Student office laptop

[thebomba]

Hey guys i was searching for a cheap laptop to do basic tasks like using word, powerpoint, surfing the web and playing a game like WoW TBC. 

While im traviling from university back home at the weekends. 

I found a lenovo x240 with an i5 4200u, (3gb ddr3 ram which i'd upgrade to 8gb) and an ssd as soon as i get it the laptop for 160€ used. 

 

https://www.lapstore.de/a.php/shop/lapstore/lang/de/a/28055/kw/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X240-20AM-S3GE03-S0AD0V-2-Wahl?tag=gmlenovo&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIk6OxpIG63QIVrArTCh0lxQ2TEAQYAiABEgKP5fD_BwE

 

Do you think it'll be fast enough to handle the tasks i throw at it for the next four to five years? 

 

Or should i rather wait for a good sale and get a ryzen 5 2500u laptop for around 550€ or even a i5 7th gen with a 1050ti for around 650€ on sale? 

 

I'd like to spend as little as possible while fulfilling the above mentioned tasks without much fiddling around. 

 

[NelizMastr]

If you don't intend to do raiding in TBC then you should be okay, as that's the toughest task of all these, lol.

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The integrated Vega 8 in something like a 2500u would absolutely destroy (like a 4x factor) the iGPU in the used one you're looking at (I assume it only has an iGPU or you would have mentioned it).  The CPU is also massively more powerful - more than double in multi-threaded tasks and a good 20%+ in everything else.

[NelizMastr]

3 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

The integrated Vega 8 in something like a 2500u would absolutely destroy (like a 4x factor) the iGPU in the used one you're looking at (I assume it only has an iGPU or you would have mentioned it).  The CPU is also massively more powerful - more than double in multi-threaded tasks and a good 20%+ in everything else.

I reckon even a Ryzen 3 2200U would be more than plenty and laptops with that chip are fairly cheap.

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2 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

I reckon even a Ryzen 3 2200U would be more than plenty and laptops with that chip are fairly cheap.

I can't speak to the gaming aspect but for daily tasks, certainly.  Honestly, despite the continued improvements  we get with CPUs like this, what people need for simple stuff has really plateaued over the last 10 years or so, compared to the steep, ever upward climb of the 10 years before that, so even budget CPUs are shockingly usable.  Not like, "it's a compromise but it'll be ok", more like "this is actually plenty and you'll be happy with it".