I am looking to buy a new laptop fairly soon that I will be using through my last year of high school and throughout college. It needs to be fairly portable for college purposes, but I'd also like to be able to use it for occasional gaming and such.
I don't know a ton about computer hardware, so my questions are:
1) Which would you suggest.. the Intel® Core™ i3-350M processor (2.26GHz) or the Intel® Core™ i5-520M processor (2.40GHz)?
2) Is 4gb ram enough to support the windows 7 64bit operating system as well as multiple applications or should I go for a bit more?
3) Is it cheaper to buy a laptop with a lot of ram or buy one with lower ram and put more in myself?
4) Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator HD or ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5470 GPU (512MB VRAM)?
Thanks in advance to anyone that answers. Help is greatly appreciated.
I don't know a ton about computer hardware, so my questions are:
1) Which would you suggest.. the Intel® Core™ i3-350M processor (2.26GHz) or the Intel® Core™ i5-520M processor (2.40GHz)?
2) Is 4gb ram enough to support the windows 7 64bit operating system as well as multiple applications or should I go for a bit more?
3) Is it cheaper to buy a laptop with a lot of ram or buy one with lower ram and put more in myself?
4) Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator HD or ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5470 GPU (512MB VRAM)?
Thanks in advance to anyone that answers. Help is greatly appreciated.