4K or better specs?

[IAmAndre]

Hi there,

 

I'm trying to choose a laptop for my brother and I'm not sure which one of these I should get. He's going to use it for music creation and casual gaming. I have the choice between two Dell laptops :

- Inspiron 15 Series 7000 (€1100) : 16 GB of RAM, Core i7-5500U, 4K display, Radeon R7 M270 with 4GB of DDR3 memory

- Inspiron 15 Series 7000 New gen (€1000) : 8 GB of RAM, Core i7-6700U, 1080p display, GTX 960M with 4GB of DDR5 memory

 

So the new gen is a bit less expensive and has a better GPU and CPU, and enough RAM for his usage, but I want to know if having a 4K display is worth sacrificing the higher specs. Is it a huge deal on a 15 inch screen?

 

Thanks

[Pankaic]

Between those two, definitely get the second. But are these your only options? They aren't that great for the price, and U-skew processors aren't spectacular either

[Oshino Shinobu]

4K on a 28" screen is pretty hard to read text on, it would be stupid on a 15" screen. You'd have to use scaling, which bugs out a lot. 

 

I'd definitely go for higher specs than 4K. Anything over 1440p on laptops in pointless IMO. 

[don_svetlio]

you want a quadcore, not a dual-core low voltage i7 - go for a 6700HQ or 4720HQ and definitely the 960m

[Mcmole]

Get the better specs, That 4K laptop would struggle playing games on high.

[IAmAndre]

Alright thank you all for your replies. I'll try to find something even better with a full HD display.