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Posted 22 December 2012
HP Pavilion ULTRABOOK - was £500, now yours for just £339 (and possibly £51 Quidco = £288!) @ HP Store! New voucher for 15% off: 15OFFXMAS
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I spent the day (Friday 21st) looking for a nice laptop deal for my young nieces Xmas pressie. Yes, I really mean a whole 20 hours solid!
I initially noted HP had some cracking prices in their sale, with on average £100-£200 off laptops (34 models), which made them very good prices for a top brand.
Then I spotted a 15% voucher code: 15OFFVC
NEW CODE for 15% off: 15OFFXMAS
I was looking at the Envy Ultrabooks (which are lovely looking machines). But I plumped for the Pavilion Ultrabook™ 14-b006sa. This is currently on sale @ Very for £500 reduced from £580. Also a lower spec variant of this model (b005sa) is in Currys @ £480.
I have posted the specs. below, but we are talking a 3rd gen Intel (Ivybridge), with HD4000 graphics, 6GB ram, a SSD of 32GB which means a boot time of ~8 seconds (!!) as well as a 750GB SATA, HDMI, USB3, Webcam, SD slot, battery up to 9 hours and all packed in a sleek, ultra-thin 1.8kg package!
A modern budget Ultrabook of that spec. for less than £300 after Quidco. Fill yer boots! There are several other stonking deals on there.
To top it all - free NEXT DAY delivery - Which should (hopefully!) mean I get it in time for Xmas.
A blinding deal IMHO. But hurry the code ends Tomorrow (23rd) and Quidco is only 15% for 24 hours (till the 23rd also)! So that could mean almost 30% off already nicely discounted machines.
Hope this helps some folks. Time to go to bed now (03:15!)....
PS: The slightly lower spec. variant of this model (14-b003sa) with 4GB and 320GB SATA can be yours for £314 after discount and £267 after Quidco. Yes, that's £267 for an Ivybridge Ultrabook with SSD!!!! Its £430 @ JL and that's discounted! [great mini-review there too].
Spec:
Operating systemWindows 8 64
Product colour Sparkling black
Processor technology Intel® Rapid Start Technology
Intel® Smart Response Technology
Processor Intel® Core™ i3-3217U
Processor speed 1.8 GHz
Processor cache 3 MB L3 cache
Chipset Intel HM77 Express
Memory standard 6 GB DDR3
Memory layout (1 x 2 GB, 1 x 4 GB)
Memory slots 2 DIMM
Memory maximum Upgradeable to 8 GB DDR3
Hard disk drive partition Up to 24 GB partition for system recovery
Hard drive description 750 GB SATA (5400 rpm)
Hard drive (2nd) 32 GB mSATA SSD
Display 35.5 cm (14") HD BrightView LED-backlit (1366 x 768)
Display size (diagonal) 35.5 cm (14")
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000 (up to 1.65 GB)
Audio features Altec Lansing speakers with Dolby Advanced Audio
Webcam HP TrueVision HD Webcam with integrated digital microphone
Keyboard Full size textured island-style
Pointing device TouchPad supporting multi-touch gestures and on/off button
Network interface Integrated 10/100 BASE-T Ethernet LAN
Wireless 802.11b/g/n
Ports
1 HDMI
1 headphone-out/microphone-in combo
1 USB 2.0
2 USB 3.0
1 RJ45
Expansion slots Digital media card reader
Battery type 4-cell Li-Ion
Power supply type 65W AC power adapter
Weight 1.8 kg
New voucher for 15% off: 15OFFXMAS
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Quidco 15% extended until 30th December.
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I initially noted HP had some cracking prices in their sale, with on average £100-£200 off laptops (34 models), which made them very good prices for a top brand.
Then I spotted a 15% voucher code: 15OFFVC
NEW CODE for 15% off: 15OFFXMAS
I was looking at the Envy Ultrabooks (which are lovely looking machines). But I plumped for the Pavilion Ultrabook™ 14-b006sa. This is currently on sale @ Very for £500 reduced from £580. Also a lower spec variant of this model (b005sa) is in Currys @ £480.
I have posted the specs. below, but we are talking a 3rd gen Intel (Ivybridge), with HD4000 graphics, 6GB ram, a SSD of 32GB which means a boot time of ~8 seconds (!!) as well as a 750GB SATA, HDMI, USB3, Webcam, SD slot, battery up to 9 hours and all packed in a sleek, ultra-thin 1.8kg package!
