IMPORTANT EDIT: To buy this laptop at the frankly amazing price of £899.99, go to lenovo.com/rew…/uk and find the Levovo Y520 and use the code !LENOVOREWARDS! (see the post below for more comments).
A huge thanks to The_Hoff for this information!
I recently posted a deal for the Medion X7847 laptop which did well. However not everyone wants a big, hefty 17" laptop so here's something similar in the smaller & lighter 15.6" form factor...
The cheapest, £999.99 version of the Lenovo Y520 on Lenovo's online store comes with the following spec...
i7-7700HQ CPU Windows 10 15.6" FHD IPS AntiGlare 1920x1080 screen 8.0GB DDR4 (2400MHz) 128GB SSD + 1TB HDD (5400 rpm) Nvidia 1060 MaxQ 3GB GDDR5 GPU 1 x USB Type-C port 2.52 kg weight Backlit keyboard One year warranty
At a penny shy of a grand, this machine isn't cheap (or even a deal!) but it does tick a lot of the boxes that some gamers look for (i7 not i5, a definite IPS screen, fast RAM, a 1060 GPU, Type C).
It's an extra £100 for the 6GB version of the GPU and an extra £100 for a 256GB SSD (in place of the standard 128GB one) so the base version is where the value lies.
Here's a decent review of the Lenovo Y520 (with the lesser 1050 Ti GPU) which praised it for it's relative quietness and good thermal management...
For those concerned that this laptop comes with the newer, less capable Max Q version of the 1060 GPU, here's a good article on how the old and new versions compare...
Edit: Use the discount code LEN4600 to get this price (thanks to Dokko for this)
All comments (69)
cj2704
6 Aug 17#1
What lets it down for me is the 8gb RAM - on the higher spec (6gb 1060 model) for another £100 you can get all of the above, with 16gb RAM and a faster hard drive from a HP omen (they're also 17.3 inch which I prefer, though I read that you wanted to post a 15 inch laptop for people)
technodai to cj2704
6 Aug 17#38
Where can I find the OMEN you mention? I need some kind of sign!
cj2704 to technodai
7 Aug 17#48
The writing is on the wall my friend
Joe90_guy
6 Aug 17#2
Not sure if this works or not but apparently you can get 4% off using the discount code LEN4600, taking the price to £959.99.
That's not bad when you see that Currys want £949.99 for the i5 / 1050 Ti version of the Y520 (see link)...
For anyone interested in the difference between the 3GB and 6GB versions of the Nvidia 1060, it seems like for 1080p, there isn't a massive difference for most games but specific games (Hitman for example) do benefit from the extra RAM. It's all explained here...
For those people that like to watch their reviews rather than read them....
Dokko
6 Aug 17#5
If it was £1100 for 6gb gpu and 16gb ram then were talking. No need to be charging £100 for each upgrade. Still good price, heat added
lump
6 Aug 17#6
This is a cracking deal. The 3gb memory for the gpu is not an issue, and that i7 is a corker at this price
didsburydan
6 Aug 17#7
thanks for the heads up, been looking for a decent laptop that doesn't have the usual tacky "gamer" design for a while. get 10% off through work too so £899 for me. Now to look at it for a few hours with my finger hovering over the buy button.
didsburydan
6 Aug 17#8
worth getting the 6gb graphics if I can get it for £989?
Joe90_guy to didsburydan
6 Aug 17#9
Personally I'd say no. I'd spend the £100 on games instead!
Danjw91 to didsburydan
6 Aug 17#11
Is that even debatable? Haha
Danjw91
6 Aug 17#10
Not too bad, I get 10% off this with military discount so works out at £900. Must resist.
doe
6 Aug 17#12
was going to build a gaming pc. But thinking this is better value
ladaowner to doe
6 Aug 17#40
No, a gaming pc will always be better vaule.
MonkeyMan90 to doe
6 Aug 17#47
You should build a pc mate you can't upgrade a laptop plus you can build a gaming pc with 1060 6gb gpu for this price
britchic4
6 Aug 17#13
I need a new laptop. I'm not a gamer but I freelance and need tonnes of videos and images for work, both creating and storing. My current Ideapad S510 can't really cope. Is this spec overkill do you think?
Joe90_guy to britchic4
6 Aug 17#15
If you're not a gamer then you probably shouldn't buy this laptop. At a rough estimate, the Nvidia 1060 video card alone will make up about 25% of the cost of this laptop! If you're not going to use all of that graphics oomph, then you could get something more suited to your needs that's a lot cheaper.
britchic4 to Joe90_guy
6 Aug 17#18
Thanks thats good to know
rikhd
6 Aug 17#14
Poor battery life :disappointed:
Joe90_guy to rikhd
6 Aug 17#17
I'd agree with that but with one caveat. If you buy a laptop like this, with its power hungry GPU, then in all likelihood, you're going to be using it plugged into a socket most of the time. If say you wanted to do heavy gaming on a train commute or a long plane journey, a bigger battery would help some but chances are it would be drained by the time you get to your destination.
bbfb123 to Joe90_guy
7 Aug 17#52
If your buying a laptop to plug it in all the time why would you not buy a desktop computer instead and save money?!
Joe90_guy to bbfb123
8 Aug 17#53
My lowly 15" gaming laptop hardly ever leaves the house but I still would always opt for it rather than a desktop. The reasons are space, simplicity, convenience & location. Our house is smallish so space is at a premium. I could go for a desktop and monitor but that would probably mean setting it up permanently (along with a desk) in one of the bedrooms. Me & the wife tend to like to share the same space even if we're doing different things. As often as not, I might be playing Assassin's Creed (loving Syndicate at the moment!) on my laptop on the dining room table while she's watching Emmerdale. When I'm not gaming, the laptop just folds up and resides, out of the way, on one of the dining room chairs.
I think the last desktop I bought was in 1993! Ever since, it's been laptops for me. Yes I know that you can get more gaming bang for the buck from a desktop and that they're easier to upgrade but I won't ever be going back to one just because laptops are just so much more convenient.
Dokko
6 Aug 17#16
btw -LEN4600 works for 4% discount
Dokko
6 Aug 17#19
Also i've read from several reviews on the Legion Y520 15 that the screen is poor.
didsburydan to Dokko
6 Aug 17#20
par for the course with sub-£1000 gaming laptops. if you want a decent screen you're looking at spending another £500
The_Hoff
6 Aug 17#21
£899 via the Lenovo Rewards site.
Joe90_guy to The_Hoff
6 Aug 17#22
I Googled Lenovo Rewards and it didn't come back with anything instantly recognisable. Is this the same as Perk Box??? If not, how do I access Lenovo Rewards?
Blimey! It really works!!! £899.99 for this laptop. All I can say is WOW!
I posted this deal mainly for other people. Now I'm thinking I want this!
The_Hoff to Joe90_guy
6 Aug 17#31
Of course it works, I posted it :smile:
wildheart3003
6 Aug 17#29
Will this laptop pass VR requirement?
Joe90_guy to wildheart3003
6 Aug 17#30
Yes. Even the 1050 Ti is good for VR now.
Dokko
6 Aug 17#32
£990 for the 6gb version, that's got me
The_Hoff
6 Aug 17#33
Feel free to give me a like, or £50 :wink:
muzzydark
6 Aug 17#34
OP should amend the deal as £899 with !LENOVOREWARDS! code to the rewards link. Hot deal.
Joe90_guy to muzzydark
6 Aug 17#35
Done! (apologies for not doing this earlier but the wife wanted to me to do what she calls 'real' work!)
Enet
6 Aug 17#36
This is a nice deal. 990 pounds for the 6gb is excellent even if it isn't quite the same as the standard one. For 1080p games this laptop will play pretty much everything. And wait until you try Virtual Reality!
MJR
6 Aug 17#37
Password no longer working!
yomanation
6 Aug 17#39
Good price, however my Lenovo only lasted 2 years, it's extremely fragile in build quality and ventilation is not ideal. So keep that in mind.
Shakeyyy
6 Aug 17#41
To me, this is insane money to spend without at least a 3 year warranty. Lenovo hasn't got a great rep for customer service either
didsburydan to Shakeyyy
6 Aug 17#42
meh, in 3-4 years i'll be looking to buy a new laptop regardless.
Shakeyyy to didsburydan
6 Aug 17#43
I don't doubt that, but if this breaks just after the 1 year warranty period, you're looking at a hefty charge to get it repaired - or you're £900 worse off... Hence why 3 years is always minimal when spending this much money
Joe90_guy
6 Aug 17#44
This was flagged up in the OP...
Joe90_guy
6 Aug 17#45
Nice little YouTube video comparison of the Y520 with comparable laptops. Okay it's American but notwithstanding that, the Lenovo Y520 doesn't disgrace itself in company.
Picard123
6 Aug 17#46
They advertise this as Max-Q but it's not a proper Max-Q design. They've simply used the old chassis and downclocked the GPU.
ellishmm
7 Aug 17#49
The code for £899 isn't working for me. Has it expired?
Picard123
7 Aug 17#50
It's not even a proper Max-Q chassis design either.
Ag2014
7 Aug 17#51
If anyone has a student account, you can still get it for that price. Extended warranty / Accidental damage has a discount too.
Got mine today (was supposed to be here monday but UKMail are idiots.
Love it, super fast, really good build quality... screen is great too (although I'm coming from a 5 year old toshiba)
Joe90_guy to didsburydan
11 Aug 17#55
Glad that you're happy with your new lappie and glad that the post helped someone.
I did think very hard about getting this for myself, especially when it dropped to £899.99. My 'problem' is that it's still only 2.5 years ago since I bought my ASUS, which I bought convinced it would be a laptop that would finally 'last me a few years'. Yes it's only got an Nvidia 850m DDR3 GPU and no it doesn't have an SSD or a backlit keyboard, but right now it's still managing to play AC Syndicate at 900p with a mix of Very High & High settings. Of course the Y520 would have been better but relative to what I have now, would it have been £900's worth of better? In my case, probably not...
BirchieBirch
13 Aug 17#56
Incredible price for the spec. Would have bought it if it wasn't for the sub-par screen. Great deal though!
didsburydan to BirchieBirch
15 Aug 17#57
i bought one, absolutely no complaints about the screen.
BirchieBirch to didsburydan
15 Aug 17#58
For gaming it's fine. I do a bit of amature graphic design work here and there so looking for a screen with decent colour accuracy and coverage. The reviews I've read have said it's not great in that department so I've held off.
Crunx
15 Aug 17#59
Is this still available for 899. The reward site no longer works for me.
Joe90_guy to Crunx
15 Aug 17#60
Go to this other HUKD thread.
Use the password !EXCLUSIVE57
It might be just me but I couldn't get the code to be accepted if I did this via Chrome on my tablet and phone. However it did work first time if I did this via Windows.
Hope this helps...
Crunx to Joe90_guy
15 Aug 17#61
Thank you. Will I find a better laptop for less than £900?. I'm so tempted but can't quite hit the button
Great laptop, if I had a spare grand I would order it :smile:
JoelM123
25 Aug 17#65
Understand below linked laptop has standard 1060 6GB, but correct me if I am wrong...it has i5-7300 instead of i7-7700, but if the GPU is not Max-Q type, I think it's better bang for buck, thoughts?
The HP has the full fat 1060 and will be a bit (but not visually noticeably) quicker. It also has the G-Sync monitor which will be a bit (but not a lot) better. On the other hand, it costs £100 more and, if you're talking equivalent performance, you're going to have to spend more on top to add an SSD to it. Regarding the SSD addition, these things always look so easy in theory but in my experience can be a real pain in the backside and it's something I personally always try to avoid.
If you're buying one of these machines, the presumption is you're doing so to play games. The question perhaps you should ask yourself is, how much does 'playing games' actually matter and how much should you be spending on it? (as opposed to paying off the mortgage or taking the wife and kids on holiday).
For me, I refuse to play the 'I must have THE best machine that money can buy game'. It smacks too much of teenage immaturity. I'm happy to stick with my two year old lappie, sacrifice a bit of game detailling I'd probably not notice anyway and keep my money in the bank. However, if my ASUS died tomorrow, I'd buy the Lenovo, not the HP simply because for me, the buck takes precedence over the bang.
happylarry
3 Oct 17#67
I'm a bit late to the party but I managed to pick up one of these today.
I was one of the people that failed to get the AIO system but used the apology 20% code to get the £899 laptop for £719 - Happy Days! :innocent:
Joe90_guy to happylarry
3 Oct 17#68
Wow! Seriously impressed! What's an AIO system and how do I get the apology code????
happylarry to Joe90_guy
4 Oct 17#69
It was all part of a mistake made by Lenovo- they took orders they couldn't complete and had to cancel them all. I rang them and they send me a personalized code for the 20%. Complain about anything and I think you would get something off. I could have got 10% off from work via Xexec but 20% was better.
