ryzen 4th gen Ryzen 4500U or i5-1035G1

[Mathew_TG]

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Hi,
I'm looking for a daily use lightweight medium performance laptop with the following min specs: -

Quadcore - ~4GHz (Boost)
16GB (or 8 + empty slot)
512GB PCIe ( extra slot would be nice NVMe or SATA)
No preference on graphics

 

My priorities are lightweight (below 1.5kg or 3.3lbs) followed by durability or overall quality(not just build quality), and I shortlisted the following laptops: -

1. Acer Swift 3 or Lenovo Ideapad 5 (running Ryzen 5 4500U)
2. Dell Vostro (running i5-1035G1)

TL;DR
In the long run would it be better to go with a Ryzen 5 4500U laptop (with average quality) or an i5-1035G1 laptop (with relatively good quality) ?
In real life performance, will there be a noticeable difference between the Ryzen and Intel CPU's ?

[genexis_x]

9 hours ago, Mathew_TG said:

durability

Consider business laptops.

9 hours ago, Mathew_TG said:

In the long run would it be better to go with a Ryzen 5 4500U laptop (with average quality) or an i5-1035G1 laptop (with relatively good quality) ?

1035G1 will never match 4500U under same power budget (especially multi core)

9 hours ago, Mathew_TG said:

In real life performance, will there be a noticeable difference between the Ryzen and Intel CPU's ?

Depends on what you do with it

[Mathew_TG]

2 hours ago, genexis_x said:

Consider business laptops

Any suggestions at ~$800
I'm looking at a Vostro 5401 right now (i5-1035G1).

2 hours ago, genexis_x said:

1035G1 will never match 4500U under same power budget (especially multi core)

Understood, I have seen the benchmarks and reviews where the Ryzen absolutely kills. But on a day to day basis will it be obvious ?

2 hours ago, genexis_x said:

Depends on what you do with it

Well, I do not intend to game on it.
On any day I would have upwards of 4 tabs open on a browser and at least 2 other applications.
Occasionally, I need to run a spice simulation (that's why the ~4GHz) or spin up a VM for certain compiles(that's why the 16GB).

[genexis_x]

3 hours ago, Mathew_TG said:

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Are you buying in US?

 

Vostro is not 'true' business laptop, it's a consumer rebrand business laptop

 

Normal usage you probably won't be notice the multi core performance difference, however why would you get a slower CPU for higher price

 

4GHz is hard to be achieved in non gaming laptops TBH

[Mathew_TG]

5 minutes ago, genexis_x said:

Are you buying in US

No, India.
That's part of the reason for the relatively poor selection under $800

7 minutes ago, genexis_x said:

why would you get a slower CPU for higher price

*sighs. Only trying to choose from whats available, it sucks I know.
Coming from a 1.6GHz i5-4200U, almost anything is going to be an upgrade for me.
But as you rightly said - why would I want to get a slower CPU ? Put simply, I want the laptop to last a good 4/5 years.

I'm not looking to get a super spec-ed machine that may die on me as soon as the warranty is over.

8 minutes ago, genexis_x said:

4GHz is hard to be achieved in non gaming laptops

4GHz is like a target of sorts - helps to weed out weak models.
For instance, the i5 I mentioned only goes up to 3.6GHz.

[Mathew_TG]

This is what I'm looking at currently

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