HP Laptop (Intel core I5-6200U, 256 GB SSD, 8GB RAM, 15.6" Display) £349.98 @ Ebuyer

always see people complaining about these deals not having full HD screens like that is a. huge deal breaker.. yet the post gets 100s of heat.

if you people keep spouting about having full HD at the same price... post the damn deals and stop moaning. it's really annoying.

Wouldn't buy a laptop with a sub FullHD screen for 350. Just better options around.

Everything else is great, but it's all largely pointless if the screen looks like....

Sorry, £350 is too much to put up with a 1366x768 display. No matter what you're using your laptop for, that display is going to make the task unpleasant.

It's not a case of the display being "not the greatest" or "okay for light use" or any other 768p apologist nonsense people spout; 15.6" 1366x768 displays are horrible and anyone who's used a 15.6" 1080p (or above, though unlikely at anywhere near £350) display will know exactly what I mean.

Sure, it's not worth replacing a laptop you already have and are happy with just to upgrade from 768p to 1080p, but buying a new £300-400 laptop going into 2017 with a 768p display is absolute madness, in my opinion.

They don't do 1080 screens because of the simple fact that 99% of the general public wouldn't want or need it.

We've just moved offices at work and I've installed 30 new machines with 30 new 23 inch 1080 screens. All but a few have had their screens 'made bigger', ie a lower resolution and horribly blurry much to the disgust of myself and my tech.. In my opinion you shouldn't be allowed anything but the native resolution but if you made 1080 mainstream at 15 inches the first thing most people would do is lower the resolution.

I have a 15 inch 4k laptop and on some apps it's truly horrible but I wouldn't change it!

This is a great deal for a great laptop which will suit the general public.

6th gen i5 and 256ssd for £350.
heat all the way from me.
ok the display isnt the greatest but unless your gonna want to use it for high end movies or photoshop editing its gonna be fast for usual every day stuff
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Good deal, ignore the resolution snobs, for this price it's a good spec!

DocRobotnik

Wouldn't buy a laptop with a sub FullHD screen for 350. Just better … Wouldn't buy a laptop with a sub FullHD screen for 350. Just better options around.Everything else is great, but it's all largely pointless if the screen looks like.... Read lessRead more

​Can you post up these better options? Keep in mind you have to match or better both the price and rest of the specs.

All these people moaning it's not 1080 make me laugh, it wasn't many years ago that people were saying you don't need 1080p unless the TV is bigger than 32 inches but now it seems you need it from 3.2 inches. I know you sit closer to the screen with a laptop but really we don't all need 1080 for average use.

With 8GB Ram and i5 spec like this for £350 - I agree - you would be hard pressed to find anything that is sgnificantly BETTER at the SAME or LOWER price at the time of typing.

Worth it - and GREAT FIRST POST! Have some heat.

Fair play. :-)
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hashemcom007

No

I know I'm likely wasting my time, but why "No"?

Most people don't use ~100PPI displays at less than arms length for anything else, so why put up with it on laptops? Tablets and phones, even at the £300-400 price point, have equal or higher outright resolution and much higher PPI displays than 15.6" 768p laptops (or 1080p laptops, for that matter, but you're not getting better than 1080p on a laptop for anywhere near £350).

That aside, it's possible to buy decently spec'd 1080p display laptops in the £300-400 price bracket, so why settle for 768p and then have to put up with it whilst doing literally everything you ever do on your laptop?
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All these 'experts' whining about the screen without a single counter-deal posted. This is an excellent price for what's on offer. If you disagree I'm sure the OP would love to see where they went wrong with this supposed abundance of 1080p laptops of similar spec at the £350 Mark.

At this price and for the specs personally I think its a good deal, heat from me.

Yes FullHD would be ideal but your not likely get it at this price with the same spec's.

£350 for 6th gen i5, 256gb ssd and HP 250 must be hot.

Love to laugh at these deluded idiots so adamantly protesting against 1366x768 displays in 15.6''. Yes, your phone has better screen resolution.Yes, fullHD is better (often).
No, manufacturers will not change their minds because your cold votes and comments on hukd.

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I think a lot of people are getting drawn in by the core i5.

