Notebooks search for best laptop <=£600

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  1. adam_bagpuss

    adam_bagpuss Have you tried turning it off/on ?

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    title says it all im after the best laptop money can buy for 600 of hard earned pounds sterling.

    Laptop is for office use, steaming, playing DVDs etc the longer the battery the better and integrated GPU is perfectly fine as no gaming will be done on it at all.

    any suggestions so far i got this

    Samsung RC520-A01 £523.97 with a SB i5 2410M Cheesecake, 4GB of RAM 1333mhz im guessing and a decent size drive oh and i forgot 15.6" 1366x768 screen (TN panel most likely)

    i challenge anyone to do better +rep to the winner lol
     
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  2. Kaiwan

    Kaiwan Shinigami

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    I found this and you can either get a better processor, more ram, faster HDD or add a dedicated GPU for the same money. Sometimes you can have 2 of those things.

     
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  3. adam_bagpuss

    adam_bagpuss Have you tried turning it off/on ?

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    just did a quick spec comparison and it comes in £30 more expensive although has anyone had one of these

    whats the build quality like ? as if its better and more sturdy be worth the extra
     
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  4. adam_bagpuss

    adam_bagpuss Have you tried turning it off/on ?

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    bump anyone else have any input ?
     
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  5. Jaybles

    Jaybles What's a Dremel?

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    fdbh96 What's a Dremel?

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    In august amd's llanlo CPUs will be available in laptops and they will be £500 to £600 in laptops
     
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    tyepye Minimodder

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  8. adam_bagpuss

    adam_bagpuss Have you tried turning it off/on ?

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    not bad but an extra ~£70 for a GPU that wont be used which will suck battery life even more isnt worth it.

    Not gaming on it at all so id rather have more horse power in the CPU

    Its £100 more as the samsung is £523 inc VAT and your link is £627. suppose id get 6GB of RAM although its running in single channel ! (i hate that they do that) and a BR drive + larger HDD and GPU so value wise its very good but unnecessary for the task.

    keep um coming
     
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  9. Jaybles

    Jaybles What's a Dremel?

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    I didn't read the OP fully :duh:

    Bam, i7.

    Or

    A cheaper notebook + an SSD.
     
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  10. adam_bagpuss

    adam_bagpuss Have you tried turning it off/on ?

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    +1 jaybles

    thats a good price on an i7 since most laptops is this price range are either older i5 or sandybridge i3's
     
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  11. Jaybles

    Jaybles What's a Dremel?

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    :clap: Yay I win. :clap:

    Im not competitive or anything. :worried:
     
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    slaw At Argos buying "gold"

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