Dell Inspiron 13 7000 Ultrabook/Tablet 2-In-1 with Intel i5-4210U, 8GB RAM, 500GB Hybrid HDD (8GB Cache), 13.3" Full HD (1920x1080) IPS Display - Usually £649. Now £509.15 @ Dell
I've been looking for a decent spec, high resolution ultrabook for the past week and this seems to tick all the boxes.
Dell have knocked £50 off it until 4th December bringing it from £649 to £599 and if you combine that with the PayPal code (presumably you'll need to pay via PayPal!) that takes a further £89.85 off it, bringing the total delivered price to £509.15.
The only thing that I would personally consider a negative, is the 500GB hybrid hard drive, rather than a full SSD. Whilst being a hybrid with 8GB cache, it should be noticeably quicker than a conventional hard drive, especially during start up, but it still won't be as fast a full-blown SSD. Apparently though. it's very straightforward to take the back of and replace the drive as it's just a regular SATA drive (unlike some ultrabooks) and with all the SSD deals going round lately, you should be able to pick up a bargain there, too!
Specifications:
Processor
Intel® Core™ i5-4210U Processor (3M Cache, up to 2.70 GHz)
Windows 8.1 (64Bit) English
8GB Single Channel DDR3L 1600MHz (8GBx1)
500GB 5400 rpm SATA Hybrid Hard Drive with 8GB Cache
1 year Collect & Return Hardware Support included with your PC
Intel® HD Graphics 4400
Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265 + Bluetooth 4.0
13.3 inch LED Backlit Touch Display with IPS and FHD resolution (1920 x 1080)
2-in-1 Media Card Reader: SD & MMC
Full size spill-resistant backlit keyboard
43 WHr, 3-Cell Battery
Dimensions & Weight
0.75" (19.41mm) / 12.99" (330.12mm) / 8.74" (222mm)
3.68 lbs
I'm guessing the "Get Deal" link won't work (it never seems to for Dell), so I'll put all the links and codes into the post below.
Link to Laptop (copy-and-paste this):
dell.com/uk/…top
Link to PayPal code:
paypal.co.uk/Sho…rs/
PayPal offer code:
NH?QXM1N4RL2SL
Dell have knocked £50 off it until 4th December bringing it from £649 to £599 and if you combine that with the PayPal code (presumably you'll need to pay via PayPal!) that takes a further £89.85 off it, bringing the total delivered price to £509.15.
The only thing that I would personally consider a negative, is the 500GB hybrid hard drive, rather than a full SSD. Whilst being a hybrid with 8GB cache, it should be noticeably quicker than a conventional hard drive, especially during start up, but it still won't be as fast a full-blown SSD. Apparently though. it's very straightforward to take the back of and replace the drive as it's just a regular SATA drive (unlike some ultrabooks) and with all the SSD deals going round lately, you should be able to pick up a bargain there, too!
Specifications:
Processor
Intel® Core™ i5-4210U Processor (3M Cache, up to 2.70 GHz)
Windows 8.1 (64Bit) English
8GB Single Channel DDR3L 1600MHz (8GBx1)
500GB 5400 rpm SATA Hybrid Hard Drive with 8GB Cache
1 year Collect & Return Hardware Support included with your PC
Intel® HD Graphics 4400
Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265 + Bluetooth 4.0
13.3 inch LED Backlit Touch Display with IPS and FHD resolution (1920 x 1080)
2-in-1 Media Card Reader: SD & MMC
Full size spill-resistant backlit keyboard
43 WHr, 3-Cell Battery
Dimensions & Weight
0.75" (19.41mm) / 12.99" (330.12mm) / 8.74" (222mm)
3.68 lbs
I'm guessing the "Get Deal" link won't work (it never seems to for Dell), so I'll put all the links and codes into the post below.
Link to Laptop (copy-and-paste this):
dell.com/uk/…top
Link to PayPal code:
paypal.co.uk/Sho…rs/
PayPal offer code:
NH?QXM1N4RL2SL
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Original Poster
CLICKING IT DOESN'T WORK FOR SOME REASON!
Link to Laptop:
dell.com/uk/…top
Link to PayPal code:
paypal.co.uk/Sho…rs/
PayPal offer code:
NH?QXM1N4RL2SL
clonezilla.org
Original Poster
You can create installation media by following the instructions here:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media
As far as the license code goes, I'm not sure entirely how it works, but I'm going to try and do a fresh install. You can use Belarc Advisor to retrieve your existing product key. Alternatively, I believe some BIOS have the key embedded in them, although I've not tried installing Windows like that, so don't know if you need a special version of the install media.
