Reply to: What laptop

[GrumpyContractor]

+ 1 for the Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro

Plenty powerful, fantastic display and wafer thin.

Also, if you can get it from John Lewis, accidental damage cover is £100 for three years which is second only to Dells next business day offering.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Just reviving this thread to say how awesome the lenovo is. Thanks Crossroads, I was at a cross roads and I made the right call!

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Went for the lenovo, thanks for the advice guys.

[northernladuk]

Is the 2k barrier for VAT for a single item or for a single purchase (that might include multiple items)?

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=va...4Dg&gws_rd=ssl

[sal]

Is the 2k barrier for VAT for a single item or for a single purchase (that might include multiple items)?

I would advise you to forget Windows 7, it's going out of support next year. So the sooner you can get used to win 8.1 the better.

Lake already stated by others the pinnacle of quality is the MacBookPro although you will have to install the Windows additionally so it's not exactly out of the box.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

The good old FRS trap.

£1400 will put a bigger SSD in it.
£1512 with a 3 year warranty and accidental damage.

I'm sure you could find another £500 worth of accessories if you look hard enough!!!

Otherwise the default answer is a Mac

Really struggling to spend some money here! Managed to get it up to 1650 and that's it!

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Dell XPS 15 or if that is too big, the Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro. I have both. The 3200x1800 resolution is a huge help productivity-wise.

Both are available with I7 CPU's, both lightweight, the Lenovo is 13"-ish and a regularly run to work carrying it.

Windows 8 is fine, and both are touch enabled.

No issues with build quality so far, although I'd probably say the Lenovo is the better of the two.

Can't find anywhere with the Lenovo in stock....

[Crossroads]

Really liking the Lenovo, seems exactly what I need. Only thing is it seems to cost 1200, would it not be worth going to 2000 and getting 400 back on the flat rate scheme?

The good old FRS trap.

£1400 will put a bigger SSD in it.
£1512 with a 3 year warranty and accidental damage.

I'm sure you could find another £500 worth of accessories if you look hard enough!!!

Otherwise the default answer is a Mac

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Make sure you can give notice on it if you find something better while waiting for it.

Already speaking to another agent....

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Dell XPS 15 or if that is too big, the Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro. I have both. The 3200x1800 resolution is a huge help productivity-wise.

Both are available with I7 CPU's, both lightweight, the Lenovo is 13"-ish and a regularly run to work carrying it.

Windows 8 is fine, and both are touch enabled.

No issues with build quality so far, although I'd probably say the Lenovo is the better of the two.

Really liking the Lenovo, seems exactly what I need. Only thing is it seems to cost 1200, would it not be worth going to 2000 and getting 400 back on the flat rate scheme?

[northernladuk]

Make sure you can give notice on it if you find something better while waiting for it.

[Crossroads]

Dell XPS 15 or if that is too big, the Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro. I have both. The 3200x1800 resolution is a huge help productivity-wise.

Both are available with I7 CPU's, both lightweight, the Lenovo is 13"-ish and a regularly run to work carrying it.

Windows 8 is fine, and both are touch enabled.

No issues with build quality so far, although I'd probably say the Lenovo is the better of the two.

[TheFaQQer]

Doesn't quite fit the "out of the box" as you'd probably have to install Windows yourself, but I'd look at somewhere like PC Specialist and build it myself.

I did it with my desktop machine, but haven't had them build a laptop for me yet.

[TheFaQQer]

Moved out of General to save the silly comments! I got an Toshiba Ultrabook a while ago and it is a lovely machine, Win7 8GB RAM, 512MB SSD and it flies.

Sounds similar to the one that I bought for my mum, apart from hers has a hard drive rather than SSD.

[eek]

Well you will be stuck with Windows 8 if you buy a modern new machine as unless you are really lucky the drivers just won't exist.

Depending on what you plan to do I would just buy the macbook and a copy of parallels to install windows on. It just works...