Anyone spotted any good laptop bargains in the sales. I'm looking to spend around £700 for a windows 8 i7 laptop with 6-8gb ram.

Try this one - http://www.johnlewis.com/231740124/Product.aspx?source=46387
Or this one - http://www.simplyasus.com/ASUS_N56VM-S4034V_1218891.html - and upgrade the OS for £15