few other around the £500 price point.

Surely there's an override on the driver update veto somehow? Direct downloading of the vanilla .exe surely must work? anyway - have free returns if I change my mind. And for your extra £30 you get better CPU, GPU and SSD (though no HDD admittedly but I have a NAS so not so much of an issue).

EDIT: oh and this article about the 7556's brethren suggests they made them easier to upgrade which is good news :smiley:http://www.windowscentral.com/how-add-ssd-ram-upgrade-dell-inspiron-15-7559.... anyhow we'll see.

OK, have bought the Dell....looking forward to my new toy :smiley:

Fingers crossed the TCB tracks...

Again, it's only a personal preference but I'd take a Medion over a Dell any day of the week. Dell always makes things so difficult for you. Dell's driver update system blocks out any driver that it doesn't 'approve' which meant for me, never getting GPU driver updates. It was so frustrating having a duff game (eg RAGE) which you knew their was a driver fix for but not bring able to apply it! Also fitting anything new (say another HDD/SSD) to a Medion is a piece of cake whereas on my old Inspirion, you had to remove the keyboard, endless clips, and dig down to do the same thing.

This'd give you £50 to spend on a RAM upgrade and still be just under £500.
http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/P2520LA-XO0956E-OSS-ASUS-P2520LA-XO0956E_1921300.html?gclid=Cj0KEQjwnKzABRDy2pb7nPSazdsBEiQAI4lZQKIPSjwizDrDjuliSvkaC3hzLPmzcwQJGP9rQOfYeN8aAsOK8P8HAQ

Don't know why I'd get that when I could get an Asus with 950m for less and definitely rather a Dell 960m for £30 more?

Is it me or has this thread adopted a far more friendly and cooperative tone since our resident troll fled the field of battle?

I'm pulling the trigger on the 7000 series with the 960m and hoping I get the cashback? Good idea? Certainly ought to be man enough for any games I'm likely to play on it and will future proof a bit in case Half Life 3 appears in the next year or so! (I'm happy not playing on full settings)

Just as an alternative to consider, how about this Medion laptop for £619 with free delivery? If you sign up for their newsletter, I think you might, repeat might, get another 5% off and it might qualify for Quidco/TCB (don't do these so you would have to check this out for yourself).

https://www.medion.com/gb/shop/gaming-laptops-medion-erazer-p6661-15-6-gaming-laptop-30020350a1.html

You get a 15" 1080p screen, a 950m (with 4GB memory, not the usual 2 GB), an i5-6200U, a 128 GB SSD AND a 1 TB Hard drive.

Medion don't have the best reputation but we've had two and they've been great. I wish Aldi would start selling them again because you used to be able to pick them up at big discounts if you knew when to pounce!

I don't think these are the deals for you here. I've seen several i7 laptops for around £500 that would suit you better for less, unless you want the bragging rights of the XPS looks etc. I'll have a quick look in a minute if I get the chance. In fact you could probably even spend less, maybe get an i5 with an SSD as nothing you mention sounds like it will require serious grunt? (maybe programming? not honestly sure about this, but quite possibly not, maybe compiling? not my area of expertise)

Thanks for the reply. Should have mentioned that my friend'd XPS is i5-6200u, 256GB 8GBRAM similar to this Inspiron that's on offer.
Are you suggesting I should get a i7 and 16GB with the Inspiron because that'll cost £799 if I go through Dell? (quite far away from £500) or should I look elsewhere for a laptop and ignore these Dell laptops?

TBH, you should only ever buy laptops like this if you are interested in serious gaming. The discrete GPU you find in these laptops adds a lot to the cost of the laptop and, if you let it, will really hit your battery life. For non-gaming tasks, the integrated GPU you find in most machines will be more than adequate.
I have an ancient 2007 Dell laptop with a lowly AMD integrated chip set that goes through extremely large & complex spreadsheets like a hot knife through butter so you really don't need a particularly beefy laptop to do what you want to do.
The deal is long gone now but a few months back I bought the wife a Medion 14" laptop with a 1080p screen and a diddy SSD for just £179 and despite its meagre spec, this fantastic, little machine has handled everything she's thrown at it!

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/medion-14-laptop-with-1080p-screen-179-medion-shop-2466882

Then you don't need a GPU at all - get an i7 with lots of RAM and you still might get a little change from £500...

Yep, I'm thinking same way, probably i3 min though so it's OK the rest of the time. If Topcashback tracks, then it brings the Gaming Inspiron down from £699 to almost exactly £650 which would be fantastic.....what is the chance of it stacking with the £100 do you reckon? The £100 code is not displayed on TCB site....

