Laptop deals of the week: A gaming laptop with a GTX960 GPU for under £750

Whether you're eyeing a bog-standard laptop or a flashy MacBook Air, the techradar laptop deals of the week page is where you can find the best offers on notebooks, neatly organised in six categories to offer you an intuitive way to find your perfect device. By now, you will have heard about the hack that hit UK broadband provider, Talktalk. Details (including credit card details and emails) of more than four million customers have apparently been accessed by the yet-to-be-named hacker(s).
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1. techradar's laptop deal of the week

HP ProBook 455 G2

• Laptop: HP ProBook 455 G2
• Price: From £130 from Dabs

For the second week running, we selected the HP ProBook 455 to be our laptop deal of the week. The deal lasts for another eight days so you will need to hurry up as stocks may dwindle fast. Buy that laptop from online retailer Dabs, fill some paperwork and get up to £225 (£50 straight cashback and £175 for a trade-up). The laptop is a business-oriented model that carries the code G6W44EA. You will need to read the terms and conditions for the cashback and trade up as some strict rules apply. The ProBook 455 G2 uses an AMD A8-7100 APU paired with 4GB of RAM and a 500GB HDD.

Worth Considering

Deals are not always about grunt. The Lenovo B50-30, for example, has appeared on this deals page several times before but this one is a particularly enticing from Ebuyer at £179.99, a price that includes next day delivery as well as a free copy of Bullguard Internet security for three users. Nice! The only serious flaw of that laptop at this price is the processor, a slow Intel Celeron N2840 CPU clocked at 2.16GHz. If you can live with it then the 4GB of RAM, Windows 10 and 500GB hard disk drive will be more than sufficient for most mundane tasks; no games though.

2. Chromebook/Netbook deal of the week

HP Stream 11

• Laptop: HP Stream 11 Pro
• Price: £149 at CCL

Yet another week, yet another clean sweep from HP's Stream 11 Pro Windows-based laptop. The company's "cloud first" design brings in some business-class features that will be useful for a mobile workforce. From a minimalist construction to enterprise-grade TPM encryption, the Stream 11 Pro, which costs £149.98 at CCL, even comes with 200GB of online cloud storage (courtesy of Microsoft) for 24 months worth over £90. The specification list however is a familiar one: 2GB of RAM, a 11.6-inch 1366x768 pixel resolution, 32GB primary storage and the ubiquitous Intel Celeron N2840 processor. For a device that compact, it did manage to include a surprising number of connectors as well.

Worth considering

Until the end of October, you can grab the Toshiba Chromebook CB30-B for £239.95 at John Lewis, a better deal compared to last week's one especially as it comes with double the warranty (two years). There's two features that make this MacBook Air doppelganger worth buying: 4GB of system memory - a rarity on such a laptop and the 13.3-inch LED backlit TruBrite display which has a 1920x1080 pixel resolution, far higher than the rest of the competition. An Intel Celeron N2840, 16GB of storage and 802.11ac connectivity are also part of the deal.

3. Gaming laptop deal of the week

Medion Erazer X7835

• Laptop: Medion Erazer X7835
• Price: £1199 at Medion

There is an untold rule in the world of portable gaming that the more powerful a gaming laptop is, the bulkier and heavier it will be. Take the Medion Erazer X7835 for example. This is a beast that weighs nearly 3.5Kg and is over 60mm thick. It is also a powerful gaming notebook, one that comes with a GTX980M with 4GB of GDDR5 memory, a quad-core Haswell-based Core i7 processor paired with 16GB of dual-channel RAM, a 128GB SSD backed by a 1TB hard disk drive, a 17.3-inch full HD display, Dolby Home Theater-compatible 2.1 speaker setup and even a Blu-ray drive.

