Similar spec to the new £1750 MacBook

Unless I've missed something... the V110 you mention is actually the superior machine.
It is a Skylake processor which scores higher in Passmark and should be more efficient. It also uses DDR4 RAM.

You can buy that model for £339.97 from CCL

because 8gb 2133mhz ram, 256gb PCIE storage, 2560 by 1600p, MacOS, 1 year AppleCare and a full metal build is similar to this /s

Most shops will try shift unwanted laptops before black friday. Better just waiting.

Expensive I'd say. Get a refurbished laptop like this: Your text here

Half the price and if you want Win 10 use this free upgrade: Your text here

Yeah but has a Unicorn p*ssed on the keyboard? That's where the money goes, shipping costs to get Unicorns from Narnia isn't cheap.

price jumped to 370... cold

This is business model, there is big difference between the business and home models. The overheating is mostly on home "gaming" ones with dedicated graphics, but all the brands are suffering more or less in the same way(different processors and graphics from business models) . I still have HP's which are 7-8 years old and still working perfectly(business models). Also you get Windows 10 Pro with it. I got one for somebody and the quality is quite good for the price.

"completely"

I avoid HP like the plague. A huge amount of their laptop models have design flaws and will often over heat and fail within 2 years. In fact I used to buy about 10 HP's a week on eBay listed as faulty, just to fix the overheating problems and resell them again. I will never buy one again knowing how bad they are. If you go for the dedicated graphics version, I will give it 18 months lifetime max.

Funny that, at work we only stock Lenovo's due to problems with almost all other brands. Never had a Lenovo completely fail like other laptops.

All lenovo I have had has broken, all samsung I have had is still working!

I think this can be better as it has a Full HD screen and you can upgrade to SSD as they are cheap now:
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/hp-250-g5-core-i5-6200u-2.3-ghz-4gb-500gb-dvd-rw-15.6-inch-windows-7-profes-w4n13ea/version.asp?refsource=Ldadwords&gclid=COmKx-COqNACFRHgGwodcNQA_Q

No, this is not a gaming laptop. The website doesn't even mention the graphics GPU so it'll be some on-board thing, maybe Intel HD5000.. You might get away with WOW on on the lowest settings (not sure about DOTA) .. If you want a gaming laptop to play games on mid-night you might be looking at double this price.

can this run WoW Legion and Dota2 on mid-high settings? I need a a laptop that can!

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care to show us some none U series cpus which are much more powerful for a decent price? I won't hold you to the ''extra 50 pounds'' I'll give you £500, curious to see a current CPU either broadwell or skylake none U series

i have one, it's still great

worst laptop i ever bought
cheap build
slows down within few weeks of use
battery life get to a mere 1 hour and a half after a week use

i now only stick to hp, sony and dell

Can experts advice on this ?
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/lenovo-ideapad-300-core-i7-6500u-8gb-1tb-15.6-inch-windows-10-laptop-80q7009fuk/version.asp

Care to elaborate?

This is why the general consumer/public is sheep not getting at you but its not the resolution as much as the panel but consumers just see bigger numbers as being better not the build quality

I was shocked recently when my 5 year old (used at the time) monitor which was a cheap brand outdid my new branded monitor.

You're in luck I've just done exactly that. xHamster.

can't say i've heard of a laptop that doesn't come with a drive already installed...and OS missing maybe. you could try and get a customised laptop and choose the basic/ cheapest option and swap them around...

Guys I’m looking for somewhere to buy a new laptop where I can just add my own SSD, of course I can buy any new laptop but was wondering if I could save some money by using my own drive?

if you look back the first mention of apple seems to be from a windows fanboy. all i was adding is there is more to a laptop then just spec like customer service. find me another company that will replace a mother board for free 4 years after the warranty has ended.
Also i am reading this thread because i am looking for 2 cheap laptops for christmas gifts. hence why i am looking at this windows thread
Has anyone seen any reviews for the V110 ? i can find very little info on it seems to be marketed as a business laptop in the us

you get what you payed for..I've seen this laptop..
the screen quality utter rubbish, so poor.
the whole laptop is so plasticy and low quality almost embarrassing to use.
avoid.
buy only if you really can't afford something with better quality.