EDIT: the 7% TCB expires tomorrow

Hi can someone tell me which laptop would be better for me: this Inspiron @ £649 or a XPS 13 which my friend is for £570?
I'll be using it mainly for programming but also office work (word processing, Excel, PowerPoint and Access), internet browsing and videos.

Regarding CPUs and their impact on gaming, here's another very interesting article from Gaminglaptopjunky...

http://www.gaminglaptopsjunky.com/i5-vs-i7-midrange-gaming-performance-test-gt-850m/

It's a bit old now but the same principles almost certainly still apply. This guy tested an i5 dual core against an i7 quad core. Instinctively you would think the i7 should wipe the floor with the i5 but in reality, the differences are marginal. When I was buying my Asus, these results caused me to opt for the super cheap, dual core Intel 4200H over a more expensive quad core. It's a decision I've never regretted.

The CPU in the MSI is quad core, the Dell is a dual core. Although performace/watt is better in the Dell, the MSI CPU is about 60% faster in multithreaded work loads.

From what I've read, the 950m is a stronger performer than the 940MX so that would swing it for me. I'm still hovering around the Asus I got pasted for posting that's £579 with a 950M but a small SSD (I asked on ebuyer and it has a second slot so can expand and I have an SSHD spare that will do nicely)

It does, thank you. I did see the deal for the msi a week ago

It is confusing I know. Okay, from the top...

There was a deal just over a week ago on HUKD for a 950m 1080p 1TB HDD MSI lappy from EBuyer for £549.99. This has now gone back up to £599.99.
The OP on this thread posted a 940mx 1080p SSD Dell laptop for £649.99. Relative to the MSI at £549.99, I'd go for the MSI but relative to the MSI at £599.99, I might opt for the Dell because of the benefits of the SSD and CPU.
Whatsupmrbear posted a variant on the Dell deal with a 960m card in place of the 940mx for £699.99 (ie £50 extra). Moving up from a 950m to a 960m is a big deal cost-wise; it's hard to be precise but somewhere between £150 - 200 would be my guess. In that light, getting a 960m upgrade for £50 looks a good deal.
Hope that helps.

You might get lucky if EBuyer bring back the MSI GL62 (950m) deal at £549.99 again but I suspect this will be as low as they go. I paid £562 for mine back in February 2015 and in that time, they've dropped that much at all.

...hold am getting confused - £699 for a 960m is good and likely well worth the extra. For less than the original post you could get a 950m - the OP falls between both and is worse value than either in my opinion.

Ah didn't notice that, thanks - still not sure it's a great deal though. Would prefer a 950m card for less.

And I'm hoping my nus card will bring it down to £629.10

Don't you need the discount code PREMIUMUK to get £100 knocked off?

PREMIUMUK Brings it down to £699

Showing as £799 not £699 when I look?

If money is no object and your primary use for the laptop is gaming with the thing plugged into a wall socket, then IMO the 960m variant is worth the extra £50. There is no doubt that the 960m is technically faster than the 940mx (although it will probably be more power hungry too). However you need to understand something about 'faster' that isn't always obvious.

Here's a comparison of the previous generation 860m and 850m from Gaminglaptopjunky...

http://www.gaminglaptopsjunky.com/gtx-860m-vs-gtx-850m/

The cards are basically the same except that one uses fast DDR5 memory while the 850m (the one in my laptop) uses cheaper, slower DDR3 memory. The 860m is on average 30% faster. However what the graphs show is that in ABSOLUTE terms, the biggest improvements in fps are in the easiest games like DOTA2 (which the slower 850m has no problem with). The improvement in fps in resource hungry games like Thief are small and a game that might be unplayable with the 850m is very likely to be unplayable with the 860m! It's this that made me opt for the 850m which at the time was about £150 cheaper. But everyone's different so you might come to a different conclusion.

http://m.dell.com/mt/www.dell.com/uk/p/inspiron-15-7566-laptop/pd?oc=cn56601&model_id=inspiron-15-7566-laptop

Is this one better for £699?

Any reviews for this? Aiui the last gen had poor battery life.

I really fancy this...but I do think it might drop further in price

Picard will be back here as soon as he's finished his paper round...

I think picard has gone to ask for help in pc world

Waiting...tapping fingers...

Oh, can we add that the deal has to be hot; like with serious money off, etc? After all, this site is called HOT UK Deals?

Ooh I thought I saw some tumbleweed... zzzzz

popcorn time

*gets comfy....

Okay. Let's turn this around. You, with your superior knowledge, tell us mere mortals what laptop we should all buy. Tell us where we should buy it and how much we should pay for it. The only proviso that it has to be a current deal for a UK sourced, new laptop. This I have to see!

