I have been looking around for a new laptop and this pops up and seems extremely good. £900 and you get 1060 that is mad. Every other 1060 laptop I've seen is well over £1200++.

Haven't decided whether I should get this or not. Any comments on this deal and Medion Erazer products in general?

This is hot. If only it had been an i7.

Comments might be useful from last time it was posted in Nov 2016:

hotukdeals.com/dea…935

so Medion Erazer products arent too good then?

So find one I want on outlet then ask customer service for more money off? They recently had 25% off but I missed it so maybe you're right and I'll get one for about £950

Full spec from Medion's own website...

medion.com/gb/…tml

Note that it's on for £1,149 there so this Argos deal is £250 cheaper.

The screen is TN, not IPS, but a good one according to some of the folks who bought this laptop last time it was on HUKD. The plus point is it's a full 6GB 1060 GPU, not the common or garden 3GB version you see on other laptops.

Shame it's 17 inch, Would have bought this if it was 15.

You can't upgrade the CPU in a laptop. This CPU is clocked at just 2.3ghz, which may in fact lead to the CPU becoming the bottleneck.

Never ceases to amaze me how ignorant people are.

This. False economies in laptops can bite you in the bum. This CPU already ranks (slightly) lower than my 4 year old desktop CPU. Pairing such a card with that CPU feels like a bit of a mismatch

Now that was a deal.

CPU here is fine. It will run any modern game in high settings. GPU is far more important for like 90-95% of games. GTX1060 should be up to the task of almost all titles at 1080p high settings.

I was tempted by the recent £599 Omen 1050 deal but in the end decided against it. Whilst the 1050 GPU was way better than the Nvidia 850m on my current laptop, I didn't feel like it was a big enough leap to justify a £599 spend. This on the other hand is a big leap forward and £899 for any 1060 laptop is a very good price. I might pop into Argos and ask if I can look at one first. In the past 17" laptops always seemed 'too big' but I'm open to persuasion.
BTW, just to avoid unnecessary comments, I'm absolutely not interested in a desktop (too big) or an i7 (not necessary for the games I run). I've been gaming on laptops since 2007 and know what I'm looking for thank you.

I purchased a high end gaming laptop last year. It doesn't compare to a tower pc of the same spec though. Gets hot and noisy with the fans when you push it too hard and it will barely run an oculus rift that a supposedly lower spec graphics card in my pc runs fine.

I bought the X7843 on deal not so long ago. That was an i7 with an IPS screen, but only came with GTX980M. The deals never seem to have all the good bits in at once!

Can't say enough about the laptop though, make sure you activate windows and login with your Microsoft account before clean installing windows.

You know nothing about CPUs xD

Says IPS screen on the medion website, so this is perfect. It's either this or a Alienware 13 1060 which I'm waiting for one to come in stock in the factory outlet. Hmmm?

Or this debenhamsplus.com/p/1…HAQ

The outlet offer some good deals. Is the performance okay? And the aesthetic?

I'd say the build quality will be better on the Alienware and higher resell value but a 17 screen on this is tempting for that price.

Battery Duration..... 4 hours

Laptop CPUs aren't my forté, I'll give you that! Only really interested in desktop ones, where there's none of this throttling nonsense to save battery life.

I'm not a fan of 17" laptops, way too big for my liking. The CPU is last gen, you'll fill up the SSD pretty quickly and some people will want to upgrade the RAM. If this had a 1050 in it, no one would look twice at it. However with the 1060 and full 6GB you're going to be really future proofing your gaming needs. You wont get a better graphics card for the price though!

One thing to note, the specs linked to the Median website in the comments above might not be exactly the same as the Argos model. There's no mention of USB-C on the Argos website so they might have some old stock that may differ slightly. That's only my speculation though :smile:

Ive seen the x7848. The one with 1070 and i7 going for 900£ on gumtree. Idk if they dodgy or w/e but risk reward blah blah

I got mine for £750 last year (good old topcashback), it will happily play GTA V but I needed to replace the virus checker with AVG (or actually, any decent one)

How does this one compares to the new Predator Helios 300?

i7 would be overkill for gaming anyways this is perfect - its only a 1060 anyways, battery life on these wouldnt be great to begin with imagine the extra heat also.

