Two decent Lenovo laptops on sale at Harvey Norman. The Lenovo Ideapad 510-GV is $22 cheaper than last time, and according to PriceHipster the Ideapad 310 was $1697 earlier in the month.
Free Click and Collect with many stores showing stock or $7.95 standard delivery.
- Windows 10
- 15.6" (1920 x 1080) FHD Display
- Intel Core i5-7200 CPU
- 8GB RAM
- 1TB HDD
- NVIDIA GeForce 920MX 4GB
- Windows 10
- 15.6" FHD (1920 x 1080) Display
- AMD A12-9700P CPU
- 12GB DDR4 RAM
- 1TB HDD
- AMD Radeon R5 M430 2GB
Change out the spinner for your own choice of SSD
I don't see this as being a problem but a blessing lol
You need to do a reinstall or reimage to the ssd though
Takes like 30 minutes.
@VAA: If you're going to do a warranty just put the old HDD back in. Problem solved. There have never been any warranty stickers or any of that crap from my experience.
Interesting - the APU inside the A12-9700P has more stream processors than the R5 M430.
No TA deal then i guess?
Cheer OP. The A510 is perfect for my SO with her starting Uni next month. I would have liked an SSD but can do that myself. The mix of FHD screen, 7 series CPU and 4G GFX at that price is the best bang for buck IMO for any Multimedia laptop out there.
Reckon one of these would be worth for programming and large data analysis at uni? Looking around for the best deal I can find. Would also be looking to use it for a bit of Dota or other games once in a while. Would also be used to edit a few photos now and again when travelling.
15.6" laptop for Traveling + Uni? I personally wouldn't recommend, would highly suggest getting an ultrabook.
The clincher though, is that ultrabooks with discrete graphics cards are usually pretty pricey (expect to pay $1200~1500).
Examples of high-end ultrabooks that are rated highly.
ASUS zenbook UX310UQ
Xiaomi Mi Air
Lenovo Yoga 710
If you're a poor uni student and can't afford to spend beyond a grand, you should probably look at a Thinkpad E460 or a Thinkpad 13, which won't play much of games beyond Dota (but at least you can concentrate on your studies more)
Thanks for that Scrimshaw. Would it be worth definitely getting a gen 7 intel processor or would a gen 6 work pretty well anyway?
There is very little difference between the two, I wouldn't let it influence your decision in any way.
Kaby Lake (Gen 7) processors do have some advantages to do with clock speed responsiveness which will result in better better performance and longer battery life over an equivalent Skylake (Gen 6) configuration.
so the cashback thing is incorrect / not applicable isn't it.. as this is not HN 'BE' ? (sorry, i'm new to this cashrewards thing)
Correct. Cashback only applicable to Harvey Norman B&E and not Harvey Norman.
thanks the reply. that would have been a tad too good to be true :P
FYI if anyone cares they list the wrong GPU. Its actually got the NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 4GB
the fhd screens are nice
ssd phobia isnt
the R5 430 is only a 64 bit gpu
less said about the 920mx the better