Last one I promise - New Laptop n00b Help / Buying Advice

[bikertomm]

Lads,

Last thread I promise, been delaying it and delaying it, mainly because of Windows updating every time I went to look.

Anyway, the time has come and now everything is Windows 10 it makes sense, I'm buying one.

Budget of £500 - £800ish. I know you can get much better specs for the money at the higher end of the budget. (I don't know alot about what these specs mean though. )

I don't know whether to get i5 or i7, I expect I'll have the laptop for a good amount of time, may even try and start mucking about with a GoPro at some point and try editing etc. Also will want to use Sketchup 3D.

So... Minimum specs wanted:

Windows 10 pre-installed
i5 (or i7)
8GB+ RAM
15.6 or 17" Full HD screen
1TB+ Harddrive
Some kind of dedicated Graphics card? Nvidia GEforce keep coming up.

and mega bonus points for a backlit keyboard!!

Best I've found so far is this for £649

15.6". Windows 10. 6th Gen i5. 12GB RAM. 2TB Hard-drive. Backlit keyboard. Nvidia GeForce 940m 2GB Dedicated. 1920x1080 full HD.

Or.. the abobe with a 17" screen and i7-6500u processor for £745.

But be great if you lot bunged in your suggestions so I can compare other makes and models etc!

With the addition of black friday coming up I suppose I better hold out to see. But my student discount will run out very soon so those deals above would normally be £150 more.

Cheers lads.


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[bikertomm]

Anyone?

What's people's thoughts on HP laptops? Envy model.

Suppose they are all just much of a muchness nowadays..?

Cheers.
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[bikertomm]

You dick!

If it comes pre-installed with Windows 10 I should in theory have no issues other than MAK errors (me being a monkey at keyboard..)


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[J.M.]

[CaNsA]

[Im-a-Ridah]

If you want to use games, get a desktop. Laptops are meant to be portable not to be good at games. Personally I use a 13" laptop since I can carry it in a bag all day without it feeling like I'm carry a bag of rocks. The performance of the CPUs is also pretty weak compared to the desktop versions, a mobile i5 will have about half the cache and half the cores of its desktop counterpart. i7 can have up to 4 cores. A powerful discrete GPU alongside powerful CPU will just suck all the juice from the battery at a stunning rate, so you'll have to plug it in, and to might as well just have got a desktop.

[G]

From the Dell Outlet, I got a 9530 (replaced by the 9550 now) for just under £700+ vat I think - so a little over your budget in this spec...
15" 4k touch screen
Backlit keyboard
i7
16gb
970m 2GB
512gb SSD
91kwh LiPo battery
All in a pretty light/compact package, though that doesn't worry me - hopefully my next one will be a chunky 'workstation' 17/18" 4k screen model - alas you don't get 4k in those sizes yet.

Wouldn't be my choice for games sat in one place - but coding and being moved around pretty well.

[bikertomm]

Thanks lads.

I've bitten the bullet and ordered it at the weekend, arrived yesterday.

Meh, I'm happy. It's nice to have a laptop that actually does something when you click!

17.3" 1920x1080 full HD. Windows 10. 6th Gen i7-6500u. 12GB RAM. 2TB Hard-drive. Backlit keyboard. Nvidia GeForce 940m 2GB Dedicated.

Liking it so far, seems everything is an 'app' now...

Here's to being able to post on BCF from home now
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