You still spamming misinformation?

After telling people people to buy a ULV CPU for a gaming PC?? And that a 950M is great for "modern games"?

EPIC FAIL.

I do have my facts right and this isn't being hostile - you seem you be overly sensitive or you just like spamming threads. As I've already said, when someone asks whether a 2016 laptop "can play games", they're not usually asking whether it can play ancient games that had recommended hardware specs from aeons ago. So that the fact that that guy talks about it being able to play Half Life, Wolfenstein, early Far Cry, Portal etc is pretty ridiculous. It can play Chuckie Egg and Pac-Man too. Does that help?

You'd weep into your cornflakes if your brand new £749 Dell couldn't play the type of old games that that old guy mentioned.

I really like the design of this latest iteration of 7000 series. Wish my workplace started issuing these.

Get your facts right. Maybe one game he mentioned is more than 10 years old. And all are classics. Many people are looking for a laptop that is good enough to play Minecraft and indie titles. Which this Dell will with ease despite not being a gaming laptop. There's still market for laptops like this.
The MSI in the other deal was marketed as a gaming laptop. Whether or not it meets your definition of a gaming laptop or not.
What is a better deal is subjective. And there's no need to get hostile if you don't agree with somebody else's opinion.

Arguing with you is like arguing with a teenager. There can only be one 'right' answer (yours of course!), you always cite the most extreme example to make your point and you point blank refuse to see any merit whatsoever in anything anyone else says.

First off, it doesn't matter that the Half-life games are old; they are still brilliant games. I played the updated Black Mesa version recently and was reminded just how good these games were. Second, Wolfenstein: TNO & Metro Redux are two years old, not twenty. Third, 'Cyrostasis' might be a seven year old game now but when it first came out, it was so far ahead of things in terms of its implementation of PhysX, that it was virtually unplayable at max settings on all but the most expensive desktop GPUs. It's taken a few years for laptop GPUs to catch up but it's truly beautiful now you can play it as the designers originally intended.

Finally, if you're going to quote me back to myself, do be a good fellow and try and get the words right. People on not 'on spectrum', they are 'on THE spectrum', meaning they display behaviour indicative of autism or Asperger's syndrome. A bit like yourself really...

Even if it has a half eaten Apple logo on it? :man:

Quoted for truth.

You don't ask if a 2016 laptop can "play games" if you're talking about games from 10-20 years ago. Any £749 2016 can do that.

He didn't specify what games and Joe90_guy simply made some suggestions on games that would run well.

You think a game being old makes it not worth playing?

Or you just picking fights on the internet because you have nothing better to do?

Apparently there is a Inspiron 14 7000 series and it is only in India, not sure will it be here but I'm not a gamer so 14" with this spec will be perfect for me, voted hot!

Those games are ancient. Half-Life is almost 20 years old for chisakes. What are you going to come up with next? Windows Minesweeper? Do you really think that he was asking about whether it can play games from 10+ years ago? :laughing:

First off, the MSI in now £599 so this is now only £50 more expensive. For that £50 you get a fast SSD, not an HDD, you get the latest Kaby Lake CPU, not a Skylake one and a DDR5 GPU, not a DDR3 one.
Also you absolutely RUBBISHED that MSI when it was £549! I'm never met someone who is so consistently inconsistent with their buying advice.

I've played enjoyable games on far worse computers than this one. You won't be able to play several of the most modern games at 1080p with every setting cranked up to max but some of these resource hungry games (eg Thief, No Man's Sky) aren't that great and IMO aren't worth bothering with. This laptop should handle many of the Assassin's Creed games, Alan Wake, all the Half-Life series, Wolfenstein: The New Order, the early Far Cry games, Crysis I & II, Mafia II, Metro:Redux, Portal I & II with ease in 1080p.

Oh, and don't forget Cryostasis, a personal favourite.

The MSI that was £549 in the other thread is the better deal. £100 less than this as well.

I think this is a good deal. There are a lot of folks out there that obviously would love a laptop with a super fast graphics card but will baulk at the prices you have to pay. Even a last generation 960m laptop (a fairly modest card) with a 1080p screen will set you back at least £800! Some of the new Nvidia 1080 laptops cost around £2400 and I can think of lots of things I'd prefer spending that amount of money on.

Looks good, spec wise too, just wish they'd start putting 1050/1060m's in laptops already.

good spec and voted hot but I'd really like a touchscreen now. Keeping a close eye on the new stuff coming out as it'll mean the 6th gen stuff should be discounted.

I'd recommend you to extend any warranty!