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ISSUE 379|COMPUTERSHOPPER|SEPTEMBER (^20193)
H
ow quickly ayear goes by!It’s alreadytime for
our annual laptops group test, which we time
to coincidewith the start of the school
summerholidays. That’s when many of the
manufacturersand retailersstart to offer some
attractivelaptop deals, knowingthat there’ll be a
rush of studentseager to get ashiny new machine
fortheir start at school or university.
Handily,itmakes the school holidays agreat time
forall of us to nab abargain. So if you’re at all
interested in buying anew laptop foryourself or a
fortunateloved one this year,I’d recommendgetting
yourselfdown to the shops or browsingthose online
deals before the summerends.
To make your job easier,we’ve roundedup 24 of
the latest and best laptops (page 78). These start
from as little as £180 and go right up to £2,880 for
agaming behemoth,with lots of modelsaround the
£700 to £1,000 sweet spot forthose of you wanting
agreat performance/priceratio.
If you aren’t in ahurry to invest in anew laptop,
you might prefertowait forone of the upcoming
dual-screenmodelsshown off at Computex in Taiwan
to hit the shelves(page 17).
And forthose of you in the market forsomething
at the much lower end of the cost scale,we’ve got a
full review of the brand new RaspberryPi 4(page 18).
We’re all pretty blown awaybyits brillianceatShopper
HQ.How can you not be,with acomputingboard that
can supporttwo monitors, has up to three times the
performanceof the previous Pi model, and will soon be
able to play4Kvideo –all forthe same £34 price?
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