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B u y I tu y I t Our p ick of products that have won t he Buy I t a ward
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LAPTOP DESKTOP P C APPLE i P A D
AsusZenBook U X310UA Wired2FirePyroReactor AppleiPad9.7in
£700 from www.snipca.com/26126 £1,025 from www.snipca.com/26219 £339 from www.snipca.com/24079
T e sted: Issue 503 T e sted: Issue 516 T e sted: Issue 500

AMD’s s ix-core R yzen 5 1 600X is The replacement for t he iPad Air 2 i sreplacement for t he iPad Air 2 i
Gradually b eing replaced by the 4 10 overclocked to a b lazing 3 .8GHz in this slightly bulkier and h as a d owngraded
(which we haven’t t ested yet), the i 5 well-balanced s ystem, paired with a screen b ut remains t he best mid-sized
processor version of this i s n ow harder GTX 1 060 g raphics card, 1 6GB m emory, tablet, with a s ensible 3 2GB o f s torage.
to find, but the i 3 v ersion is more t han 250GB SSD a nd 1TB h ard d rive. Th e Y o u’ll need the £ 619 i Pad P ro if you
good enough f or general use. The case is limited b ut it has plenty o f p orts. want to use t he Pencil s tylus ( £99).
highlight is the s uper-sharp QHD s creen.
ALTERNATIVE: Palicomp i5 Titanium ALTERNATIVE: iPad Mini 4 The smaller
ALTERNATIVE: Dell XPS 1 3 This Good all-round performance f rom a 7.9in i Pad i s e xcellent, but Apple’s
premium laptop starts at £1,149, b ut Kaby Lake Intel i5 processor with a decision to sell it only with a h uge 128GB
our p ick is the i 7 w ith Q HD touchscreen. 250GB SSD a nd 1TB h ard d rive. makes i t u nreasonably e xpensive. £ 419
£1,379 from www.snipca.com/26123 £500 from www.snipca.com/24543 from www.snipca.com/24080

ANDROID T ABLET PRICE APPLE i PHONE ANDROID P HONE

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SamsungGalaxyTab S 3 9 .7b S 3 9 .7 AppleiPhone S E MotorolaMotoG4
£500 from www.snipca.com/24140 £349 from www.snipca.com/24854 £165 from www.snipca.com/21685
om/24140
T e sted: Issue 501 T e sted: Issue 474 T e sted: Issue 479
T e sted: Issue 474

Hanging o n f or a t hird y ear, Apple’sin
Ha f t hirdrd A le le’s’s
m id-sized t ablet h as aett ablett abletetetd-sized t able
Samsung’s news n ew mid-sizeds n ew mid-sizedg’sss n e w w mi smaller phone is deservedly popular,
wonderful H DR screen a nd comes w ith challenging A ndroid rivals with decent With an attractive 5.5in s creen, an
a p en included, unlike A pple’s i Pad P ro. processing p ower, a g reat screen a nd excellent 13-megapixel c amera,a
But its p rocessor isn’t t he fastest and i t’s camera, fingerprint recognition and 13-hour b attery and d ecent performance,
disappointingly e xpensive, e specially Apple P ay. 3 2GB o f s torage should the G 4 i s t he best budget option.
compared to the £ 339 iPad 9.7in. suffice, but there’s n o m icroSD.
ALTERNATIVE: Samsung Galaxy S8
ALTERNATIVE: Asus ZenPad 3S 10 ALTERNATIVE: iPhone 8 Expensive and The wraparound screen l ooks s tunning
With eight-hour b attery life a nd 4GB a b it fragile, but superbly e quipped. If and t his t op-end phone has no real
of memory for f ast m ultitasking, this you c an manage with 32GB, c onsider flaws. N ow that it’s getting d iscounted a
iPad-like 9.7in t ablet i s g reat value. the i Phone 7 a t £ 150 less. £699 from bit, even the p rice m ight not p ut us off.
£300 from www.snipca.com/24858 www.snipca.com/25789 £518 from www.snipca.com/24857

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