Rather a spur-of-the-moment thing but John Lewis (department store across
UK) had a clearance and I plumped for an ex-demo laptop.
It's an HP Envy 4-1103ea which means it's an 'ultrabook' (read: no DVD
built-in) and has a touch screen, a 3rd-gen i5 processor, 8GB ram, a 500GB
harddrive and a 32GB SSD. Sockets include HDMI to drive second monitor and
USB 2 and USB3. Of course built-in WiFi and Bluetooth but also WiDi (look
it up!)
And Win8. If it hadn't been for the touchscreen I'd probably have gone
back to Win7 but I'm slowly learning Win8 (in other words I'm learning how
to make it look like Win7 :-)
I'm waiting for my external DVD to come from Amazon so I have some stuff I
can't install yet, but I'm having fun playing with it :-)
End of news bulletin.
Jez
(for enquiring minds £595 with 3-yr guarantee)
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