help choosing between two laptops?

[dasulman]

Hi guys quick update, for anyone who cares

I've decided on the PCSPECIALIST SkyFire IV 14" Laptop.

For £506, I can have

i5-4210m
GTX-850m DDR5 (better than the DDR3 850m in the cosmos)
4gb RAM (will upgrade to 12gb myself)
500GB WD SCORPIO BLACK 7200rpm drive
900p screen (in all honestly I dont care about resolution, the 1366 x 768 on my 15.6" HP pavillion is fine for me)
No DVD drive (saves like £20, dont use DVD drives, if I did, I have a usb one at home anyway)
No OS (can get it cheaper as a student)

And then I can save £23 by having an i3-4110m, bringing it to £483 (probably wont do this)
Can save £10 by having 5400rpm drive as opposed to 7200rpm (not sure yet, still looking)

Or I can actually have a 500gb SSHD drive instead, for an extra £19, bringing it to £525

What do you guys reckon on the HDD/SSHD front? Should I plunge an extra £19 for an SSHD, save £10 for a 5400rpm, or just have the 7200rpm HDD? (all 500gb)

some solid choices here, but personally I would just go for the 7.2kRPM HDD, SSHD just aren't worth it with such a low Cache.
Oh and a juicy little tip - the Skyfire uses the GDDR5 version of the 850M, if you were to overclock it, you effectively have a gtx 860M.

 

[tazzz96]

Hi guys quick update, for anyone who cares

I've decided on the PCSPECIALIST SkyFire IV 14" Laptop.

For £506, I can have

i5-4210m
GTX-850m DDR5 (better than the DDR3 850m in the cosmos)
4gb RAM (will upgrade to 12gb myself)
500GB WD SCORPIO BLACK 7200rpm drive
900p screen (in all honestly I dont care about resolution, the 1366 x 768 on my 15.6" HP pavillion is fine for me)
No DVD drive (saves like £20, dont use DVD drives, if I did, I have a usb one at home anyway)
No OS (can get it cheaper as a student)

And then I can save £23 by having an i3-4110m, bringing it to £483 (probably wont do this)
Can save £10 by having 5400rpm drive as opposed to 7200rpm (not sure yet, still looking)

Or I can actually have a 500gb SSHD drive instead, for an extra £19, bringing it to £525

What do you guys reckon on the HDD/SSHD front? Should I plunge an extra £19 for an SSHD, save £10 for a 5400rpm, or just have the 7200rpm HDD? (all 500gb)

some solid choices here, but personally I would just go for the 7.2kRPM HDD, SSHD just aren't worth it with such a low Cache.
Oh and a juicy little tip - the Skyfire uses the GDDR5 version of the 850M, if you were to overclock it, you effectively have a gtx 860M.

cheers i might look to overclock it then... also, I may order no HDD from PCSpecialist, because the 500gb 7200rpm HDD is £38, and for £39 I can buy a 1TB 7200rpm HDD from dabs, with 64mb cache as opposed to 16mb (dont know if it makes much difference)