I have to buy a new notebook soon, and I came across the Lenovo Ideapad 5 15ARE, which I really like. However, I'm not sure whether I'm using an AMD Ryzen 5 4500U processor and 8 GB of RAM or an AMD Ryzen 7 4700U processor and 16 GB of RAM. I would like to use the notebook mainly for the next 7 years for school and university, with office work and now and then with Adobe programs such as Photoshop, Premiere Pro or After Effects. Secondly, I occasionally don't want to play very complex games, but performance isn't that important to me.
Would you say 8 GB of RAM and, in comparison, a somewhat poorer processor are enough for school and simple image and video editing? Or should I accept the 200 euro surcharge?
In fact, 8 GB of RAM is not enough. You should have at least 16 GB available.
You should definitely have 16GB in there, preferably in such a way that you can upgrade again
Do you want security for the next seven years?!
Oh dear, then you should definitely rely on the R7, a notebook with an R9 would be better
If you want to use the notebook for many years, 16GB instead of 8GB make sense. The "small" one already has 6 cores, which is quite sufficient for a lot, the large one has 8 cores. The small one with 16GB instead of 8 would, in my opinion, survive the years quite well, if a memory upgrade of the small version is not possible or only at a price similar to the surcharge, you should bite the acres and invest the 200 euro…
Well, I think 7 years is okay now. I don't always have to have the best notebook and take good care of my things. I bought my current notebook in 2015 and back then it was already rather mid-range and I got by with it for 6 years.
You have to know, yes
I would still use 16GB and the R7
And make sure that I can at least upgrade the RAM and the SSD
And then preferably a notebook with a dedicated GPU
