Looking to buy a new laptop, current one is showing its wear. Currently looking at a time-sensitive deal and hoping some of you better-versed in this stuff can confirm if this deal is good or not.

It is for a Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5i 14 for £423 / $525. Comes with no OS however, would buy a windows key separately cheaper.

Specs are:

• 13th Generation Intel® Core™ i5-13420H Processor
  (E-cores up to 3.40 GHz P-cores up to 4.60 GHz)
• 16 GB LPDDR5-5200MHz
• 512 GB SSD M.2 2242 PCIe Gen4 TLC
• 14" WUXGA (1920 x 1200), IPS, Anti-Glare, Non-Touch, 45%NTSC, 300 nits, Narrow Bezel
• 1080P FHD RGB/IR Hybrid with Dual Microphone

Most resource intensive thing I would be using it for is probably just Ableton. Some gaming, but nothing too new or graphically intensive that's gonna be pushing be the limits too far I imagine.

Most I was looking to spend was probably £1k. But from what I'm reading I won't get a laptop with similar specs for this cheap.

Any help or alternative suggestions is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Seems like a good deal to me. More than qualified to run Ableton for sure

seems good but
see if you can find out what are the integrated graphics/video card, if you really wish to use for some, gaming @DwindlingSun

Ah yeah, that's where it's gonna suffer. I think it is just uhd 630, which won't run much at all well I guess.

I mainly just play older stuff now and again or indie games though, so might be alright for that. Something to ponder, thanks for pointing it out.

Something to consider for a similar price if you want to play newer games: dell.com/en-us/shop/cty/pdp/spd/inspiron-15-3520-laptop/nn3520ftech?gacd=9684992-1105-5761040-266906002-0&dgc=ST&gad=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw98ujBhCgARIsAD7QeAjh15vT4iFi22X7j1z8uigbMZyr5so8XTohmLuechT4YOMlQCQstAUaAq-IEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

I haven't checked how the other specs compare tho

Thank you, I'll take a look

buying the Inspiron 16 today w/ 16gb RAM and 1Tb Storage for Audio Editing, maybe some video production and editing.

Will let y’all know what i think when it arrives!

Dude for 500 that's a great deal.

Ddr5 ram

CPU is solid

And you can get Windows for free using the Microsoft Activation Script.

You might not even need it lowkey, the windows license is tied to the motherboard so it might just work

Thats 12th gen with ddr4

this is worse and they add like $100 because of that stupid pre-installed Windows 11

Oh damn. If you compare the playtests between the two laptops on youtube though, the one one I linked does run modern games a lot better

Thanks all for your help, ordered

Yep

What a find @op

Get to claim VAT back too so price is gonna come down to just £350

Basically half the price one of these should usually be