A modern budget Ultrabook of that spec. for less than £300 after Quidco. Fill yer boots! There are several other stonking deals on there.
To top it all - free NEXT DAY delivery - Which should (hopefully!) mean I get it in time for Xmas.
A blinding deal IMHO. But hurry the code ends Tomorrow (23rd) and Quidco is only 15% for 24 hours (till the 23rd also)! So that could mean almost 30% off already nicely discounted machines.
Hope this helps some folks. Time to go to bed now (03:15!)....
PS: The slightly lower spec. variant of this model (14-b003sa) with 4GB and 320GB SATA can be yours for £314 after discount and £267 after Quidco. Yes, that's £267 for an Ivybridge Ultrabook with SSD!!!! Its £430 @ JL and that's discounted! [great mini-review there too].
Spec:
Operating systemWindows 8 64
Product colour Sparkling black
Processor technology Intel® Rapid Start Technology
Intel® Smart Response Technology
Processor Intel® Core™ i3-3217U
Processor speed 1.8 GHz
Processor cache 3 MB L3 cache
Chipset Intel HM77 Express
Memory standard 6 GB DDR3
Memory layout (1 x 2 GB, 1 x 4 GB)
Memory slots 2 DIMM
Memory maximum Upgradeable to 8 GB DDR3
Hard disk drive partition Up to 24 GB partition for system recovery
Hard drive description 750 GB SATA (5400 rpm)
Hard drive (2nd) 32 GB mSATA SSD
Display 35.5 cm (14") HD BrightView LED-backlit (1366 x 768)
Display size (diagonal) 35.5 cm (14")
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000 (up to 1.65 GB)
Audio features Altec Lansing speakers with Dolby Advanced Audio
Webcam HP TrueVision HD Webcam with integrated digital microphone
Keyboard Full size textured island-style
Pointing device TouchPad supporting multi-touch gestures and on/off button
Network interface Integrated 10/100 BASE-T Ethernet LAN
Wireless 802.11b/g/n
Ports
1 HDMI
1 headphone-out/microphone-in combo
1 USB 2.0
2 USB 3.0
1 RJ45
Expansion slots Digital media card reader
Battery type 4-cell Li-Ion
Power supply type 65W AC power adapter
Weight 1.8 kg
New voucher for 15% off: 15OFFXMAS
- HSpin
Quidco 15% extended until 30th December.
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sorted byI doubt it! In Britain today few people would have earned enough to make up for the saving...£500-£288=£212
Taking home nearly £11 an hour means that you are paid around £16 an hour before tax.
That's £640 a week, £2700 a month or £32,400 a year. Then you've got to take into account petrol, food and childcare.
I think spending a day saving cash for Christmas is great
oO
Brilliant. What an insightful comment.
Thanks OP, great price.
The whole basis of this site is to save people money which this deal is...otherwise it would be called hotukreviews.com, or maybe a better fitting name for a lot of people on here is hotukmoaninggits.com...
Voted hot from me
Merry Xmas
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You are comparing an £800+ macbook with something under £400. Are you that stupid?
I went for the HP Pavilion 14 – B006SA, the laptop in the title of this thread.
I work in IT and I’m into my computers (multiple 23” screens, SSD’s, RAID media servers for HD stuff, etc)
I am about to go traveling around the world for one to two years so I wanted a decent laptop. I have a small Samsung NC10 netbook which is great….but not really going to do the job for so long. My criteria was:
Light – I will be doing a lot of traveling so I needed it to be no more than 2KG. This one was 1.8KG….only 400g heavier than my Samsung NC10 netbook.
Powerful – I would be doing some photo processing, HDR photography and even some gaming if I get bored. Don’t believe the crap, the i3 is fine. Sure, it may not process a batch of photos as quick as an i5 or i7 but it will get it done fast enough. You never really ‘wait’ for photos to process anyway, you do something else like watch a video – you don’t even remember to check when it’s finished. Faster is better but not always the most convenient.
6GB memory is good, more is better but I was happy with anything more than 4GB (I have 16GB in the home system).
Cheap – It’s going to see the world. It’s going to get sand in it, maybe stolen, used heavily and likely broken. I can spend £800 and get some super macbook air wannabe, thinner and lighter but then I KNOW I’m going to be obsessing over it. This laptop was a good price for a good config.