I'm not an Apple fanboy. I'm just trying to explain that a £350 Lenovo laptop (or any Windows laptop below £900) will not compare to the new MacBook. People seem to become so angry when others don't agree with them - it's technology for heaven's sake! This is great deal for what it is and most people would be fine with it but saying it's on the same level as a MacBook? No way.

Yawn - Apple fanboys trying to justify insanely high prices on a Windows laptop thread, as usual. Dull, dull, boring, boring. If Apple is so great why do they even bother to read the Windows threads?

Lol another anti-apple thread in a post on a Lenovo B50, thats bonkers trying to even compare ..the Lenovo's are cheap workhorses but you get what you pay for..This one doesn't look to bad, but it's based on the same model as some of it's cheapest range, expect poor plastic finish etc..I'd check reviews first. We have some older Lenovo's we look after and they are ok but very cheap finish & slow.
Also remember not all SSD's are the same the new Apple Macbook Pro uses PCIe/NVMe SSD, (latest M.2 tech very expensive) they claim sequential read/write speeds of 3.1Gbps and 2.1Gbps per second, that would be the fastest ever!! As Apple have always lead in the new M.2 memory tech I'm sure it will be fast. The Lenovo in comparison witha standard SATA SSD I guess would be max 300-500 MBps ( a lot slower) , that's still good compared to a normal HD 115-125 MBps..

Good deal

Do you have an example of an equivalent windows machine which is about half that price?

its an older model with last yrs intel i5 ,aint that good a saving . i picked up an lenovo T450 intel i5 6200u and 8gb ram .256 ssd.ultra book.with full hd and touch for £380 on e-bay. bargain !!

That's interesting. It claims that U on a processor name stands for "Ultra-low power" whereas I've always understood it to mean "Underpowered"! :confused:

ah ok.. tbh, I cant be bothered to carry around an external drive, so may stick with the 1tb HHD.

I don't like apple products.

Exactly! Everyone says that Macs are overpriced (which they really can be) but you really cannot complain about the service provided with the cost. AppleCare, updates (lasting speed) and consumer-compatibility (few viruses, lasting years (literally), ease of use and integrated iOS and tvOS ecosystem) is what makes the extra money worth it for Apple computers in the long. Sure that £1750 cost looks ridiculous for an i5 with 8gb ram and 256gb storage, in a few years time it will run circles around today's 12gb ram i7s and still be prepared for the future (USB-C, OLED Touch Bar etc.). The deal I'm commenting on is great, but I'd rather buy one of Apple's Macs that will last me years than get this Lenovo laptop that will require repairs after some years with no little to no support of Lenovo.

And generally apple are pretty good after the one year service
I had the motherboard on my 2011 Mac replaced a few weeks back for free even though the Mac is way out of warranty same with a 13inch that my girlfriend has that had an issue with the charging circuit was replaced fixed for free even though the Mac was out of warranty

Oooh, oooh... I know this...

Its, err, hold on... Yes, thats it... Ah, its gone.

Nope, can't remember...

Which Windows machine has a Touch Bar, fingerprint scanner, full metal build, 1 year guaranteed service, 2560 by 1600p wide colour gamut display, 8gb 2133mhz ram, 256gb PCIE storage, front stereo speakers, giant glass trackpad, Intel Core i5, Thunderbolt 3, a backlit keyboard and 10 hours of battery life - all in a thin and light profile for around £875?

Shipping costs to the USA will be expensive

You read it wrong, like most electronics it could technically fail at any time.. SSDs are very reliable and less prone to damage due to accidental knocks as this can quite easily kill a HDD. I believe SSDs have a maximum read/write lifespan but it should far exceed your own usage.

No he didn't say that although SSD fail rates have improved over the years and are more on a par with HDDs nowadays.

CPUBoss doesn't really bear out what you say - there is a difference in performance but a mobile i5 CPU is still fairly capable, the gap isn't nearly as large as your post implies. Ironically some of the older U CPUs are slightly better in some areas than later gnerations!

so you're saying a SSD will never fail, or did I read that wrong?

It's not about size it's about speed. SSDs use chips, a bit like SD cards and USB sticks, they don't have any moving parts, greatly reduced seek time... resulting in a much, much faster PC.. SSD HDDs are the single greatest improvement brought to computers in recent years.

Obviously if you require up to 1TB disk space you may need to weigh up whats important to you, personally I would never buy a computer without SSD and if I needed more space i'd buy an external drive.