Its a 6200u which is the exact same processor as the Core i3 6100U without the 2.3-2.6 turbo.
Its CPU score is :

Core i5 6200U: 3930
Core i3 6100U: 3896

I personally would take a core i3 with a full HD screen over this any day

jayd95

I think a lot of people are getting drawn in by the core i5. Its a 6200u … I think a lot of people are getting drawn in by the core i5. Its a 6200u which is the exact same processor as the Core i3 6100U without the 2.3-2.6 turbo.Its CPU score is :Core i5 6200U: 3930Core i3 6100U: 3896I personally would take a core i3 with a full HD screen over this any dayRead lessRead more

Link your deal or pipe down

plus 1.72% cashback with topcashback.every penny counts.cracking laptop for the price 560 with debenhams
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If it wasn't ebuyer, than maybe...

Thanks for the heat and the comments guys! While of course everyone would prefer a higher resolution... at this price point and even up to the £450 mark its fairly common to have the 768p resolution on the 15.6" screen so it really comes down to trade offs between the components.

You can go find a laptop with a full HD screen but if it's with an intel i5 processor, 8GB RAM and 256 GB SSD for less than even £500 I will take my hat off to you!

The HD screen lovers make it sounds like a serious medical condition having to use a non hd screen...

It is not, obviously it is nicer to have one but again please post something with even close to this spec with one at this price.

Thanks op and don't be discouraged by the usual replies

The clock on my microwave has a better screen resolution than this laptop.

Lesson 15b: How to cause mayhem and pointless arguementative clap trap on HUKD:

1:/ post a laptop deal with 768x1366 resolution
2:/ wait 6.24seconds for first comment on the resolution
3:/ sit back and watch the bun fight explode as keyboard warriors, self appointed IT experts and random troll baiters join in.


Well done OP, for a first post you've done very well in completing lesson 15b at HUKD.

My new year's resolution is 1080

matt101101

Sorry, £350 is too much to put up with a 1366x768 display. No matter what … Sorry, £350 is too much to put up with a 1366x768 display. No matter what you're using your laptop for, that display is going to make the task unpleasant. It's not a case of the display being "not the greatest" or "okay for light use" or any other 768p apologist nonsense people spout; 15.6" 1366x768 displays are horrible and anyone who's used a 15.6" 1080p (or above, though unlikely at anywhere near £350) display will know exactly what I mean. Sure, it's not worth replacing a laptop you already have and are happy with just to upgrade from 768p to 1080p, but buying a new £300-400 laptop going into 2017 with a 768p display is absolute madness, in my opinion.Read lessRead more

No

DocRobotnik

Wouldn't buy a laptop with a sub FullHD screen for 350. Just better … Wouldn't buy a laptop with a sub FullHD screen for 350. Just better options around.Everything else is great, but it's all largely pointless if the screen looks like....Read lessRead more

DocRobotnik

Wouldn't buy a laptop with a sub FullHD screen for 350. Just better … Wouldn't buy a laptop with a sub FullHD screen for 350. Just better options around.Everything else is great, but it's all largely pointless if the screen looks like....Read lessRead more

If my 170 quid chromebook has a Full HD screen they can afford to put it on 3-400+ laptops, its an absolute joke

Good specs tho for the price

if you can be bothered and dont mind messing the warranty up you shoud be able upgrade the screen panel to a full hd 1080p. done this on a few hp 450 g2's and it take about 10 minutes max.

fair play r kid
hot from me

To all the 768p lovers try using a 1080p laptop for a decent amount of time then you will realise just how horrendous these 768p screens are. It's not resolution snobbery lol it's about user experience. I also found a big difference in having one for my work laptop so looking at it all day long was far better for my eye sight/less headaches than the years i'd spent looking at a blury (in comparison) 768p screen.

For me the Lenovo 14" 2-in-1 for £349 at Currys with i3 and128gb ssd but 1080p screen is a better choice. People think i3 must be rubbish but it has a better cpubenchmark score than my gen 4 i7 in what was at the time a £750 laptop. I bought one for my Son and it's surprisingly quick so unless you 'need' an i5 latest gen i3s are plenty fast enough for everyday use. In fact just checked the cpubenchmarks and as I suspected the i5 in this and the i3 in the Lenovo are as near as damn it identical in performance (only 34 points difference which is negligible). People get too hung up on the i5 model thinking it's so above an i3 but it's all down to cpu models and a quick cpubenchmark check will tell you what you are getting.

My experience with low end HP laptops are that they are horrible, nasty keyboards and nasty looking/designed casing worse than other brands at the same price point and would never buy one again. High end such as the Spectre range are obviouly amazing bits of kit and where HP excel.

