I've been looking for a laptop for a long time. A few were good, but then there were small quirks that destroyed it and I decided not to buy it. Now I've found one. It's from Lenovo and you can configure it on Amazon. I took the one with 15.6 inch FullHD, an AMD Ryzen 5 3500U CPU, 3.7 GHz, 8Gb DDR RAM, a Radeon Vega 8 graphics card, 256 GB SSD and 1000 GN HDD. It costs 520 euro, which I decided to buy, but then I saw that another, cheaper configuration was Amazon's bestseller. It has: 14.0 inch Full HD, AMD 3020e, 2x2.6 GHz, 8GB DDR4 memory, a Radeon RX graphics card / chip and 256GB SSD. All of this for just 400 euro. Now I ask myself the question: should I get the one above or the one below? Since my budget for one of them is barely enough, I think it would be better to buy it for 400 euro and I don't know much about the values I mentioned above. Which would you advise me to do?
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I would take the better equipment, investing even more.
Would definitely give you the 1st guess. It's better to invest 100 euro more, but then be on the safe side when it comes to the future. They don't just want to do Word Open Office and stuff like that with their laptop, right?
Definitely the one with the Ryzen
You won't be happy with the 3020e for long
No, I think I'll play a few small games or watch Netflix.
Yes, then the first choice would be better for something like that.
By the way, not a thing.
What do you want to do with the notebook?
In general, the Ryzen 3000 notebook CPUs are not so useful in most cases. More like Intel Core i from the 8th Gen or Ryzen 4000.
EDIT: The 3020e is again significantly worse, I would rather not buy it.
I would play a few smaller games that don't use that much power, do homework, and watch Netlflix or YouTube or something.
If you really want to play games with it:
https://geizhals.de/...loc=eu&v=e
(EVERYONE should currently run reasonably well)
For office etc. And only undemanding games are enough Something easy:
It depends on what you do with it. The upper one is quite well equipped, but the lower one is sufficient for everyday things (except playing).
So I would buy a laptop that I can keep for at least a couple of years that runs smoothly while: streaming Netflix or YouTube, doing homework or playing some less demanding games.
Then the upper one. Simple games run quite well on it and the processor will keep up for a few years.