Right time to purchase?

Hi all,

I'm thinking of picking up an envy 14 beats (UK spec), going to cost £1100.
I was just wondering with the current state of things is it worthwhile forking out so much for that notebook?

I'm going to be video editing / photoshopping, maybe a bit of light gaming.
My last laptop was a dell 1520 and the envy seems ideal.

Also, the model I will purchase comes with a 500gb harddrive, does anyone here have experience of replacing this? I would preferably like to replace this with an SSD in the near future.

Thanks,

 

I would wait a month if possible, HP might have something new..1100 pounds is a lot more than I would pay, thats like $1800, unless you can find a better deal I wouldnt buy it (not sure how much they go for in the UK, so maybe this is a good deal). As for the SSD, its very easy to replace the hard drive, its right under the battery cover

 

Wow, Envy 14s cost a lot more across the ocean The laptop is great though and would fit your purposes well. I love mine.

 

I am american now but I was born and grew up in France, we have a 20% tax rate there...
Almost everything except food is more expensive in Europe. But that comes with nice perks like free retirement, education and healthcare.

As for buying now, at 1100 pounds I would say wait.
A refresh with new CPU and GPU might be coming in the next few month. It's worth waiting a bit especially if you have to spend that much.

edit :
interestingly I see the basic Envy 14 (i5-460,4gb,500gb) costs 999 euros in france and 999 pounds in the UK (both include taxes)

at a rate of 1.18 euro/pound , you would save about 150 pounds by buying in France ...

 

Yeah its kind of ridiculous how much extra we pay this side.

The problem is I kind of need a laptop NOW, the notebook I was using has completely died and I'm unable to continue business.

I was considering picking up a US Beats for £900 (with shipping off eBay)
But add the 20% duty and it becomes pointless.

Do they sell the i7 version in France?

 

your looking for an i7? Im selling my i5 beats for a lot cheaper than what your finding so far

 

Remember the i7 equals 1-2 hours tops. I5 can equal over 4. Don't make the same mistake many of us did (that is if battery life is of concern) because you don't have the 21 day grace period we do.

 

Of course a longer battery life would be nice, but if im spending so much I dont want to compromise the speed

I'm not sure if the standard adobe package uses quad core cpu's yet but for my video editing I think it would be a big improvement.

Has any one got any experience of running these sort of programs on i5 / i7?

Cheers

 

I read on here where a guy used both and said the i5 handled video editing great but the i7 was a little faster. You may be able to search the forum and find it.

 

i had an i7-720 for a week and replaced it with an i5-580.

I benchmarked both thoroughly, the 580 is only 15% slower than the 720.
IMO The 100%+ gain in battery is reallly worth the 15% loss in power.