So how is it?
I like it. It feels light, it looks thin. I’ve only had about an hour to play but I’m very happy – it does what it says on the tin. I don’t think it’s cheap looking, I’ve used Asus, Dell and Lenovo laptops over the years and this is good in comparison. It’s not cheap looking it’s just not flashy.
So what don’t I like? The case is glossy, so fingerprints do stick out and you find yourself wiping all the time! The keyboard isn’t that good….however this may simply be because I’m used to typical PC keyboards and not laptop ones – I’ve hated every laptop keyboard!
I don’t like the Windows 8 layout but you can make it look and work like Windows 7 so who cares?
Overall i'm happy.
Price, less %15,(Quidco), model, processor and processor speed Benchmark, weight, thickness:
Pavillion Ultrabook 14-b003sa..£369 £313 (£275)..i3-3217u....2264..1.8Kg..21mm
Pavillion Ultrabook 14-b006sa..£399 £339 (£298)..i3-3217u....2264..1.8Kg..21mm
Envy Sleekbook 6-1125ea.......£399 £339 (£298)..A6-4455m.1319..2.1Kg..20mm
Envy Ultrabook 4-1010sa.........£429 £365 (£320)..i3-2367m...1715..1.8Kg..20mm
Pavillion Sleekbook 15-b053a..£449 £382 (£335)..i5-3317u....3129..2.1Kg..21mm
Pavillion m6-1075......................£499 £424 (£373)..i5-3210m...3844..2.4Kg..26mm
Envy Ultrabook 4-1101sa..........£599 £510 (£450)..i5-3317u....3129..1.8Kg..20mm
(The i3-2367m...1715 is Sandybridge processor)
Not one part of your comment is true.
1. Overheating occurs if a component is faulty, or you have the air vents covered like using it on a bed for extended periods of time. No GPU/CPU will overheat from 24/7 use at 100% load unless it's faulty, that includes however many cores the CPU has in whatever configuration.
2. "it's 4 cores and hyper threads"........It has 4 cores and hyper threading technology, there is no such thing as "hyper threads". HyperThreading is a technology to make the operating system see twice the number of physical cores, theoretically improving processing that can be performed in parallel.
3."extra power of the i7"....again.....what!? That has nothing to do with it overheating, if anything it's the opposite, higher CPU speed generally has a higher TDP, either way you're wrong as a working CPU doesn't overheat unless it's been starved of airflow to it's heatsink. Intel CPUs are rated up to around 80c for continuous 100% load 24/7 usage.
4. "hardcore gaming"......What?
5. "Intense graphics editing".....This was the clincher that made me make this post......Seriously, do you always just talk randomly about stuff you don't have the faintest idea about.
....intense graphics editing indeed...lmao.
Is that like intense talking? Intense walking? Intense making a cup of tea? Intense....I dunno....
What is intense graphics editing? It's called "photo editing", generally photo editing applications don't make use of the GPU at all, recent versions of photoshop can use the GPU, but it's not "intense". Also, it's only really using CPU/GPU when applying effects, so we're talking long pauses of hardly being taxed at all...
It's just ridiculous no matter how you think about it, have you even used image editing software before?
Hardcore gaming, Is that like gaming after having had 10 coffees?
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Says the one coming on here posting comments that are helpful to precisely no-one.
The OP has saved tens, if not hundreds of people a lot of money, so stfu and gtfo.
Thanks
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Main factors for buying:
1. Below budget of £320 (£313 without quidco and approx £270 with quidco)
2. Lightness
3. 14" screen so portable
4. Great specification using latest intel tech considering the price
Unless I'm mistaken, there is nothing else out there that comes close to this laptop specs for the price paid.
This is my parents first laptop so need to keep it simple for them. Windows 8 tiles interface will be ideal for them!!
Stupid comment.
FFS - this is only costing those "poor people" £340 at worst and less than £300 if Quidco comes through.
"Ultrabook" or not it is still excellent VFM.
Just because your wife has told you your not allowed to keep it doesnt mean you have to be a grumpy pants.
Right then genius lets take your first sentence, I will assume you knew it had a 14" screen before ordering
and it weighed 1.8kg.
'were looking for something compact and snazzy, which this isn't.'
