Which laptop?

[another random person]

Hello community

 

I have been scrolling through online stores and came across these laptops

 

https://www.jbhifi.com.au/computers-tablets/laptops/dell/dell-y511232au-11-3000-2-in-1-laptop/314272/  (Pentium Dell)

https://www.jbhifi.com.au/computers-tablets/laptops/dell/dell-inspiron-z510835au-11-3000-2-in-1-laptop/954158/  (Core M Dell)

http://www.harveynorman.com.au/computers-tablets/computers/laptops/hp-x360-11-ab022tu-11-6-2-in-1-laptop.html  (Pentium HP)

 

The two Dell laptops shown are essentially identical apart from their CPU. I am having a hard time determining which would be the better of the two for my use case.

I plan to use the laptops for school and since I am working through one of my final school years I have lots of textbooks to load digitally as well as lots of side school projects. I will also be doing very light photo editing on the laptop as well as Adobe After effects work. I am also unsure if the ram is upgradeable to 8GB on all of the laptops.

 

Thanks in advance

[Phentos]

I would personally take the Core M Dell.

[KeFy]

i have acually used the pentium dell one had no issues with it

[another random person]

1 minute ago, Phentos said:

I would personally take the Core M Dell.

I was considering that too but I'm not sure if Lightroom and After effects would like the Dual core much.

[another random person]

1 minute ago, KeFy said:

i have acually used the pentium dell one had no issues with it

Would you say it would perform decent enough for Lightroom and After effects to run?

[KeFy]

1 minute ago, another random person said:

Would you say it would perform decent enough for Lightroom and After effects to run?

no idea i did use it with photoshop tho with no issues so i think it can handle it

[Phentos]

5 minutes ago, another random person said:

Would you say it would perform decent enough for Lightroom and After effects to run?

Lightroom will work fine on it. I have the dual core i5 Surface Pro 4 and have had no issues with it and Photoshop. The i5 6300U and Core M 7Y30 are pretty close in performance.

 

After Effects might have a slowdown if there's a heavy workload with lots of rendered effects going, but for the most part it should work fine.

 

For "very light photo editing" you should not have much issue with 4 GB of RAM. After Effects might be a different story, but I'm not good enough with that program to actually be able to stress a PC with it

[another random person]

5 minutes ago, KeFy said:

no idea i did use it with photoshop tho with no issues so i think it can handle it

Okay, Thank you.

 

2 minutes ago, Phentos said:

Lightroom will work fine on it. I have the dual core i5 Surface Pro 4 and have had no issues with it and Photoshop. The i5 6300U and Core M 7Y30 are pretty close in performance.

 

After Effects might have a slowdown if there's a heavy workload with lots of rendered effects going, but for the most part it should work fine.

Oh, never knew that M could compare to i5. Yeah knowing me I would probably do the lighter rendered effects on the laptop and save the heavy workloads for my desktop.

 

Thank you