<£500 Laptop UK

[Tehkast]

Evening all,

 

Really been having issues over last year trying to find a replacement laptop that feels worth the money worried about getting sold short.

 

Budget is realistically £500 

 

I have a PC so that is all sorted for Gaming this Laptop would pure just be a workhorse I'm trying to learn to Code so something can drop in drop out carry around with me np is what I need.

Any suggestions would be greatly appropriated.

 

I'm to worried about going second hand to entertain that idea and thinking as not really after gaming the big brands would be fairly safe bet HP, Dell, Lenovo

 

From my searching come across some that seem fairly solid in my opinion but maybe I'm missing something obvious would love second opinion 

 

First see is https://www.hp.com/gb-en/shop/product.aspx?id=30A26EA&opt=ABU&sel=NTB#detailedSpecs £430

 

Operating system

Windows 11 Home^[38]

PROCESSOR

Processor family

11th Generation Intel® Core™ i5 processor

Processor

Intel® Core™ i5-1135G7 (up to 4.2 GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, 8 MB L3 cache, 4 cores)^[6,7]

Chipset

Intel® Integrated SoC

MEMORY

Memory

8 GB DDR4-2666 MHz RAM (2 x 4 GB)

Memory Note

Transfer rates up to 2666 MT/s.

Memory layout (slots & size)

2 x 4 GB

DRIVES

Internal Storage

512 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD

Cloud service

25 GB Dropbox storage for 12 months^[1]

GRAPHIC SUBSYSTEM

Graphics (integrated)

Intel® Iris® Xᵉ Graphics

CONNECTIVITY AND COMMUNICATIONS

Ports

1 SuperSpeed USB Type-C® 5Gbps signaling rate
2 SuperSpeed USB Type-A 5Gbps signaling rate
1 HDMI 1.4b
1 AC smart pin
1 headphone/microphone combo

Wireless

Realtek RTL8821CE-M 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (1x1) Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® 4.2 wireless card

Expansion slots

1 multi-format SD media card reader

Wireless Note

MU-MIMO supported
 Modern Standby (Connected)

MULTIMEDIA AND INPUT DEVICES

Audio

Dual speakers

Keyboard

Full-size, natural silver keyboard with numeric keypad

Pointing device

HP Imagepad with multi-touch gesture support
Precision Touchpad Support

WEIGHTS

Weight

1.69 kg

Package weight

2.2 kg

APPEARANCE

Product color

Natural silver

Product design

Paint cover and base finish, vertical brushing pattern with IMR finish keyboard frame

DIMENSIONS

Minimum dimensions (W x D x H)

35.85 x 24.2 x 1.79 cm

Package dimensions (W x D x H)

30.5 x 52 x 6.9 cm

BATTERY AND POWER

Battery life

Up to 7 hours and 15 minutes^[3]

Battery recharge time

Supports battery fast charge: approximately 50% in 45 minutes^[5]

Battery type

3-cell, 41 Wh Li-ion

Power supply type

45 W Smart AC power adapter

Battery weight

210 g

 

 

 

Next would be https://www.hp.com/gb-en/shop/product.aspx?id=4H2X5EA&opt=ABU&sel=NTB#detailedSpecs £370 (Something odd found about this one is if you have 4gb of ram instead it cost £70 more for less?)

 

SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS

Operating system

Windows 11 Home^[38]

PROCESSOR

Processor family

AMD Ryzen™ 5 processor

Processor

AMD Ryzen™ 5 5500U (up to 4.0 GHz max boost clock, 8 MB L3 cache, 6 cores, 12 threads)^[6,7]

Chipset

AMD Integrated SoC

MEMORY

Memory

8 GB DDR4-3200 MHz RAM (1 x 8 GB)

Memory Note

Transfer rates up to 3200 MT/s.

