Please tell us where we can buy a 120GB SSD for £30 now, (hint, you can't)

Lots of people quick to criticise. Not so many offering alternatives. If you're going to yap, back up your whinging with some proof.

Tell me about it, I'm 30 and my eye sight is going and my joints are already starting to ache.

That's a deal breaker IMO. Unless you're an elderly person who will benefit from the larger fonts, larger icons etc, it's an anachronism in 2017 on 15.6" panel.

Looks good specs for the price, sure it's 'only' 1366x768 but it's got the all important SSD drive and a half decent CPU. Have some heat my fine fellow.

£300 for 4gb ram is pretty much standard. not bad for the other specs but really should include 6gb ram otherwise the i3 is wasted.

That's a deal breaker IMO. Unless you're an elderly person who will benefit from the larger fonts, larger icons etc, it's an anachronism in 2017 on 15.6" panel.

Pretty awful spec all round, would expect much better. People forget that this SSD is now worth about £30

You become old at 25 so I would put it out there that the majority of us fit in to the 'elderly' bracket ever so snugly.

I bought Mrs Loyal a 2017 iPad the other day, I am in fact making this contribution from it, but it's pony god I hate touchscreen and just love my mice so am on the lookout for a new laptop :smiley: anyone familiar with this Laptop Outlet?

Tell me about it, I'm 30 and my eye sight is going and my joints are already starting to ache.

Ready to pull the trigger on a £250 - £300 laptop - which one to buy ....

I think it's quite decent for the money. I paid the same amount for a similar spec but much older i3 Samsung and it's been fine. For normal users 4Gb allows a fair number of apps open, the SSD makes them run pretty quick, and the resolution has never bothered me (although I would pay slighly more if there was a higher resolution version).

The jury is out on the DVDRW drive, on the one hand I like the idea of burning DVD's from the laptop, but on the other hand I am trying to remember last time I actually did that! My current laptop has a second hard drive in the DVD bay, and I've not missed the ability to read or write DVD's.

Then clearly this isn't the deal for you and not for me either but the fact is that these lower res screens are cheap and plentiful (clerly there is a factory is China churning these out for a few dollars which is why every sub £300 laptop seems to have one) - £300 isn't much for a laptop that is above bottom of the range (I'd not call it mid range either) but it's better than the very cheapest and with current increased prices this seems a fair price to me.

I removed my DVD drive and fitted a hard drive caddy, I used the 500Gb drive I swapped out for the SSD and put all the movies on that. The kids did watch a movie on it, however I discovered the volume of sound was too low to listen to using the built in speakers! Oh that reminds me I need to add a deal for speakers I found!

I must dealt with a few hundred laptops a month via the refurbishment business I work for and this is the first time I've seen an Intel i3-6006U, which means I just haven't come across a laptop using that CPU yet. You can always learn something new in this game :smiley:

https://ark.intel.com/products/91157/Intel-Core-i3-6006U-Processor-3M-Cache-2_00-GHz

Not sure about the joints but I been wearing bins since me early 20's or perhaps even late teens.

You can't get Armani contacts or Ray-Ban laser nonsense can you, I'm all for Joe 90 Pride :sunglasses:

I don't give out that information on this forum. Sometimes I will post links to other I.T. refurbishers and I don't want to be associated with any form of self promotion.

Lots of people quick to criticise. Not so many offering alternatives. If you're going to yap, back up your whinging with some proof.

Move along muggins.. you can easily used on ebay

Used 120GB SSD are selling for round about £38 delivered on eBay. For the last 2 months I've been monitoring prices on there. £45+ new, £35-38 for a used one.

Yup that's the illogical HUKD voting for you!

Well said, when I look for a product I search for it on HUKD and so tired of having to wade through pointless comments on £300 PCs for example "This doesn't have 4K, cold". "If you add an extra 2 grand you can get a i15". "This £50 laptop doesn't have HDMI, cold!".

Its so annoying. Like people leave comments just for the hell of it.

But you can get Kingdian 120GB drives new on Amazon for 40 quid though right?

Would definitely purchase if it was £250, looking for a cheap laptop with similar specs.

Would definitely purchase if it was £250, looking for a cheap laptop with similar specs.

Yes you can if you want to, that's still not £30 like IamLegendFam said though, he had to resort to suggesting we buy second hand £30 SSD's from ebay rather than admit you can't buy a new SSD for £30.

Ultimately does this laptop deal represent a good deal or a hot deal? I'd say that yes it does when taking into account the price, specification and the lack of having to buy a second hand SSD from ebay :smile:

Camelcamelcamel suggest the price has dropped but will no doubt go back up.

Would this laptop run Football Manager 17 comfortably?

Different people want different things from a laptop. I would argue that a nice screen (and a touchscreen) and a decent amount of RAM are much more import than CPU speed (an SSD should be a given nowadays). This laptop has a fast CPU, but what would you use that for? It has no decent GPU, it has little RAM, and a very small SSD.

For a little more money, you could get a full HD touchscreen, probably with an AMD CPU, and 8GB of RAM and a 240GB SSD. Personally, I do not want to use a laptop without QHD screen - it just makes reading so much easier. But those are rare, and clearly more expensive.

Sorry to be a moany pain in the butt, but I posted a laptop with the same processor, double the RAM for 30 quid more and got ice cold.

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Yes this has an SSD but its also only 128GB, so theres a space for speed tradeoff
Half this forum don't know a deal when it smacks them square in the face, truth be told. Heat for the price.

That wasa good deal - would have jumped on it if I'd seen it. I can only think some people on HUD think it's funny to vote down a good deal ... happens too often for it to be erroneous

yes it's a herd mentality I think, a few cold votes then others follow suit....add in the secret sauce HUKD voting formula and you get out of whack results.

Yeah move along spannerzone , I can buy a Mercedes second hand cheaper then a new new one, sheesh. :smirk:



Although It probably wouldn't move as fast as yours :confused: