If you want FHD this will do; update to SSD at your convenience. 4GB memory is OK in my experience - how easy is it to upgrade? No idea.
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TheGuvner
20 Aug 17#1
Not a bad deal, would prefer a different brand personally.
Heat added
Musicrab to TheGuvner
20 Aug 17#2
Is there a good budget brand? I'd exclude Acer and Toshiba from personal experience; HP is adequate; Dell is good.
Gordon.Bell
20 Aug 17#3
To answer your question: Ram upgrade is a trap door - easy. 4GB would enough for most people. youtube.com/wat…e5g
Bully to Gordon.Bell
21 Aug 17#6
So you can keep HD and add SSD.Nice.
damadgeruk
21 Aug 17#4
Lenovo is a decent brand IME though not necessarily robust. Can't recommend Currys however, they've no idea the Sale of Goods Act/Consumer Act exist.
ollie87 to damadgeruk
21 Aug 17#5
Unless it's a ThinkPad.
Dekard97 to damadgeruk
21 Aug 17#11
That's so true in my experience. Two places I try not to shop in, Curry's/PC World and Game
Publix to damadgeruk
21 Aug 17#15
Agreed. They would also have happily done me out of a -10% offer at checkout time, had I not already been aware. Required the operator to take brain out of neutral and nearly 2 extra minutes of register screen navigation to find the code necessary to apply the -10%. Operator would have happily applied the non discounted price to my card. Management at fault for zero on-going training.
hcc27
21 Aug 17#7
Heated for what it is.
These big brands are receiving a serious walloping from some of the Chinese laptops coming out through online stores like AliExpress, GearBest etc.
Yes this has a full HD screen, but you could go for an all-metal Jumper EZbook Pro with 4GB/256GB SSD/Full HD and an Intel Apollo lake processor for around £225 delivered (a few on here now). Given that this has a mechanical HDD, the benefits of the faster i3 processor will be squandered significantly and I'd suspect the Ezbook's performance will probably be quite similar. You need another £70-80 to add an SSD to this. The eZbook will also be significantly lighter (ultrabook format) and have around 7h on battery.
Some very interesting Apollo Lake 'ultrabooks' coming out of China these days with all metal unibodies/Full HD screens/64-256GB eMMC or SSD, including the well-reviewed Civiltop Air/TBook Air and Onda Xiaoma 21/31/41 - the 21 a dead ringer for the new MacBook.
ollie87 to hcc27
21 Aug 17#8
Well Lenovo is Chinese so...
Musicrab to hcc27
21 Aug 17#9
Cool - when these are available with a usable warranty (perhaps they are now?), I'm in!
elbs to hcc27
21 Aug 17#19
with pretty poor quality control (if you read some of the reviews for them) and zero warranty - not a reassuring combination.
as long as that remains the case, i (and i suspect the large majority of people) would rather pay the extra for a reputable brand with a warranty. not to say they are perfect in the slightest, but at least you have some kind of safety net, rather than being left with a 'bargain' £225 brick if something goes wrong - and going by reviews/forums that appears to be not uncommon.
livingfree
21 Aug 17#10
I've one of these, bought from John Lewis last year. Its pretty good for the money, better that our equivalent DELL(albeit with an i5 processor) one of the things I like is that its quick to start up, with a shorter delay than others. After a while of using this for office based work and a little bit of image editing I would happily buy another one when needed.
Sp0oner
21 Aug 17#12
Heat from me far better than recent deals posted where it's 1366x768 and nearly £400 just because of more ram and larger hdd. Ram and hdd are a doddle/cheap to improve compared to the screen.
Picard123 to Sp0oner
21 Aug 17#27
This still has a crappy low end TN panel though....
Sp0oner to Picard123
21 Aug 17#28
For the money this is it's fine. If you want a quality screen pay the money for one like I did and got a 4k XPS 15. This is a budget laptop and is great for the money when you see what else is at this price.
Picard123 to Sp0oner
21 Aug 17#29
I wouldn't say it's great value at all - I'd say its pretty poor value. This is Lenovo dumping stock of older/slower/low quality components onto consumers who don't know any better.
raf35y1
21 Aug 17#13
Got this but with 8gb ram from j lewis (2 year warranty) £359
amour3k to raf35y1
21 Aug 17#20
So, you theoretically payed LESS for your lot x-years back, then that of what today's lot are going to pay for their lesser lot today like?
My Flux Capacitor has nothing on you huh?, LITERALLY ... lol. :-D
You did well there, hehehe.
raf35y1 to amour3k
21 Aug 17#23
This was 1 month ago price still valid, 2 year warranty not 2 years ago, you nob.
garrysmith5205
21 Aug 17#14
Damn, i just paid £320 for a HP probook 650 G2 with a 1366x768 screen :disappointed:
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4GB memory is OK in my experience - how easy is it to upgrade? No idea.
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youtube.com/wat…e5g
They would also have happily done me out of a -10% offer at checkout time, had I not already been aware.
Required the operator to take brain out of neutral and nearly 2 extra minutes of register screen navigation to find the code necessary to apply the -10%. Operator would have happily applied the non discounted price to my card.
Management at fault for zero on-going training.
These big brands are receiving a serious walloping from some of the Chinese laptops coming out through online stores like AliExpress, GearBest etc.
Yes this has a full HD screen, but you could go for an all-metal Jumper EZbook Pro with 4GB/256GB SSD/Full HD and an Intel Apollo lake processor for around £225 delivered (a few on here now). Given that this has a mechanical HDD, the benefits of the faster i3 processor will be squandered significantly and I'd suspect the Ezbook's performance will probably be quite similar. You need another £70-80 to add an SSD to this. The eZbook will also be significantly lighter (ultrabook format) and have around 7h on battery.
Some very interesting Apollo Lake 'ultrabooks' coming out of China these days with all metal unibodies/Full HD screens/64-256GB eMMC or SSD, including the well-reviewed Civiltop Air/TBook Air and Onda Xiaoma 21/31/41 - the 21 a dead ringer for the new MacBook.
as long as that remains the case, i (and i suspect the large majority of people) would rather pay the extra for a reputable brand with a warranty. not to say they are perfect in the slightest, but at least you have some kind of safety net, rather than being left with a 'bargain' £225 brick if something goes wrong - and going by reviews/forums that appears to be not uncommon.
My Flux Capacitor has nothing on you huh?, LITERALLY ... lol. :-D
You did well there, hehehe.