Worth considering

If your budget doesn't extend to four figures but you still want to play the latest games, then consider the Zoostorm 7260. It costs £745 which might sound a lot for a laptop but is actually quite cheap for a gaming one. What makes it a worthwhile bargain is the fact that it packs a quad-core Core i5 processor clocked at 3.5GHz together with a GTX 960M GPU equipped with 2GB GDDR5 memory. Add in a full HD 15.6-inch IPS display, 8GB of RAM (double it to make full use of the dual-channel), 120GB SSD AND a 1TB SSHD drive and you get a very compelling gaming notebook.

4. Ultrabook deal of the week

Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro

• Laptop: Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro
• Price: £729.99 at Lenovo

Lenovo is clearing out the Yoga 3 Pro ahead of the widespread introduction of the Lenovo Yoga 900. The Y3P, as it is commonly known, can now be had with a 14% price reduction which brings it down to a slightly more palatable £729.99. That is relatively cheap considering the specifications: a gorgeous 13.3-inch QHD+ touchscreen display, THAT incredible hinge that allows it to convert to an ultra thin tablet, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD cap what is certainly one of the best Ultrabooks on the market. Just bear in mind that only the grey model is available at this price.

Also consider

It is one of the cheapest Ultrabook laptops on the market and is also one of the best value for money as well. Meet the Asus Zenbook UX305, a model that costs only £599.97 at PC World and promises up to seven hours battery life. It runs on an Intel Core M processor together with a 13.3-inch full HD display, 8GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD. Asus engineers somehow managed to cram three USB 3.0 ports and a HDMI one as well. At just under 1.2Kg, the UX305 fails to match the likes of the new MacBook when it comes to battery life or svelteness but then, it is almost half cheaper.

5. 2-in-1 hybrid deal of the week

Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro

• Laptop: Toshiba Protégé Z10T
• Price: £450 at CCL

A lot of 2-in-1 hybrid laptops tend to have entry-level components in order to keep prices down. That's not the case of the Toshiba Portege Z10T which is a tablet with an active keyboard docking station. It is part of Toshiba's business portfolio and is classed as a VPro-capable ultrabook. You get a dual-core Intel Core i5-4220Y processor clocked at 1.5GHz, 4GB of RAM, a 128GB SSD and a 11.6-inch full HD IPS display. Even though it is an ultra portable device, it still features two USB ports, a micro HDMI one as well as a Gigabit connector. As expected, it runs on Windows 8.1 Professional and will be upgradable to Windows 10.

Also Consider

If you want something slightly different to the Asus Transformer Book of last week, then check out the TF100TAM. This 2-in-1 hybrid costs £274.99 at Expansys and while it doesn't include the 500GB drive, it does make up for it by having a more powerful processor, the Z3775, a bigger internal storage capacity (64GB) and a better battery life (up to 11 hours according to Asus). The rest of the specification remains the same: a detachable keyboard, a 10.1-inch 1366x768 display, 2GB of RAM, one year subscription to Microsoft Office 365 Personal and Windows 8.1 (upgradable to Windows 10).

6. Apple deal of the week

Apple MacBook Pro RD

• Laptop: Apple MacBook Pro 13.3-inch (2015)
• Price: £899.99 at Ebay/Zavvi

If you haven't tried Ebay to buy your laptop, then it is well worth the while. Many retailers (PC World, Dabs) often try to flog clearance or end-of-line products but not always. Zavvi, for example, sells the 2015 edition of the popular Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display on eBay. It features a dual-core Intel Core i5 CPU clocked at 2.7GHz, 8GB of RAM and 128GB flash storage, which may well be too low for some users. Other than the acclaimed Force Touch trackpad, this laptop also comes with a 13.3-inch 2560x1600 WQXGA display.

Also consider

The new Apple Macbook Air, on sale on eBay via e_cell, costs just under £690, a small but welcomed discount from Apple's RRP of £749. Much has already been written on that ground-breaking laptop; just bear in mind that this is an imported model but still has the full Apple warranty. This particular model comes with a dual-core Intel Core i5-5200U processor, an 11.6-inch LED display with a rather disappointing 1366x768 pixel resolution, 4GB of RAM, 128GB flash storage and a 38Whr battery which should power the laptop for up to nine hours.