Recommend me an ultrabook

addyb · 11 Mar 2014 at 13:10

Hi all,

Im after a decent ultrabook.

Budget -£550
Want at least an i5 cpu
Intel HD gpu fine but nvidia would be a bonus.
Storage space not that important.

Screen size 13" but would go to 15
Dont require an optical drive

Just want something that looks nice and has some good power behind it.
Im looking at soo many i just cant decide on what to go for.

addyb · 11 Mar 2014 at 14:24

Scratch that got myself an xps 14 from the dell outlet for £500 delivered

Zbornak · 11 Mar 2014 at 23:20

addyb said:
Scratch that got myself an xps 14 from the dell outlet for £480 delivered

What warranty do you get with Dell for their outlet items?

addyb · 12 Mar 2014 at 08:29

12 months warranty from what i gather.

£15 · 12 Mar 2014 at 09:27

I've been looking at the Dell Outlet as I have £1000 burning a hole in my pocket. But it's difficult to know what's a deal or not. (My finger hasn't been on the pulse for a long time...)

I'm tempted to splurge half on a lappy and the other half on a new NAS. What exactly did you get for your cash?

justalex81 · 12 Mar 2014 at 09:31

i've been researching the new dell xps 15. on paper it looks amazing. reality is poor battery life, buggy trackpad issues and bad scaling due to the hi res screen.

The new samsung ativ book 9 2014 looks like a winner but no idea when it's due for release. it has lossless audio and a reported 12 hour battery life!

addyb · 12 Mar 2014 at 10:27

BadMojo said:
I've been looking at the Dell Outlet as I have £1000 burning a hole in my pocket. But it's difficult to know what's a deal or not. (My finger hasn't been on the pulse for a long time...)

I'm tempted to splurge half on a lappy and the other half on a new NAS. What exactly did you get for your cash?

My spec:

XPS 14 - 14" screen @ (900p) True life infinity display
i5 -3337u (3M cache upto 2.7ghz)
8GB DDR3 (1600MHz)
500GB sata II HDD
32GB mSATA3 SSD
1GB Nvidia GT 630M
Windows 8 (64bit)

So a pretty good spec and the build quality of the xps range are great. For the price you cant do much better for build quality/spec

Zbornak · 12 Mar 2014 at 20:10

justalex81 said:
The new samsung ativ book 9 2014 looks like a winner but no idea when it's due for release. it has lossless audio and a reported 12 hour battery life!

New one looks lovely but it's probably going to be £1200+ region. I just feel you could get more for your money with another system.

addyb said:
My spec:

XPS 14 - 14" screen @ (900p) True life infinity display
i5 -3337u (3M cache upto 2.7ghz)
8GB DDR3 (1600MHz)
500GB sata II HDD
32GB mSATA3 SSD
1GB Nvidia GT 630M
Windows 8 (64bit)

So a pretty good spec and the build quality of the xps range are great. For the price you cant do much better for build quality/spec

How the hell did you get yours so cheap?! Saw another XPS 14 for much more.

addyb · 13 Mar 2014 at 15:16

Zbornak said:
New one looks lovely but it's probably going to be £1200+ region. I just feel you could get more for your money with another system.

How the hell did you get yours so cheap?! Saw another XPS 14 for much more.

Not sure how much the others are as its the first time ive ever looked at that outlet site. All i remember is it was listed as £416 or similar and total amount with delivery was just over £500.