Quality over quantity. It's the difference between a sports car and a kombi van.

It's not even remotely close to being equivalent though

***ashkayuk*** What did you think of the SSD relative to a traditional hard drive, please?

theres an Levono knocking about on Tesco Direct for 449 which seems canny high I5 Spec.

http://www.tesco.com/direct/lenovo-500-15acz-156-amd-a10-12gb-ram-1tb-hdd-white-laptop/144-2421.prd?skuId=144-2421

Is there anything better around atm? Looking to buy online or instore ASAP

PS: not too up on SSD, whats advantages does a 256GB SSD or example, have over A HHD 4 times that @ 1TB?

looks good. getting one for my mom.

Depends what you mean by 'better'.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-differences-between-U-M-QM-MQ-and-HQ-processors-of-Intel

There also used to be 'Y' series, think they were used in the surface pro's.

Its a balance between battery life and out right power.Gaming laptops will have MQ series processors, ultrabooks U series.

Its only 2 core processor thats why cheap!

Which processor suffixes are the better for a laptop? M/U any others?

And I would never argue otherwise. I have a gen 1 i5, and it is indeed quite decent. But the modern version (both U and M series) is designed for low power consumption, not power, so it is actually just marginally faster. Doing real work on these is always going to be a compromise.

Don't be silly, this laptop will run rings around most applications! I was using a gen 1 i5 until a couple of months ago for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and more, it never skipped a beat until the screen went on it.

Same here. Sent one back with faulty trackpad and got accused of not sending battery. Eventually they gave in and replaced it but took a few weeks and a few calls to credit card company.

Cobblers, this is perfectly adequate with an ssd for a responsive laptop for most day to day use.

I wonder whether prices are already going up - after all, the laptop market works in USD. I got a similar laptop, but with an AMD CPU, 2 years ago. I don't bother with a DVD ROM, since I have a USB drive for the 3 times that I might need it. HP is a safe bet: good reliability, reasonable specs, affordable prices.

Thanks, just found the post for that. Unsurprisingly, it got to 1272 degrees! A mega hot deal like that probably shouldn't be considered the norm. But it has at least helped me to decide to wait for now...

Edit - seems to be about £500 right now

​Got a couple of weeks ago new HP 250 G5 for £400 with i5 6200u, 250GB SSD, 8GB RAM, full HD screen from Ebay. Was the same price online in another shop, can't remember the name now. Great specs for good price, but the screen is dull a bit. Going to take out DVD ROM and put my spare 1 TB HDD instead.

I've not been able to find that sort of spec around the £400 mark, or am I missing something obvious??

Except that this is is an i5-5200U from the U series for ultraportables and tablets, which does not provide the same power as a proper laptop CPU. It is ok for light use, Office, browsing, video, casual games, organising pictures, but not much more.

This laptop is built to a price point, and I would not consider it an especially good deal. I would expect: Full HD touch screen, 8GB of RAM, and at least a 240GB SDD. You might end up paying 50 pounds more, but it does make a big difference.

If disk space is an issue for anybody, dump the CD/DVD drive and replace with a caddy with HDD.

Good find - it's all about SSDs

​It's equivalent to a windows machine about half that price though

Have to agree - any deal changed materially after the first vote should be spammed.

still a great deal nonetheless

Similar spec to the new £1750 MacBook

I didn't change anything. The "get deal" button goes to the item described in the title (B50-50). Anyway, I take your point, cheers. Will do it differently next time.

I’m guessing it was a cookie chase problem, but the V110 is better. But you should have just made another post instead of changing the laptop and moving it to the link description. HUKD should not let people do that, i would remove my like if i could. I liked it for V110 not B50-50

They haven't done anything. I didn't know which was better and simply posted the link to the B50-50, whilst also giving the link to the V110 in the original post.

Both are still there, so don't know why this has been expired. Don't know how to un-expire.

I need a laptop for xmas for my son who is off to uni next year to study engineering so needs to have a spec that will run solidworks, any ideas?

Not the same laptop anymore. look at the laptop name in the link and what laptop it links you to.

The link looks like it redirects to another laptop now the Lenovo B50-50 not the Lenovo V110. As far as i can tell the new laptop has 2.20 GHz instead of the 2.30 GHz V110 has And DDR3 SDRAM instead of DDR4 SDRAM as well as the slight design change.