How would you fit a 14" screen in anything smaller ?
anything more compact ?
Perhaps a fold-able screen :-)
1.8kg for a 14" device is very light.
'Snazzy' - did you not look at the pictures or check any reviews before ordering.
Ultrabook - even my pet rabbit knows that is just a marketing term, like adding the word 'Turbo' to things.
Like turbo boost.
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Maybe you should go to ebay, but a "boat with a hole" that states faulty/non-working & then leave negative feedback when it sinks? At least then those of us who ordered this in full possession of the facts may get what they ordered in a timely fashion!
As for the folding screen option suggested by Nesima - classic - LMAO! I wonder if anyone has called HP to ask if they have it in stock in lieu of the non-ultrabook that they refused delivery of?
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The only difference is the main one in this thread has 2Gb more RAM.
Good screen, nice keyboard, a fairly solid slab of metallic speckled black
plastic, hinges seemed pretty strong to me, did not move when I twisted the
screen. The screen has a little flex but it is very thin.
Windows 8, I think I will like it.
What I didn't like:
1. No easy access panels on the bottom side, I think you will have to take the
whole bottom off to upgrade the RAM, HDD etc.
2. The disk access light appears to be on the right hand side where you cannot
see it without having to specifically look.
No connections or card slots on the front, also none on the back.
3. The USB 3 connections x 2 on the right-hand side were not blue, I thought
being blue was standard ?
For £340 it is a bargain, 14" screen and less than 2kg means it is a practical and
very usable ultra portable machine, I don't think it weighs much more than my
Samsung NC10 with the 4/6 cell battery (the biggest).
Nice little ASUS next to it for a bit more money with a metal finish.
But only a 11" screen, so less usable but more portable.
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follow these steps
1) go to h10025.www1.hp.com/ewf…061
2) download storage driver
3) extract storage driver with winrar (www.rarlab.com)
4) put the extracted drivers onto a USB flash drive
now we can either boot from external DVD or Flash Drive
use the USB 2 port on the left hand side of the laptop
turn laptop on and immediatly keep pressing F9 this will bring up the boot options
select prefered boot device ie USB Flash or USB DVD
when prompted press any key to boot from CD
it will now start setup but it will tell you no devices were found
enter you USB flash where the drivers are you downloaded and then select load drivers
the drivers are in the folder
sp59797\Drivers\AHCI\x64
setup will now find the drivers and your hard drive and partitions will now be shown
you can now delete the large OS partition and install to that
any problems or questions feel free to ask
for windows 7 the proceedure is the same only you will need to enter the BIOS first f10 when powered in and turn on legacy boot before you start installation
The other one worth a mention is the HP Pavilion dv6-6c11sa. While the processor is not all that the hybrid crossfire will give you reasonable gaming performance considering it should come out at about £319 after discount and quidco.
neither does the ipad mini and thats around 269£
(with quidco and voucher code, a hp laptop is about the same) and in terms of MACs with retina display. You're talking £1000 plus
I wish I had an uncle like you...
Nah, everyone knows that hardcore gaming is having a laugh playing on a rubble site with your mates. Can't beat a game of 40/40 or British Bulldog in amongst a massive pile of hardcore!!
No problem Well at that price it's probably worth considering:
> Pavilion Ultrabook™ 14-b006sa and 14-b003sa (The ones in the title of this deal) - At £339 and £314 respectively, both probably offer the best bang for your buck overall as far as the internal specs are concerned.
> Pavilion Sleekbook 15-b053sa - Slightly over your budget at £381 but it has an Ivy bridge i5 processor, bluetooth, and a slightly larger screen. However slightly less RAM and no SSD.
> ENVY Sleekbook 6-1125ea - £339 like the one in the title, however it has more RAM, better graphics (slightly), better keyboard, trackpad, build quality, design, speakers, Bluetooth, WiDi, dual array microphone, packs Beats™ Audio and comes with Microsoft® Office Starter. On the downside though it has a slightly slower AMD processor (still good for everyday computing though, and is actually faster in some cases), it also has no SSD, meaning boot time will be a little slower and the laptop may generally feel less quick to respond.
