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I need a new laptop for university, it needs to be extremely portable with a decent screen size. Ideally with a dedicated graphics card and a SSD but I could live without either - I don't intend on doing much gaming/editing on it. 

 

My budget is about £450.

 

Does anyone have any recent experience/ideas around this price-point?

 

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I need a new laptop for university, it needs to be extremely portable with a decent screen size. Ideally with a dedicated graphics card and a SSD but I could live without either - I don't intend on doing much gaming/editing on it. 

 

My budget is about £450.

 

Does anyone have any recent experience/ideas around this price-point?

 

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http://www.amazon.com/LENOVO-G50-15-6-Laptop-PC/dp/B00TQFKZ9Q/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1426636615&sr=1-2&keywords=laptop

 

If you prefer an Intel CPU Let me know.

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Thanks.

 

That one is well within my budget but, as it is a laptop, I'm really looking for something that is pretty sleek and light. I think the G50 is a little below what I'm looking for, in honesty.

 

I don't have much experience with laptops but I really like the look of some Ultrabooks - although they are well out of my price range - I'd assume it would be possible to buy a new old generation Ultrabook/whatever AMD's equivalent is?

 

I just can't stop drooling over the Razerblade, that is one sexy computer.

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Thanks.

 

That one is well within my budget but, as it is a laptop, I'm really looking for something that is pretty sleek and light. I think the G50 is a little below what I'm looking for, in honesty.

 

I don't have much experience with laptops but I really like the look of some Ultrabooks - although they are well out of my price range - I'd assume it would be possible to buy a new old generation Ultrabook/whatever AMD's equivalent is?

 

I just can't stop drooling over the Razerblade, that is one sexy computer.

Lol, Ik. The Razerblade is WAAAAY out of your budget for sure. If you want something really sleek and light then go for the HP Stream 13 (http://www.amazon.com/HP-Stream-Laptop-Personal-Horizon/dp/B00O65HZKS/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1426653209&sr=1-1&keywords=HP+Stream+13). Or go with this Toshiba (http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Satellite-L15W-B1120-Convertible-Touchscreen/dp/B00REWQNXK/ref=sr_1_5?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1426653235&sr=1-5&keywords=laptop+with+ssd)

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Yeah I know, unfortunately. I probably could afford a razerblade but what's the point? I'm hardly going to be able to game on it.

The HP stream looks good (apart from its horrific colour!) but I'd quite happily spend extra for a sdd/depicted graphics.

I'm sorry, I should have done a conversion into usd £450 is about $650 I think.

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Yeah I know, unfortunately. I probably could afford a razerblade but what's the point? I'm hardly going to be able to game on it.

The HP stream looks good (apart from its horrific colour!) but I'd quite happily spend extra for a sdd/depicted graphics.

I'm sorry, I should have done a conversion into usd £450 is about $650 I think.

Ah Okay,

 

Now I can see if I can get you a better laptop.

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I need a new laptop for university, it needs to be extremely portable with a decent screen size. Ideally with a dedicated graphics card and a SSD but I could live without either - I don't intend on doing much gaming/editing on it. 

 

My budget is about £450.

 

Does anyone have any recent experience/ideas around this price-point?

 

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Here, http://goo.gl/tYf2Ms. Will that work for you?

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SNIP

 

 

You wont get a dedicated GPU (notihng actually good) for that budget

 

besides, you will have plenty of time to game at uni, if you decide to give yourself a bigger budget, 2 of my friends did Computer science at Leeds and 1 did Maths at Oxford and we gamed online a few nights a week

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Honestly, with your budget, you need to take what you can get. Even refurbished/2nd hand stuff you won't get a SSD or any kind of good dGPU. Your best bet is an APU machine for the decent iGPU, but then you'll lack intel's CPU strength.

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You wont get a dedicated GPU (notihng actually good) for that budget

 

besides, you will have plenty of time to game at uni, if you decide to give yourself a bigger budget, 2 of my friends did Computer science at Leeds and 1 did Maths at Oxford and we gamed online a few nights a week

 

I'm planning on taking my computer up after a couple of months so a dedicated GPU isn't essential. The more I think about it, I'm only going to be playing Quake/TF2 irregularly so a dedicated GPU is probably not needed

Honestly, with your budget, you need to take what you can get. Even refurbished/2nd hand stuff you won't get a SSD or any kind of good dGPU. Your best bet is an APU machine for the decent iGPU, but then you'll lack intel's CPU strength.

True.

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