Advice on new Laptop Pls

turninggreen

Hi,

Looking for advice on a new laptop. I have a 10yr old Dell Laptop Vostro 1700 T7300 2 Duo CPU. At the time it was top spec, future proofed and has worked trouble free but it now needs changing.

I am again looking to try future proof as much as possible within my budget €750-€999. The Vostro is a big monster with 17in screen but I am thinking of going 15.6 but wondering will I miss the screen size???

Usage - Office, Gmail, Movies. I know the following spec is high for this usage but I tend to buy and hold for years.

So I researched & I would like I7, 128 SSD Min, 8GB RAM Min, USB 2 Min, HD Video, HDMI. Like to have SD Reader, DVD, USB C (to future proof). So these are what I have hit on.

http://www.dell.com/en-ie/shop/laptops/inspiron-15-5000/spd/inspiron-15-5567-laptop/cn55716

http://www.laptopsdirect.ie/asus-k556uq-core-i7-7500-12gb-512gb-ssd-geforce-gtx-940m-dvd-rw-15.6-inch-w-k556uq-dm1024t/version.asp

http://www.komplett.ie/hp-power-pavilion-15-cb030nd-qwerty/80047714/details.aspx

http://www.komplett.ie/lenovo-legion-y520-15ikbn-qwerty-80wk00q4mh/80047720/details.aspx

Anybody want to give their opinion on any of the above laptops. I am thinking of sticking will the Dell from my past experience but it's a long time since I was in this laptop market so any advice on problems for above options.

Thanks for any input.

TerrorFirmer

Just make note that i7 'U' processors are significantly slower than i7 HQ models -the former is a low power, dual core, the latter is a high power quad core.

Same applies to i5 - there are 'U' models and HQ models. The advantage of ULV models is that they sacrifice power (still perfectly fine for your uses) for slimmer, lighter laptops.

An i7-7700HQ is a lot faster than an i5-7300HQ - but an i7-7500U is not much faster at all than say an i5-7200U. Again though, you're really not going to see any difference in your uses between any of the processors to be honest.

The second two you'd be paying for mid-range graphics cards which would be pretty good for the latest games.

turninggreen

Thanks TerrorFirmer. Going on that basis I might check for some I5 HQ processors and save some money. Get bogged down with so many options and configurations.