> ENVY Ultrabook 4-1010sa - Slightly over budget at £365, but offers almost all the bonuses of the ENVY Sleekbook above (minus the better graphics and more RAM), but also packs an SSD, and a 2nd gen i3 processor which is ever-so slightly faster than the AMD in the Sleekbook, however ever-so slightly less fast than the 3rd gen i3 in the first one (from the title). Unfortunately it also has the worst graphics of the lot.
All of the laptops above are an absolute steal at their respective prices, now it's just down to which one suits your needs best.
Hope that helped!
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Their choice, isn't it? I think that is their business rather than yours!
But you only have one eye, so we cannot really place much value on your thoughtful review.
Thanks for a mature and balanced review.
People need to remember they are judging and assessing a £340 device, something that is a tool
that will get used, not a Rolls Royce ASUS Zen Buddha slab of genius or a vastly overpriced ASUS
wanabee GayBook Air with deliberately built in design flaws to extract more money from sheep.
So the question is is it worth £340, is it sturdy enough to survive a couple of years of usage.
Lets be honest here how often do you upgrade your laptop ?
I reckon most people do it around about after 18 months [passing it on to family or a friend.
I don't see an idiot.
Just a conceited little twerp with a big chip. This comes from a bloke, who having bought a machine is informing all and sundry, he will be refusing delivery when it arrives. That is sick. Nobody asked you to buy it, yet you expect a company to pack it and deliver it. All for nothing. Hope you get you just desserts for that sort of action. How old are you?? 19 going on 9??
You don't like it, you don't think it's a good deal. Super, great, woo hoo for you.
Why spend so much time dissing people on one thread.
FWIW, I've bought one for my holiday home. People who stay there can use it and for under £300 it's a good price and as good as anything else i've seen in that price range. I researched it against similar machines and am more than happy with the purchase. That doesn't make me ignorant. Or is it, there's a good many idiots on here who don't exactly see a £300 purchase, the be all and end all of their life? I'm sure it's nothing to an all knowing big hitter like yourself. LMFAO at YOU.
The way your going on, some people will be expecting it to give them a free blow job, when they take it out of the box and to be fair, it appears it could be your best chance of getting one. So keep it. I hear it's got a few USB ports ;-)
So a bit of advice. Stop knocking the deal, trot on, have a gander and stick up a deal of your own that's better.
Then all the saddos like you can flock there and sl@g your deal off.
OP.. Well done and thanks for taking the time to post.
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Shouldn't need one - Windows 8 comes with built in version of Microsoft Security Essentials - does the job fine with little interruptions and doesnt bloat the system
It is a low voltage CPU, it is not going to have the performance of a full blown laptop CPU.
The Ultrabook has probably taken a personal dislike to you because of your attitude and
is therefore deliberately crashing to wind you up ;-)
And of course you never realised a 14" screen would not fit into a 10" or 11" form factor,
damned annoying that, bl@@dy HP.
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I have to say it is a thing of real slickness and beauty. Very high build quality. 17.3" of brushed Black aluminium and even an illuminated HP logo on the cover (nice touch). All the LED's are bright White. So, cosmetically it looks very expensive and has a lovely finish.
The 1600x900 display is lovely and really makes a difference in Windows 8. Also, the Beats audio definitely has more deep bass and power than your average laptop speakers (it's a 4 speaker setup).
Trackpad on this is first class. Nice and big (which makes gestures in Win8 much more practical) and also the buttons have a definite click to them. Two finger scrolling works an absolute treat.
Just getting used to Windows 8 (and it does take quite some getting used to!). However, I did spot a nice HP utility onboard called "HP Quick Start". I wasn't happy about installing the third-art "Classicshell", so I opted to give Quick start a try and it's great.
Surprisingly, this thing runs virtually silent and the HP coolsense technology really does seem to do a fantastic job of keeping it cool. Had it on for 6 hours now and it is still running cool (not even warm)!
Can't comment on battery life yet as just fully charged it, but it comes with a 6cell battery and 90w adapter combined with Energy smart it should be pretty good.
Overall for a genuine desktop replacement which feels so well put together, for £509 (and potentially £445 after Quidco) I am "chuffed to bits".
Brewer
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Have look here - makes all the difference.
reviews.cnet.co.uk/sof…46/
I always use TCB now, usually better rates & by far better CS.
Quidco became a joke in tracking ability.
To think I was gonna spend £1500 last week on a Macbook just because of its glorious screen! £1000 saved...
jealous? It's their business.