I can return the laptop within 7 days, no questions asked.
The dead pixel thing is an extra £20 for a year or £12 for a month.
The dead pixel thing is an extra £20 for a year or £12 for a month.
You can always replace the hard drive with SSD later, but you simply can't upgrade the GPU and CPU in most laptops. Also, you may want to consider the weight and thickness. There are some super powerful desktop replacement type laptops that are great for gaming, but so heavy and bulky that they sort of defeat the purpose of buying a laptop in the first place.
Oh sorry, one more question …. Will the 660 be able to play 1080p movies without stuttering ? And would I have to reduce the resolution on games to play at medium settings ?
What do you think Lenovo IdeaPad Y580
Processor intel Core i7-3630QM
Hard driver 5400RPM 16GB SSD
Ram 8GB DDR3
Graphic Card Nvidia GT 660M
OS Windows 8
I can return the laptop within 7 days, no questions asked.
The dead pixel thing is an extra £20 for a year or £12 for a month.
LCD manufacturing has dramatically improved over the past several years so you are very unlikely to have dead pixels. It's not an entirely impossible though and since the screen is attached to the machine in the case of laptops, it does happen and it can be quite frustrating when its a bright stuck-on pixel in the middle of the screen. At 12 pounds it might be worth it for the peace of mind but you will be unlikely to need it. I wouldn't bother with the one year one at all though since this sort of defect is going to be immediately obvious the first time you boot it up if you take a close careful look at the screen. In either case it would be better of thinking of it as buying peace of mind instead of insurance because the risk is so low.
So if you buy it then it will most likely be wasted money and if you don't buy it there's a very small chance you'll have dead pixels that fall outside the existing ISO dead pixel specs and be out of luck. I'd be willing to bet you 100 pounds you won't make use of it if you do buy it - if that gives you some estimation of how much you need to or don't need to worry.
It seems a bit pointless to buy the dead pixel warranty if you can return it for full refund for any reason within 7 days. As jhwisner mentions, if your display has some dead pixels, it would be most likely evident when you boot it up the first time, in which case you can simply return it for refund.