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Hey everyone

I am a student and i am planning to buy a new laptop for my personal use. As i am having not too much choices due tu a limited budget because i want to buy it from my pocket money. Choices that i am having are HP Pavilion 15-P207TX and HP Pavilion 15-P208TX Suggesting any other would be a great help. Coming to my basic problem as both the above models use Intel Core i7 5th gen processors (5500Upost-248049-0-45944400-1438096295_thumb. to be specific) as i am aware that these run only on 2 cores and a clock speed of 2.4Ghz. So weather should i buy it or any other options plzzz it would be greatly helpfull.

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Its very much confusing

and also aquward to hear a core i7 processor i.e. "dual core"

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Lots of mobile i7's are dual cores. The jump to i7 just means they add hyper-threading. If you want a quad core in your laptop you'll have to make the jump to a 5700 or 4700 series. Although that 5500 that you are looking at isn't bad at all.

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Depends on what type of gaming you are trying to do. Looking at the laptop it only looks like it comes with a GTX 840m, which for light gaming should be fine. I doubt it will play demanding games well though. Although I have no experience with that card.

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Depends on what type of gaming you are trying to do. Looking at the laptop it only looks like it comes with a GTX 840m, which for light gaming should be fine. I doubt it will play demanding games well though. Although I have no experience with that card.

This card is actually is capible of runing gta 5 and farcry 4 in high res

the only concern is the processor

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This card is actually is capible of runing gta 5 and farcry 4 in high res

the only concern is the processor

You might want to re-check that.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-840M.105681.0.html

 

The CPU will be fine with that combo.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-5500U+%40+2.40GHz

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My suggestion is not to buy a laptop just because it comes with the shiny "core i7".

 

The top priority and the thing that will make your experience much smoother is getting a laptop with an SSD. The difference is literally between day and night. The reasoning behind this is that new cpu's are extremly efficient especially if your only using your machine for surfing the web and light document creation.

 

Have a great day ;)

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My suggestion is not to buy a laptop just because it comes with the shiny "core i7".

 

The top priority and the thing that will make your experience much smoother is getting a laptop with an SSD. The difference is literally between day and night. The reasoning behind this is that new cpu's are extremly efficient especially if your only using your machine for surfing the web and light document creation.

 

Have a great day ;)

 

An SSD can be added in the future, a soldered CPU, not.

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An SSD can be added in the future, a soldered CPU, not.

True but I'm not sure whether OP would want to upgrade a laptop. The choice is up to him in the end :)

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My suggestion is not to buy a laptop just because it comes with the shiny "core i7".

 

The top priority and the thing that will make your experience much smoother is getting a laptop with an SSD. The difference is literally between day and night. The reasoning behind this is that new cpu's are extremly efficient especially if your only using your machine for surfing the web and light document creation.

 

Have a great day ;)

i actully want a laptop coz i will take it to college nd i also own a pc though

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