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ASUS VivoBook X556 Laptop, Intel Core i7-7500U, 8GB RAM, 1TB, 15.6" Full HD, Black £479 delivered @ John Lewis
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Good quality laptop.
The ASUS X-Series laptop combines premium design with all-round features to deliver a superb value laptop for work and play. It's ideal for entertainment thanks to a Full HD display and SonicMaster audio technology, which work together to create an immersive gaming and movie experience.
New power
Intel’s 7th generation processor, codename Kaby Lake, is designed to make your laptop faster and more efficient. It’s purposely built to support Thunderbolt 3 and face-scanning cameras used for Windows Hello. Your laptop’s overall productivity will show improvement for flawless multi-tasking and playback of 4K Ultra-HD video will occur without delay or interruption.
High quality design
ASUS X series notebooks are designed to complement great performance with clean, attractive aesthetics, and the X556UA is no different. It features a tactile finish and premium feel to ensure you'll be happy taking it with you, while the chiclet keyboard makes for a comfortable typing experience and a gesture-enabled multi-touchpad ensures navigation is simple and intuitive.
Brilliant images
The screen on the X556UA features a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, or Full HD, making it ideal for watching movies on. It also uses ASUS Splendid technology to ensure colours are accurate, with automatic fine-tuning helping to deliver brilliant, vibrant colours. Splendid technology also includes various modes for different scenarios, so you can easily tweak the setting to bring the most out of movies and photos or take complete control with the manual setting.
The ASUS X-Series laptop combines premium design with all-round features to deliver a superb value laptop for work and play. It's ideal for entertainment thanks to a Full HD display and SonicMaster audio technology, which work together to create an immersive gaming and movie experience.
New power
Intel’s 7th generation processor, codename Kaby Lake, is designed to make your laptop faster and more efficient. It’s purposely built to support Thunderbolt 3 and face-scanning cameras used for Windows Hello. Your laptop’s overall productivity will show improvement for flawless multi-tasking and playback of 4K Ultra-HD video will occur without delay or interruption.
High quality design
ASUS X series notebooks are designed to complement great performance with clean, attractive aesthetics, and the X556UA is no different. It features a tactile finish and premium feel to ensure you'll be happy taking it with you, while the chiclet keyboard makes for a comfortable typing experience and a gesture-enabled multi-touchpad ensures navigation is simple and intuitive.
Brilliant images
The screen on the X556UA features a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, or Full HD, making it ideal for watching movies on. It also uses ASUS Splendid technology to ensure colours are accurate, with automatic fine-tuning helping to deliver brilliant, vibrant colours. Splendid technology also includes various modes for different scenarios, so you can easily tweak the setting to bring the most out of movies and photos or take complete control with the manual setting.
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Other than not having an SSD, what's wrong with it? Can you provide a link to something better for that price? Considering getting a new laptop, so it's a genuine question
what? you think having 8gb ram is more of a bottleneck than fitting an SSD drive.... an SSD will be far better and noticeable performance boost than if you added another 8 or 16gb ram
Other than not having an SSD, what's wrong with it? Can you provide a link to something better for that price? Considering getting a new laptop, so it's a genuine question
The build quality looks pants - there's a review on notebookcheck for a different model in the series; the casing is what you'd expect from a plastic laptop. Flex on the lid, warp on the base.
Though it is a laptop. If you want a metal chassis or flush compact glass touchscreen at this spec it'd be a lot more.
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It has a 7th generation core cpu. Remind me again which generation is current at this time?
Most i7's in laptops are dual core now, but quad core versions do exist that are used in higher end laptops.
Yeah. This is from 2016. But to be honest the laptop i7s from 2011 were quad core and bench higher than this, which makes this look really bad. But they were in very expensive machines so.. And this is a U version, which are lower tdp and thus generally weaker. The older ones were scaled back desktop ones, Like the same sandybridge architecture and stuff.
For that money, should have ssd in it on purchase
You can't get everything for the price, newest gen kaby lake i7 as well as 8gb ram and FHD panel. SSD is a minor upgrade, and if you sold HDD as I suggested you would probably spend anywhere between £10-£20 extra which is not a lot.
CD to SSD convertor
place operating system on a New ssd inside and your laughing
Keep the 1tb hard drive for documents etc
This is a 15w TDP i7 and the older 4 core i7 6700HQ benchmarks a heck of a lot faster 50% higher but with a TDP of 45w
My laptop from 2014 has a i7 4700mq in it. It drains the battery rapidly but from what I read in the thread will bench higher. I wonder if yours would also bench higher than the 7500u
It will i7 3630qm is 7594 this is 5250
what? you think having 8gb ram is more of a bottleneck than fitting an SSD drive.... an SSD will be far better and noticeable performance boost than if you added another 8 or 16gb ram
Best not to state inaccurate info for people who may not know much about computers and putting them off for no reason...U processors are dual core. I have i7 which is quad core on my laptop... i7 HQ processors are quad cores and becoming generally more common but obviously will cost closer to the 1k mark.
the gap between desktop and laptop is becoming closer and closer but obviously depends what your need is and how much you can spend.
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**spannerzone** yes 100%, as every one here is my witness.
1-Friends of mine have similar laptops to mine with standard as on the shop shelf RAM and experience freezing that I don't.
2-I've read a lot of horror stories where SSDs go wrong and loose every thing
I have 32GB as above, 24GB up from the 8GB that the Asus one here sells with. Fitting extra RAM tends to be easier and less risk prone
The pound is still very weak so what used to be an ok price is actually a decent one.
So you've not got an SSD drive then? You really are missing out and if you go over you will be annoyed at not doing so years ago, this isn't a guess it's absolutely the what everyone finds when they finally go SSD.
I have no freezing on PC's with 4GB ram and an SSD, perfectly usable, a hundred times nicer to use than any mechanical drive I've ever had. They're very reliable if you get a half decent brand and model. I'll never use a mechanical drive for the OS in any computer ever having had SSD's in desktops for 5 years now. Mechanical drives are so slow regardless of ram. I think you should give it a try.
Which SSD/ SSDs do you have in regular use for at least 6 months?
I've been considering a Crucial MX300, but it appears to have a short life expectancy
You strike me as the kind of person who knows nothing about everything and everything about nothing...
can you tighten this loose SSD so it's less horrific?
Unreliable - my Samsung 840 has 2 years usage logged probably about 4 years old and still at 100% health
save £100 and add ssd here