Personally, in terms of a cheap laptop, I like Lenovo and Asus. The laptops I'd buy are over your budget simply because our requirements are different.

If you don't mind me asking, what are you going to use the laptop for?

 

 

 

 

Take your pick

 

http://3xs.scan.co.uk/Category.asp?SystemMasterCategoryID=48

Those all seem a bit out of his price range or more powerful then he needs, also he said he doesn't need one for gaming, so buying a 'gaming' geared laptop will cost more than a non-gaming oriented one. Gaming branded laptops always cost more 1) Due to good specs/gfx card, and 2) Just because you call it 'gaming' you can expect people to pay a premium

 

 

He asked for an i7 and one under £1k and that's what I done. You aren't going to find many laptops with 8GB RAM and an i7 and it not being called a gaming laptop because that is a major selling point when it comes to i7 processors with good RAM in a laptop. Hell mine cost me £450 and it has an i3, 10GB RAM and a GT 640M and it's called a gaming laptop but I didn't pay a premium price?

 

Hmm fair enough, those are some odd specs for a laptop, how do you have 10G RAM do 5G sticks exist?

 

Yeah I guess a lot of the higher end laptop are classified as gaming, but many are not and just called 'ultrabooks' or business oriented. The one I linked (if converted) comes out to £438.21, but maybe wherever he lives it would come out to a bit more.

 

Yeah, we're all just trying to help, I just feel there are some cheaper options out there, thanks :-)

 

 

I have no idea how they done it, I got a free RAM upgrade when I opted for the SSD purchase so they upgraded it to 10GB RAM. When i get my laptop back from repair I'll screenshot the specs the DVD drive was fucked on it so that's why it's back with Acer. The problem is with laptops you can't really buy American and hope they ship it to the UK so he'd need to find the same laptop here which will cost him probably £100 more than the American price unfortunately. Especially if it's an import.

 

true that, im in euwest (the netherlands) and i don't if some stores even ship there lol

 

Personally, in terms of a cheap laptop, I like Lenovo and Asus. The laptops I'd buy are over your budget simply because our requirements are different.

If you don't mind me asking, what are you going to use the laptop for?

like i said, not much gaming, just standard stuff like downloadable client such as LoL etc. other than that, FL studio for harstyle, little (verry little :P) photoshop, programming and of course, botting.