The blue one is £249 if anyone is interested (same spec)

edit: Sorry, it seems over the course of the day, the price jumped to £259 :disappointed:

My son (primary school age) wants a laptop for Christmas to play Minecraft, would this be suitable?

Thanks

unless you wait for black Friday about 1 month away

https://cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+A8-7410+APU&id=2537

2596 benchmark... probably comparable to an i3.

will check out graphics...

3D Mark 06 (CPU)




A8 7410

2,936

not really sure how comparable this is

the website I got it from compared it to an i3 and i5 but I want to compare it to a 750ti which is my desktop gaming card. I don't own minecraft so can't help question.

anyone else know more about graphics?

battery life allegedly 7 hours which is good as even if half this then can play xcom 2 on the train when going marketing!

I don't need it, but can never resist looking at these deals!

Graphics

The integrated Radeon R5 should be similar to the Beema based Radeon R5 GPU with 128 shaders. Only a few current games (as of 2014) are thus playable in low settings, but older and less demanding titels should run flawlessly.


http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-A-Series-A8-7410-Notebook-SoC.144751.0.html

has some benchmarks...

but not really fps for gaming... :disappointed:

Is this better as got an Intel chip and SSD?

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/lenovo-i3-5005u-15-laptop-windows-10-128gb-ssd-4gb-ram-hdmi-269-97-delivered-saveonlaptops-2532490

I'm after a laptop for the kids xmas (11 & 10) to do homework on and hopefully to take them through the next 3 years or so. They'll want to play games but not the latest, just playable ones from steam will do. Wondering if this or the Lenovo is better? Or wait till Black Friday as no rush?

​Good of you to share with us James. Appreciated

​the cpu benchmark on i3 5005u is 2897. so very similar.

the amd laptop here has 8gb ram. that will massively boost performance vs 4gb on the intel.

intel has ssd which will boost speed too but I cannot comment as don't have one.

i also don't know about graphics comparison bit in theory amd puts a bit more effort on graphics

i haven't compared battery life which is key for me

but on the memory. .. i would pick the amd... but maybe the other one can be upgraded memory wise. on my phone at work so cannot research fully sorry.

john - I posted in the wrong room - if we believe the battery specs - the amd is better (will have to confirm with actual independent reviews from pc mags).

the i3 claims to have 3-4 hours battery life. this has 7. given they will decline by 50%, this makes the amd much much better in my view

Ok cheers, I'm in two minds whether to one like this, gamble on Black Friday or just let them borrow mine. I'll have a think ta

Oos

​For 95% of people using basic office apps, email and Internet "any cpu + ssd" is better than "any even much better cpu + hdd".. Especially if comparing modern laptop class CPU's..

Hi any suggestions on a good laptop please, I only have a budget of £200-£250. :smirk:
Thanks

​one with an ssd