Tech deals in HotUKDeals somewhat reminds me of PLAYERUNKNOWNBATTLEGROUNDS.

EDIT: WOOPS! Had to check my spelling before posting. Didn't want to lose a limb! X_X

It's probably 3.2ghz on 1 core and 2.9 or 2.8 for 4 cores


It definitely does
Many tests have shown that the 6300hq/7300hq bottleneck the 1060 much moreso than the 6700hq/7700hq

Alienware build quality is absolutely unreal, mine feels so sturdy.

Very Expensive

Can this stream 4k Netflix to my TV?

Only 1080p screen though :thinking:

For the price it aint bad but I would rather pay the same money for a 15.6 with a better resolution

Totally depends on the game. ARMA 3 would get hamstrung by that CPU, as would Forza Horizon 3.

1080p would be fine for on the move, but yeah, 17" is a bit big for portable, bit small for a desktop replacement

I don't believe the CPU will bottleneck the 1060 in this instance. 1080p gaming really isn't difficult to run, so unless you're livestreaming or have something pounding the CPU then you won't have any bottlenecks in games. Is the monitor 60Hz? If so, turn on V-Sync and it won't tear etc.

Thank you :smile:

Would this work with the oculus rift?

using alienware 13 at moment and I couldn't recommend it more! I have the fully spec'd one with oled and 1060 6gb, if you have the money for it I would go for it but a tip for you. once you see that on outlet, don't bother with cashback and all that. Talk to dell customer services and ask for discount on it and they will drop a good 10-20% off. I got 250 quid off mine just by being a bit cheeky on the chat. Got nothing to lose.

I have been waiting for a 17 inch OLED laptop sigh. Happy with my current laptop now but hopefully OLED laptops would be more common in 2018 or sooner.

You can have same model with extra usb3 port for 200£ more :astonished: - argos.co.uk/pro…799

Just got mine and I can confirm that its a TN panel but a good quality one with very good viewing angles and the colours are really nice. Build quality is nice, it has a soft touch surface which is a finger print magnet. The keyboard is really good and looks the business with the full RGB backlighting. Anyone wondering about the specs, well the one I have has 3 USB 3 ports 2 USB-C ports and a display port on the side. On the rear it has 1 HDMI and 1 display port next to the power connector. Thought this may help as on the Argos website there is no mention of USB-C and the USB-3 ports are listed as USB 2 although they may have sent me the wrong item knowing them, but I'm not complaining.

Also if you are going to upgrade the ram it might be handy to note that there are 3 hidden screws under neath rubber tabs with little arrows on them in addition to the ones you can see visibly. The tabs are a pain in the backside to remove but once out the back panel comes off freely but its about 17 screws in total.

I called Medion customer support and they were not aware of this but did say that opening to upgrade ram will not void anything. Also there are 4 dim slots listed but I could only see 2 free when i opened it up so the other one may be on the underside of the motherboard but i'm not brave enough to dig that out.

Hope this helps.

I bought on to 2 days ago. Great quality for the price. Its quite while gaming and very powerful gtx 1060 6GB graphic card. Don't know why I couldn't find any reviews for this laptop its good value for money

Hey mate how did you get though to dell customer services? I tried though their live sales chat and they only deal with new machines not outlet and can't find a link to just normal customer service?

The other two slots are under the keyboard. There is a hole that is used to push the keyboard out using a screwdriver or similar.

The laptop also and extra M.2 SSD port and an extra 2.5" drive bay for a thin SSD or Hard drive.

This is just a Clevo chassis branded by medion and is a very good machine for the money.

A lot of people suggest issues with medion and they always seem suspiciously cheap which puts me off them.

Spec wise it seems great value.

Voted hot before and voted hot now. Its still a brilliant all round spec for the money!

No longer £899.99. Now £1099.99.