Memory layout (slots & size)

1 x 8 GB

DRIVES

Internal Storage

256 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD

Cloud service

25 GB Dropbox storage for 12 months^[1]

GRAPHIC SUBSYSTEM

Graphics (integrated)

AMD Radeon™ Graphics

CONNECTIVITY AND COMMUNICATIONS

Ports

1 USB Type-C® 5Gbps signaling rate
2 USB Type-A 5Gbps signaling rate
1 AC smart pin
1 HDMI 1.4b
1 headphone/microphone combo

Wireless

Realtek RTL8821CE-M 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (1x1) Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® 4.2 wireless card^[14]

Expansion slots

1 multi-format SD media card reader

Wireless Note

MU-MIMO supported
 Modern Standby (Connected)
 Miracast® compatible

MULTIMEDIA AND INPUT DEVICES

Audio

Dual speakers

Keyboard

Full-size, natural silver keyboard

Pointing device

HP Imagepad with multi-touch gesture support
Precision Touchpad support

WEIGHTS

Weight

2.07 kg

Package weight

1.71 kg

APPEARANCE

Product color

Natural silver

Product design

Paint finish cover and base, vertical brushed In-mould roll keyboard frame

DIMENSIONS

Minimum dimensions (W x D x H)

32.4 x 22.5 x 1.79 cm

Package dimensions (W x D x H)

6.9 x 48.3 x 30.5 cm

BATTERY AND POWER

Battery life

Up to 9 hours and 45 minutes^[3]

Battery recharge time

Supports battery fast charge: approximately 50% in 45 minutes^[5]

Battery type

3-cell, 41 Wh Li-ion

Power supply type

45 W Smart AC power adapter

Battery weight

210 g

Battery type footnote number

[23]

 

 

The last time I really even had to think about this stuff was last New PC i brought back when i7 920 launched (Thinking 2011 ish) knowledge of CPU performance is just zero and know next to nothing about ryzen is there some big oversight here anyone know of something around the same money that is better bang for the buck.

 

I do worry as this is alot of Money for me and making the wrong choice will take years to fix (To be dramatic 2nd child on way this is last chance of saving for something personal for a while)

 

Any advise would be most welcome 

Thank you.

[FI Fheonix]

6 minutes ago, Tehkast said:

Evening all,

 

Really been having issues over last year trying to find a replacement laptop that feels worth the money worried about getting sold short.

 

Budget is realistically £500 

 

I have a PC so that is all sorted for Gaming this Laptop would pure just be a workhorse I'm trying to learn to Code so something can drop in drop out carry around with me np is what I need.

Any suggestions would be greatly appropriated.

 

I'm to worried about going second hand to entertain that idea and thinking as not really after gaming the big brands would be fairly safe bet HP, Dell, Lenovo

 

From my searching come across some that seem fairly solid in my opinion but maybe I'm missing something obvious would love second opinion 

 

First see is https://www.hp.com/gb-en/shop/product.aspx?id=30A26EA&opt=ABU&sel=NTB#detailedSpecs £430

 

Operating system

Windows 11 Home^[38]

PROCESSOR

Processor family

11th Generation Intel® Core™ i5 processor

Processor

Intel® Core™ i5-1135G7 (up to 4.2 GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, 8 MB L3 cache, 4 cores)^[6,7]

Chipset

Intel® Integrated SoC

MEMORY

Memory

8 GB DDR4-2666 MHz RAM (2 x 4 GB)

Memory Note

Transfer rates up to 2666 MT/s.

Memory layout (slots & size)

2 x 4 GB

DRIVES

Internal Storage

512 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD

Cloud service

25 GB Dropbox storage for 12 months^[1]

GRAPHIC SUBSYSTEM

Graphics (integrated)

Intel® Iris® Xᵉ Graphics

CONNECTIVITY AND COMMUNICATIONS

Ports

1 SuperSpeed USB Type-C® 5Gbps signaling rate
2 SuperSpeed USB Type-A 5Gbps signaling rate
1 HDMI 1.4b
1 AC smart pin
1 headphone/microphone combo

Wireless

Realtek RTL8821CE-M 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (1x1) Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® 4.2 wireless card

Expansion slots

1 multi-format SD media card reader

Wireless Note

MU-MIMO supported
 Modern Standby (Connected)

MULTIMEDIA AND INPUT DEVICES

Audio

Dual speakers

Keyboard

Full-size, natural silver keyboard with numeric keypad

Pointing device

HP Imagepad with multi-touch gesture support
Precision Touchpad Support

WEIGHTS

Weight

1.69 kg

Package weight

2.2 kg

APPEARANCE

Product color

Natural silver

Product design

Paint cover and base finish, vertical brushing pattern with IMR finish keyboard frame

