HP 15" Full-HD Intel i7 1TB Touch Laptop Price: $499.99 Shipping Options:: $5 Standard Shipping Estimates: Ships in 3-5 Business Days. (Wednesday, May 25 to Monday, May 30) + transit Condition: Factory Reconditioned
All-around, a solid machine for everyday productivity and entertainment. The 1920x1080 IPS screen is especially nice to see for a 15" laptop.
The Achilles heel for this machine is that bog-slow 5400 RPM hard drive. The 1TB of space is nice, but if I were going to use this for a daily driver, I would replace the hard drive for an solid state drive (SSD). A budget 240GB SSD like the ADATA Premier SP550 would be a good fit, and you could place the 1TB hard drive in a external portable enclosure for bulk storage needs.
I got the 17" AMD A10 version a couple of months back, wirh nearly identical specs. Overall it is been working great!
Just a few comments. The HD is a bit pokey but boot times are not bad, especially with Windows 10. Only really bad when McCaffee (preinstalled) is scanning. I too would like to upgrade to SSD, but taking this beast apart will be difficult
Also, be aware that you may have to immediatly upgrade your Bios. I had problems with random wifi disconnections until applying that fix.
According to this it isn’t. He is saying that a quad core is better than a dual core (for multitasking). But not necessarily according to this link. as I understand it (please correct me if I am wrong). . .The i7 should use less battery than an i5 and a dual core with two virtual threads will be the same as a real quad core for many users.