Best laptop for £400, very very light gaming
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I have been looking at laptops for a bit now as my wife wants one and have not seen any decent offers for a while. I reckon it is all due to the back to school and uni ramoing up the prices and the haswell laptops being rolled out at the end of the month.
I would wait a few weeks to see if there are any decent ivy bridge offers or any tasty haswell ones.
I would wait a few weeks to see if there are any decent ivy bridge offers or any tasty haswell ones.
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not sure if i'm allowed to link to a deal page but if not I will remove:
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/ins...30m-2g-17-3in-1920-x-1080-491-95-dell-1657483
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/ins...30m-2g-17-3in-1920-x-1080-491-95-dell-1657483
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Sorry, don't mean to hijack a thread but I'm in a similar situation and looking for a similar laptop, though I'm slightly more concerned with graphics capabilities. The deal for the Inspiron 17" posted above looks quite good to me, but as an engineer it's going to have to run CAD software, Solid Edge in particular, and as a bored student it would be quite nice if it ran a few games as well. I don't game often but reasonable performance on Skyrim, Farcry 3 and Guild Wars 2 would be good but I don't know enough about laptop GPU's to figure out if this'll happen. Any advice?
If he went 2nd hand he could get a cracking laptop for £400. I can't personally think of any new laptops I'd spend 400 quid on & I've been looking for ages now. Seen some great 2nd hand ones with superb specs but I keep missing out on them. 
That is more like £500 but yes that is decent. My guess is that with the arrival of Haswell laptops in the next few weeks we should start getting some deals.
I've spent all week looking for something in this range that's 13" - 15.6" but I can't seem to find anything really.
My main goal was to get an i5 laptop that has some sort of graphical capabilities past Intel HD 4000 since I would ideally like it to be able to play Final Fantasy XIV (even if it is at low settings) - but I don't know if this is too much of an ask at this price.
Does anyone think any of the Haswell laptops rumoured to come out at some point next month will fall into this price range of about £400-£500?
Not sure if I should just go for the next deal I see or to wait it out for the Haswells
Hope I'm not derailing the thread too much
My main goal was to get an i5 laptop that has some sort of graphical capabilities past Intel HD 4000 since I would ideally like it to be able to play Final Fantasy XIV (even if it is at low settings) - but I don't know if this is too much of an ask at this price.
Does anyone think any of the Haswell laptops rumoured to come out at some point next month will fall into this price range of about £400-£500?
Not sure if I should just go for the next deal I see or to wait it out for the Haswells
Hope I'm not derailing the thread too much
I also think, as a guy before also said, that AMD's new APUs could be a very good option for a £400 budget.
There is the 15.6 inch Acer Aspire V5-552 with the new AMD A8-5557M APU which if you search a bit around currently sells for £380 (6GB RAM, 500GB HDD, not sure about the batter life though)
There is the 15.6 inch Acer Aspire V5-552 with the new AMD A8-5557M APU which if you search a bit around currently sells for £380 (6GB RAM, 500GB HDD, not sure about the batter life though)