Always wanted one of those little 12 inch macbooks (without the mac os and the £1500 price tag). These aren't perfect but get pretty close to them and at £800 with those specs seems like a good deal. Usually £1000 +
Debenhams doing 25% off to get that price. Think you can get 2% cashback as well. Couldn't find any codes that would work with it though.
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akky79
9 Aug 17#34
I purchased it from John Lewis who price matched the laptops direct price. Plus 2 year warranty.
Does anyone know how it compares against Dell XPS 13?
fishmaster to Ghulam35
7 Aug 17#23
I work as an IT refurbisher, based on the customer service from Asus I would never buy anything from them. HP's are the most popular brand and therefore we get the most failures with them, they do seem to fail significantly more than other brands in my experience. I would get the Dell XPS 13, if it's the bezeless one, then it looks great and has a great screen. Asus are a bunch of **&*s.
nublets2k to fishmaster
7 Aug 17#29
:wink:
A different day, a different job eh Fishy
fishmaster to nublets2k
7 Aug 17#31
Meaning? Perhaps I mistook what you were trying to say. I've had this job 6 years as an I.T. refurbisher and before that I used to build computers for the visually impaired. I do see a heck of a lot of different laptops in this job but each day isn't that different really.
ollie87 to fishmaster
7 Aug 17#30
I have to say as a PC gamer of nearly 25 years I agree.
ASUS are terrible to deal with.
Chunk266
7 Aug 17#28
A 512GB ssd is pretty impressive at this price. A £1100 macbook only has half that capacity.
dezontk
7 Aug 17#27
910g - nice.
Tequila
7 Aug 17#26
This is a "premium" range ultra book,so design and build quality is focused on. not suitable for people that don't understand/don't care about design and that high quality "feel".
they price is reflective of attention to details,design and build quality too,not just the specs and guts inside.
these are great if your after premium Windows Ultrabooks,but I suggest looking at Huawei Matebook X too,that one is the best for Windows.almost as good build and design as 12" Macbook.maybe even better designed
akky79
6 Aug 17#4
It's a similar price most places now. I'd rather pay £45 for an extra year warranty with John Lewis: m.johnlewis.com/asu…653
Your thoughts??? I'm thinking of getting one. Good reviews out there on YouTube.
Agharta to akky79
6 Aug 17#7
The i7 is still dual core so hardly any faster (~10%) so it comes down to whether you need the extra RAM badly enough to spend an extra £200.
nublets2k to Agharta
6 Aug 17#11
Neither is single core...
Agharta to nublets2k
6 Aug 17#12
Oops, I've updated. :smile:
akky79 to nublets2k
6 Aug 17#13
So is it faster or not??? Is it worth spending the extra £200 for 16GB and i7???
nublets2k to akky79
6 Aug 17#14
It's likely that most people won't notice a difference. If you don't need 16gb ram then it's not worth it.
Agharta to akky79
6 Aug 17#15
CPU is ~10% faster. If you really need 16GB of RAM then you should buy a laptop with that amount.
CampGareth to Agharta
6 Aug 17#16
For those of you who don't know if you need it, you don't. I'm a programmer and I only have 8GB of RAM in my laptop, it keeps up with tens of chrome tabs, VMs etc. with ease.
Poorly in some respects, the 12" macbook is a better comparison. For instance, it's only 1080p, no 3200x1800 option here. Its SSD may well be SATA3 instead of NVMe (so it's slower). It only has a 3.5mm jack and one USB-C port with no special functions like thunderbolt 3, vs the XPS 13's SD card slot, thunderbolt 3 capable USB-C port, separate charging port, 2 x USB type A (i.e. normal) ports. Internal battery's smaller at 40Wh vs 60Wh for the XPS.
It wins in the weight department (910g vs about 1.2kg for XPS) and in webcam placement. That's about it.
Ghulam35 to CampGareth
7 Aug 17#20
Thank you Gareth that's great help, the other option is the hp spectre 13 (or x360)
CampGareth to Ghulam35
7 Aug 17#22
I don't know much about those models, whereas I own the XPS 13. They seem generally impressive, though beware the lack of classic ports. Apparently there was a BIOS update to fix the one major problem they had which was that they wouldn't charge off any USB-C PD capable chargers except HP's own.
Ruffuz to akky79
6 Aug 17#9
I7 just slightly faster, 16gb ram will have not difference in normal use. This is better value.
fm991 to akky79
6 Aug 17#17
John lewis will price match debenhams even with a voucher
akky79 to fm991
7 Aug 17#18
Debenhams, Yes. Debenhams Plus, No.
TomScrut to akky79
7 Aug 17#25
What would you be doing on one of these that would need 16GB of RAM? If you cannot answer that then its probably not a better deal as the CPU alone isn't worth the extra money. I can think of lots of uses of over that RAM but not on a 12 inch notebook!
Ghulam35
7 Aug 17#24
Thank you guys Dell XPS 13 it is
thewolf8u
7 Aug 17#21
I have a 3rd gen i7 cpu 3770K in a desktop which I bought 5 years ago and is still 90% faster than the i7-7500. Yes I know this isn't a desktop but I wanted to make the point you should ignore the model numbers intel use and look up the performance speed at cpubenchmark.net
wallstreetcrash
7 Aug 17#19
Can you add RAM yourself easily?
ILOVEYOUMAN
6 Aug 17#5
Same laptop available at Laptop Direct for £799.97, also has the possibility of an extra £15 discount with a trial to Which? magazine and also 2% quidco cashback (possible ~£769.27). laptopsdirect.co.uk/asu…asp
spannerzone to ILOVEYOUMAN
6 Aug 17#10
Not sure if still the case but Laptops Direct and Debenhams electronics were all part of the Buy It Direct group and I suspect if you buy it from Debenhams you're actually dealing with the same company as Laptops Direct.
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Debenhams doing 25% off to get that price. Think you can get 2% cashback as well. Couldn't find any codes that would work with it though.
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£5.03 cheaper here :relaxed:
Does anyone know how it compares against Dell XPS 13?
A different day, a different job eh Fishy
ASUS are terrible to deal with.
not suitable for people that don't understand/don't care about design and that high quality "feel".
they price is reflective of attention to details,design and build quality too,not just the specs and guts inside.
these are great if your after premium Windows Ultrabooks,but I suggest looking at Huawei Matebook X too,that one is the best for Windows.almost as good build and design as 12" Macbook.maybe even better designed
Also, isn't this a better deal for the i7 / 16GB version -
amazon.co.uk/dp/…HNC
Your thoughts??? I'm thinking of getting one. Good reviews out there on YouTube.
Poorly in some respects, the 12" macbook is a better comparison. For instance, it's only 1080p, no 3200x1800 option here. Its SSD may well be SATA3 instead of NVMe (so it's slower). It only has a 3.5mm jack and one USB-C port with no special functions like thunderbolt 3, vs the XPS 13's SD card slot, thunderbolt 3 capable USB-C port, separate charging port, 2 x USB type A (i.e. normal) ports. Internal battery's smaller at 40Wh vs 60Wh for the XPS.
It wins in the weight department (910g vs about 1.2kg for XPS) and in webcam placement. That's about it.
I don't know much about those models, whereas I own the XPS 13. They seem generally impressive, though beware the lack of classic ports. Apparently there was a BIOS update to fix the one major problem they had which was that they wouldn't charge off any USB-C PD capable chargers except HP's own.