DIMENSIONS

Minimum dimensions (W x D x H)

35.85 x 24.2 x 1.79 cm

Package dimensions (W x D x H)

30.5 x 52 x 6.9 cm

BATTERY AND POWER

Battery life

Up to 7 hours and 15 minutes^[3]

Battery recharge time

Supports battery fast charge: approximately 50% in 45 minutes^[5]

Battery type

3-cell, 41 Wh Li-ion

Power supply type

45 W Smart AC power adapter

Battery weight

210 g

 

 

 

Next would be https://www.hp.com/gb-en/shop/product.aspx?id=4H2X5EA&opt=ABU&sel=NTB#detailedSpecs £370 (Something odd found about this one is if you have 4gb of ram instead it cost £70 more for less?)

 

SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS

Operating system

Windows 11 Home^[38]

PROCESSOR

Processor family

AMD Ryzen™ 5 processor

Processor

AMD Ryzen™ 5 5500U (up to 4.0 GHz max boost clock, 8 MB L3 cache, 6 cores, 12 threads)^[6,7]

Chipset

AMD Integrated SoC

MEMORY

Memory

8 GB DDR4-3200 MHz RAM (1 x 8 GB)

Memory Note

Transfer rates up to 3200 MT/s.

Memory layout (slots & size)

1 x 8 GB

DRIVES

Internal Storage

256 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD

Cloud service

25 GB Dropbox storage for 12 months^[1]

GRAPHIC SUBSYSTEM

Graphics (integrated)

AMD Radeon™ Graphics

CONNECTIVITY AND COMMUNICATIONS

Ports

1 USB Type-C® 5Gbps signaling rate
2 USB Type-A 5Gbps signaling rate
1 AC smart pin
1 HDMI 1.4b
1 headphone/microphone combo

Wireless

Realtek RTL8821CE-M 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (1x1) Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® 4.2 wireless card^[14]

Expansion slots

1 multi-format SD media card reader

Wireless Note

MU-MIMO supported
 Modern Standby (Connected)
 Miracast® compatible

MULTIMEDIA AND INPUT DEVICES

Audio

Dual speakers

Keyboard

Full-size, natural silver keyboard

Pointing device

HP Imagepad with multi-touch gesture support
Precision Touchpad support

WEIGHTS

Weight

2.07 kg

Package weight

1.71 kg

APPEARANCE

Product color

Natural silver

Product design

Paint finish cover and base, vertical brushed In-mould roll keyboard frame

DIMENSIONS

Minimum dimensions (W x D x H)

32.4 x 22.5 x 1.79 cm

Package dimensions (W x D x H)

6.9 x 48.3 x 30.5 cm

BATTERY AND POWER

Battery life

Up to 9 hours and 45 minutes^[3]

Battery recharge time

Supports battery fast charge: approximately 50% in 45 minutes^[5]

Battery type

3-cell, 41 Wh Li-ion

Power supply type

45 W Smart AC power adapter

Battery weight

210 g

Battery type footnote number

[23]

 

 

The last time I really even had to think about this stuff was last New PC i brought back when i7 920 launched (Thinking 2011 ish) knowledge of CPU performance is just zero and know next to nothing about ryzen is there some big oversight here anyone know of something around the same money that is better bang for the buck.

 

I do worry as this is alot of Money for me and making the wrong choice will take years to fix (To be dramatic 2nd child on way this is last chance of saving for something personal for a while)

 

Any advise would be most welcome 

Thank you.

I would go AMD because they usually have better thermal management and better power management. You can either go with the 5700U which has more cores and will be faster (raises price slightly though). Or you can go with the 5500U which will cost less and might be better. Plus it is also below budget.

[jaslion]

27 minutes ago, FI Fheonix said:

I would go AMD because they usually have better thermal management and better power management. You can either go with the 5700U which has more cores and will be faster (raises price slightly though). Or you can go with the 5500U which will cost less and might be better. Plus it is also below budget.

They should really opt for dual channel here. So add an extra stick of ram as eithout that a lot of performance is left on the table.

 

As got comparison its at worst 2.4x more powerfull than a i7 920

[Tehkast]

Cant get the ADM Laptop out my mind for £370 that seems too good to be true is there something very wrong I don't see?