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Asus x540 good deal or not?

StereoSound · 2016-03-26 13:43:48

Saw this deal in PC world, seems to be heavily reduced. For €359 is it worth it? I'm thinking the performance wouldn't be too far off an i3? http://www.pcworld.ie/Mobile/Product/asus-x540-156-laptop-silver/330238/408.0#ctl00_ctl00__nestedContent__mainpageContent_ProductFamilyDetailsView1_liProductDetails

26-03-2016 1:43pm

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Saw this deal in PC world, seems to be heavily reduced. For €359 is it worth it? I'm thinking the performance wouldn't be too far off an i3?

http://www.pcworld.ie/Mobile/Product/asus-x540-156-laptop-silver/330238/408.0#ctl00_ctl00__nestedContent__mainpageContent_ProductFamilyDetailsView1_liProductDetails

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#2 26-03-2016 2:24pm

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I wouldn't even pay that for it, bit of a joke if it's supposed to be heavily reduced. Nowhere near i3 performance and sits near the bottom of the charts in terms of performance across mobile processors. Performance wise it's punching at the €200-250 laptop normal price range.

For the same money this is incomparably faster - processor is way faster, and it also has an SSD.

Or less if you want the i3 but prefer a 500Gb standard drive over the faster 128GB SSD.

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