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Opening post
A huge thanks to The_Hoff for this information!
I recently posted a deal for the Medion X7847 laptop which did well. However not everyone wants a big, hefty 17" laptop so here's something similar in the smaller & lighter 15.6" form factor...
The cheapest, £999.99 version of the Lenovo Y520 on Lenovo's online store comes with the following spec...
i7-7700HQ CPU
Windows 10
15.6" FHD IPS AntiGlare 1920x1080 screen
8.0GB DDR4 (2400MHz)
128GB SSD + 1TB HDD (5400 rpm)
Nvidia 1060 MaxQ 3GB GDDR5 GPU
1 x USB Type-C port
2.52 kg weight
Backlit keyboard
One year warranty
At a penny shy of a grand, this machine isn't cheap (or even a deal!) but it does tick a lot of the boxes that some gamers look for (i7 not i5, a definite IPS screen, fast RAM, a 1060 GPU, Type C).
It's an extra £100 for the 6GB version of the GPU and an extra £100 for a 256GB SSD (in place of the standard 128GB one) so the base version is where the value lies.
Here's a decent review of the Lenovo Y520 (with the lesser 1050 Ti GPU) which praised it for it's relative quietness and good thermal management...
notebookcheck.net/Len…tml
For those concerned that this laptop comes with the newer, less capable Max Q version of the 1060 GPU, here's a good article on how the old and new versions compare...
notebookcheck.net/Nvi…tml
Hopefully someone will find this of interest...
Edit: Use the discount code LEN4600 to get this price (thanks to Dokko for this)
All comments (69)
That's not bad when you see that Currys want £949.99 for the i5 / 1050 Ti version of the Y520 (see link)...
currys.co.uk/gbu…tml
eurogamer.net/art…iew
I think the last desktop I bought was in 1993! Ever since, it's been laptops for me. Yes I know that you can get more gaming bang for the buck from a desktop and that they're easier to upgrade but I won't ever be going back to one just because laptops are just so much more convenient.
www3.lenovo.com/gb/…rds
I posted this deal mainly for other people. Now I'm thinking I want this!
UK Education Store
Love it, super fast, really good build quality... screen is great too (although I'm coming from a 5 year old toshiba)
I did think very hard about getting this for myself, especially when it dropped to £899.99. My 'problem' is that it's still only 2.5 years ago since I bought my ASUS, which I bought convinced it would be a laptop that would finally 'last me a few years'. Yes it's only got an Nvidia 850m DDR3 GPU and no it doesn't have an SSD or a backlit keyboard, but right now it's still managing to play AC Syndicate at 900p with a mix of Very High & High settings. Of course the Y520 would have been better but relative to what I have now, would it have been £900's worth of better? In my case, probably not...
Use the password !EXCLUSIVE57
It might be just me but I couldn't get the code to be accepted if I did this via Chrome on my tablet and phone. However it did work first time if I did this via Windows.
Hope this helps...
hotukdeals.com/dea…065
No. You absolutely, categorically, definitively won't find a comparable 1060 laptop for £900, never mind less than £900!
HP Omen
Which is the better laptop?
hotukdeals.com/dea…325
The HP has the full fat 1060 and will be a bit (but not visually noticeably) quicker. It also has the G-Sync monitor which will be a bit (but not a lot) better. On the other hand, it costs £100 more and, if you're talking equivalent performance, you're going to have to spend more on top to add an SSD to it. Regarding the SSD addition, these things always look so easy in theory but in my experience can be a real pain in the backside and it's something I personally always try to avoid.
If you're buying one of these machines, the presumption is you're doing so to play games. The question perhaps you should ask yourself is, how much does 'playing games' actually matter and how much should you be spending on it? (as opposed to paying off the mortgage or taking the wife and kids on holiday).
For me, I refuse to play the 'I must have THE best machine that money can buy game'. It smacks too much of teenage immaturity. I'm happy to stick with my two year old lappie, sacrifice a bit of game detailling I'd probably not notice anyway and keep my money in the bank. However, if my ASUS died tomorrow, I'd buy the Lenovo, not the HP simply because for me, the buck takes precedence over the bang.
I was one of the people that failed to get the AIO system but used the apology 20% code to get the £899 laptop for £719 - Happy Days! :innocent:
AIO system link
Laptop arrive today, can't wait