It's easy enough and cheap enough to stick a 256gb ssd in any modern laptop but I can appreciate those who don't care about a decent screen this is a decent spec budget laptop for the money.


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matt101101

Sorry, £350 is too much to put up with a 1366x768 display. No matter what … Sorry, £350 is too much to put up with a 1366x768 display. No matter what you're using your laptop for, that display is going to make the task unpleasant. It's not a case of the display being "not the greatest" or "okay for light use" or any other 768p apologist nonsense people spout; 15.6" 1366x768 displays are horrible and anyone who's used a 15.6" 1080p (or above, though unlikely at anywhere near £350) display will know exactly what I mean. Sure, it's not worth replacing a laptop you already have and are happy with just to upgrade from 768p to 1080p, but buying a new £300-400 laptop going into 2017 with a 768p display is absolute madness, in my opinion.Read lessRead more

Some time ago I would have disagreed, but now I appreciate a quality screen. I spent a few years using an XPS 17 which had an excellent display with vibrant colours. The Clevo I replaced it with had an awful dull screen with backlight bleed. When I look at laptop reviews now I tend to focus on the screen because that's the one thing you use 100℅ of the time on a laptop and it needs to be a worthwhile experience.
The rest of the specs look really good for £350 though.

Posted 3 weeks ago. Been in stock throughout
hotukdeals.com/dea…327

Honestly people. There are bigger problems in the world than hd screens...... heated for the deal, stop bleating and have a nice new year everyone

The HEAT that this "deal" has generated as you VERY FIRST DEAL - and over 117 comments - @ 1174 degrees shows - that no matter how hard some try to pursuade others to the contrary - this IS as far as the majority are concerned - a very GOOD deal - at the time of posting - and with all other things taken into consideration.

PC pureists can argue till the cows come home - but some other members of the public dont use their lappy for the same purposes as gaming and MUST have HD etc....

Keep up with the good postings!

At 350, i5 is rare. This has a large ssd, 8gb ram, made by hp in addition to the i5.

This is an excellent deal but as others have said real world you will notice the sub Full HD screen more than going to an i3 CPU.

looks like a good deal, decent spec and HP quality.

pr2thej

Link your deal or pipe down

the Lenovo Yoga deal thats already on here is a much better deal, better build quality and a full hd ips screen 8 hour battery life, the list goes on......

and here is my link: hotukdeals.com/dea…e=9 (edited)

I'd rather have the worst laptop imaginable with a high resolution IPS screen than use this. The screen is literally how you interact with the PC and a terrible 768p TN screen is just torture in this day and age.

You people are insane, this would be a deal, maybe at 279 not 349 :-O

the folks complaining about the resolution "problem"... Look at the heat.

Ciao!
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jayd95

Thats only true if the application itself doesn't support scaling, i dont … Thats only true if the application itself doesn't support scaling, i dont undestand in which use case you would need to lower the resolution on a 23 inch display at 1080p.Im not saying you dont prefer higher resolutions im just saying that most normal people dont understand the difference between 1366x768 and 1920x1080 it is not a fact that they prefer lower resolutions because it looks bigger. Like i have said if you took a group of people into Pcworld and showed them the display on this laptop which ive seen in person and its towards the very bad end of terrible displays then showed them a Full HD IPS panel on another laptop theres no way they would choose this display.Its all about educating the buyer, they dont know the difference but if they did they would appreciate it, you have a 15 inch 4k display which i bet you dont use without windows scaling?, if the average consumer knew like you and i do about good quality IPS displays and the ability to use scaling properly they would never buy a 1366x768 display again and we would finally force manufacturers to include them as standardRead lessRead more

Sorry but all of your post can be negated by this one simple fact:
£349.98

Agree with everyone that says the resolution is too low nowadays, I personally couldn't consider a laptop with such a lew res display. However for the price this is a fantastic spec laptop, so for people who aren't bothered its a cracking deal.
Voting it cold or telling people not to buy it because you would rather spend more on something nicer/better is like saying no one should buy any budget-mid range cars because the Porsche and Ferraris are nicer. Yes they are, but not everyone wants to pay a premium for the best features.

DocRobotnik

Wouldn't buy a laptop with a sub FullHD screen for 350. Just better … Wouldn't buy a laptop with a sub FullHD screen for 350. Just better options around.Everything else is great, but it's all largely pointless if the screen looks like....Read lessRead more

Agree exactly, sorry op