Hopefully someone with more knowledge on this will come along shortly and advise! :-)
Original Poster
Same resolution!
(if you go iPhone 6 Plus)
(_;)
Ones a fully functional pc, the other is a phone confined within a walled garden.
Dell machines don't usually come with disks. There is a hidden recovery partition which you can boot to if you need to reinstall the operating system. You need to put the SSD in an external drive case (usb3) preferably. (About £5). You also need a dvd reader/writer (about £12) It's probably useful to have one anyway. If you don't have disk copying software, you need to find a 'hi**n' cd. Google is your friend. It should be free. The latest version contains (amongst hundreds of utility programs, all of which are, it claims, shareware or freeware) some disk copying software. You make a bootable hi**n cd. It's a fairly straightforward matter to copy all the partitions to the ssd
If you've done this correctly, after you've put the ssd in, it should boot normally from it.
Windows 8 will probably notice that you've changed the disk and require you to activate it again on the Internet or by phone. This should be straighforward.
Original Poster
ultrabookreview.com/539…13/
Original Poster
Glad you've found it useful!
Just out of curiosity, did you both pay via PayPal or did it let you complete the purchase using a normal card?
multi-piece toolset or a spanner?
Just in case I get flamed...
Windows 8 doesn't come with a COA label with a code unlike Win7 and previous versions.
Absolutely not
I used Paypal...
Original Poster
Same here - I was just curious in case the code had still worked, regardless of checkout method.
PP
It quite clearly states it's a hybrid drive, not a standard hard drive.. for many this is more than quick enough
I recently swapped from HDD to SSD on my XPS 15, this site seemed very helpful - dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/a-c…-1/
Yeah, all you need is a hammer.
I have been keeping an eye on this for several weeks since they came out in the UK. I was miffed on the weekend when Dell were offering 12% off as, well, that was only 2% more off than the regular 10% off deals.
These two new laptops from Dell - the 11 and the 13 - are Yoga 2 competitors. The 11 inch is being sold in the US and global but oddly enough not in the UK - the 11inch got a superb review on the mobiletechreview website and youtube channel. But I wanted a 13 inch screen and this seemed a good choice.
It would have been nice to have it in Orange like the Yoga 2 but, hey, you can't have anything. What I liked more about this than the Yoga 2 is that it has a full HDMI and not a mini. Then it again it does not have an ethernet port. Odd, as the 11 inch version does. But you can pick you a USB ethernet adapter cheaply enough online these days.
I also went for the Dell Office 365 Home user for £60 - a fiver cheaper than Amazon. Shame that I missed out on the xbox live deal that was bunbled with it until the end of October.
Original Poster
I wasn't aware of the 7000 11, although I think that would be a bit too small for me at such high resolution.
I had been considering the Yoga 2, but the hard drive doesn't use a standard SATA connector, so it's not possible to upgrade it to a (regular) SSD drive without buying a special form factor (M.2 2280). Also, the memory is soldered on-board, so can't be upgraded either. I realise you can buy an SSD version of the Yoga 2, but it costs considerably more than the HDD version, plus the cost of a SATA SSD drive!
Original Poster
Fair point - I've updated the description to account for this. Personally though, I would have preferred a full SSD drive, even at a lower capacity than a hybrid mechanical/SSD drive. As it happens, I've got a 256GB Crucial SSD drive I picked up during the Amazon Lightning deals last week, than I bought in expectation of buying a laptop soon, ready to go in straight away.
Ditto about the Yoga 2's SATA connection and the soldered on memory. Put me off also. As you say, the SSD version is a stupid price.
Here is the excellent mobiletechreview of the Dell 11 inch - it looks really impressive. Not sold here in the UK yet though. I think 11 inch is too small for my needs... but I was tempted by it... hence why I waited for the 13 inch.
youtube.com/watch?v=haX6P3o_X78
Edit: The 11 inch is called a 3000 model for some reason. The 13 inch is a 7000 model.
Original Poster
Just looked at the specs of the 3000 11 - It's only a 1366x768 screen, so wouldn't have have met my requirements anyway! I'm surprised they don't offer a 1680x1050 version though for that size, which would seem like a good compromise.
I suppose they are competing with the other 11 inchers so want to keep costs down. It is more expensive than most other 11 inchers on the market but it a Yoga style device, has upgradeable RAM and the option to stick in a SSD so it could be quite a punchy little device to cart around.
Thank you!