They seem to have totally removed the v110 from the site. I bought mine from https://www.cclonline.com/product/217472/80TL0010UK/Laptops/Lenovo-V110-15-6-inch-Notebook-Core-i5-6200U-2-3GHz-4GB-1x4GB-128GB-SSD-DVD-RW-WLAN-BT-Webcam-Windows-10-Home-64-bit-Intel-HD-Graphics-520-Black/NOT03295/

remember they have different versions of the v110. You want to look for the SSD 128gb version. kind of a **** thing what laptopsdirect just did.

not a macbook cold brrr

Would this play FM17 ok? Also what are the hinges like on Lenovo? My current laptop is about 4 yrs old and is a Lenovo G50 and both hinges have gone meaning we have to replace. Seems a common issue on G50s so wondering if common on most Lenovos. Saying that I use a think pad for work and never had an issue but they seem pretty solid.

Plus do you think on Black Friday/cyber Monday there will be a lot better deals so worth waiting till then?

I bought this for £331 from cclonline last week before the price went up to £349.97 a day ago. Feel free to ask me any questions.

So far the cons are its audio isnt the best as its very low because some one thought its a good idea to put the speaker on the bottom of the laptop and its a really huge finger fingerprint magnet.

Let me just add i'm pretty happy with this as its a super fast laptop for that price with SSD, DDR4 and i5 for a great price.
Out of the box with the os and adjust to actual space you get around 100gb with what i wanted installed now i have about 60GB free.

Id like 8GB but you can upgrade it for some extra i suppose. It might not be a dealbreaker for some.

I agree but the problem is that the market doesn't. This screen is typical of the vast majority of laptops that are seen in shops & online. This is a good buy at this price - not what I would buy but then I don't mind spending more.

Please show us the better screen at this price point.

Can't agree more. We get higher res on bargain tablets. What's going on?

Great spec for the price, I would pull the trigger for the wife but needs full HD to be perfect.

How does this one compare?

http://www.very.co.uk/acer-aspire-e-15-amd-a9-processor-8gb-ddr4-ram-1tb-hard-drive-128gb-ssd-156-inch-laptop-with-optional-microsoft-office-365-home-black/1600097932.prd

Seems a great deal for £400??

I got the probook g450 from saveonlaptops. dont want to say as the company's customer service is rubbish. but I think thats a better deal. excellent laptop.

Had trouble with laptops direct in the past

Most shops will try shift unwanted laptops before black friday. Better just waiting.

This was £320 at saveonlaptops a week ago, can't check right now but might still be!

This is also a very good deal. I ordered this today:

http://www.very.co.uk/lenovo-ideapad-510s-intelreg-coretrade-i5-processor-8gb-ram-128gb-ssd-storage-14-inch-full-hd-laptop-with-optional-microsoft-office-365-white/1600102824.prd?_requestid=43794

Looking on other sites, it seems that 4 hours is correct. Potentially a deal breaker for me.

Not sure why my comment suggesting the V110 is superior has disappeared.

Unless I've missed something... the V110 you mention is actually the superior machine.
It is a Skylake processor which scores higher in Passmark and should be more efficient. It also uses DDR4 RAM.

You can buy that model for £339.97 from CCL

It's a Logitech M105. Just an £8 mouse, nothing special.

The quickest of those laptops is the Lenovo V110-15ISK.

£338 here - https://www.pcworldbusiness.co.uk/catalogue/item/P241697P

Also looking for a new laptop. Difficult to know how much to spend when all I plan to do is write on it and browse internet :disappointed:

Fair point. Was just asking as I couldn't see it. Still can't to be honest (on my mobile)

It's right next to the price. I wouldn't let a free mouse sway your decision, a mouse is super cheap to get.

That's an i3.

Thanks. I'm looking at your link on a mobile, and can't see anything about a free mouse??
Also, your link says a battery life of 3-4 hours, whereas the original post says 6 hours. Any idea which is correct??

This one seems to be the same model for £30 less and a free mouse thrown in.

Had a look. Good at the price or look at dell outlet and be patient

Not full HD but perfectly acceptable at that price, everything else looks good

Skimped on the screen resolution but not bad for what it is.

good price for an i5, this price is normally i3 territory.