Help me Laptop buying help SSD vs hdd with optane

[Dragonriser]

Hi community,

I am thinking of purchasing a new laptop and have shortlisted two 

https://www.amazon.in/dp/B07R91DYBH/ref=cm_sw_r_wa_apa_i_WiEhDbD5PHFF8

and

https://www.amazon.in/dp/B07KY8K9ZC/ref=cm_sw_r_wa_apa_i_U4zhDb0XW00X8

.please help me. my main focus is ram 16 gb for AI learning however at my 870 dollar budget is impossible. The Intel optane here is confusing me.

[Fasauceome]

8 minutes ago, Dragonriser said:

The Intel optane here is confusing me.

Optane is used mainly as a storage accelerator, acting like a huge cache for a mechanical hard drive. It actually can be used as memory for the CPU, albeit much slower, and there was an LTT video about it, but I don't know if it can be done on that laptop.

[SupaKomputa]

Why don't you just add the ram later.

Just make sure it has a memory slot.

[Dragonriser]

1 hour ago, SupaKomputa said:

Why don't you just add the ram later.

Just make sure it has a memory slot.

Yes I am looking forward to doing it as an upgrade 

[Dragonriser]

1 hour ago, fasauceome said:

Optane is used mainly as a storage accelerator, acting like a huge cache for a mechanical hard drive. It actually can be used as memory for the CPU, albeit much slower, and there was an LTT video about it, but I don't know if it can be done on that laptop.

I did watch it however the problem is the laptop here have similar price one with 128 gbssd and 1 tb hddand 8 gb ram other with 8+ 16 gb optane 1 tb hdd. It is really confusing on the part of optane here as it is a ram substitute. 

[SupaKomputa]

Go with the SSD, optane will not be as good as a dedicated SSD.

remember optane is a HDD booster and the size is only 16gb, that's the size of your most frequently used files.

uncached files will be as slow as the hdd.

btw 128gb ssd is kinda low, get 256gb minimum.