New Laptop Budget 700-900

ugglasdav

Hi all

Old laptop is kaput so on the look out for a new one, have a budget up to around 900 mark, looking for something that has an SSD, and can be used for casual gaming the od time, but mostly for browsing, Excel etc

Want to stick with something windows based, would an i7 dual core be as good as an i5 quad? Not sure what's recent

Appreciate the help

ugglasdav

ugglasdav wrote: »

Hi all

Old laptop is kaput so on the look out for a new one, have a budget up to around 900 mark, looking for something that has an SSD, and can be used for casual gaming the od time, but mostly for browsing, Excel etc

Want to stick with something windows based, would an i7 dual core be as good as an i5 quad? Not sure what's recent

Appreciate the help

in terms of cpus i5 quad-core > i7 dual

what sort of games do you mean by casual gaming?

https://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/FX505DT-AL086T-ASUS-TUF-Gaming-FX505DT-AL086T_2550154.html

something like this for 700 sterling offers a decent 4-core Ryzen cpu and the newish nvidia 1650 graphics card that outpeforms by a fair margin the older 1050 ti card
it will run most games at 50 fps plus at 1080p
ssd and high refresh (120hz) screen included.
faster type nvme ssd.
probably has space for a hdd inside also if you want to add for more storage

or for £750 you can get a more powerful 1060 card and an intel quad-core
with an ssd and a hdd

https://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/30025006-Medion-Erazer-X6805_2431523.html

both of these are gaming laptops with 15.6 inch screens and are fine but not really designed for daily carrying in a backpack as 2.3kg

ugglasdav

glasso wrote: »

in terms of cpus i5 quad-core > i7 dual

what sort of games do you mean by casual gaming?

https://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/FX505DT-AL086T-ASUS-TUF-Gaming-FX505DT-AL086T_2550154.html

something like this for 700 sterling offers a decent 4-core Ryzen cpu and the newish nvidia 1650 graphics card that outpeforms by a fair margin the older 1050 ti card
it will run most games at 50 fps plus at 1080p
ssd and high refresh (120hz) screen included.
faster type nvme ssd.
probably has space for a hdd inside also if you want to add for more storage

or for £750 you can get a more powerful 1060 card and an intel quad-core
with an ssd and a hdd

https://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/30025006-Medion-Erazer-X6805_2431523.html

both of these are gaming laptops with 15.6 inch screens and are fine but not really designed for daily carrying in a backpack as 2.3kg

Thanks for the reply

Was having a look at the below, I'd probably game once a month so not really looking into a gaming laptop

https://www.currys.ie/ieen/computing/laptops/laptops/hp-pavilion-14-ce1511sa-14-intel-core-i5-laptop-512-gb-ssd-silver-10193333-pdt.html

this is better value in curry's / pcworld for 599. same 4-core i5, full hd, 256 ssd, 8gb ram, lighter than other one , better battery life.

https://www.currys.ie/ieen/computing/laptops/laptops/hp-14-cf1599sa-14-intel-core-i5-laptop-256-gb-ssd-silver-10192179-pdt.html