What processor is necessary?

Chibisk

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Helloooo
so I'm looking for a laptop that won't be used for much. My friend will only be using it for microsoft word, streaming videos, music, and such as the normal college student would. We want to stick to the intel generations since it tends to last longer than AMD, but would my friend need an i3 or i5? It will be on a windows 8 operating system so i heard you need an i5 if you want it to last long with a solid performance since i3 will eventually get slow; I don't know if this is true or not! Can you guys please specify?? Thanks!!
 
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no processor "gets slow" its other parts of the computer that wear. if a processor wears it will go from working to not working. When you have a slow computer, its almost always your hard drive. He doesnt need an i5, big waste of money for those tasks. i3 will be best option, pus an i3 uses less power and will let the battery last longer. just get a good brand with a sturdy build, no HP's, i recommend lenovo, asus, and msi. Asus and MSI might only offer higher end options. do you want suggestions?

TheFluffyDog

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no processor "gets slow" its other parts of the computer that wear. if a processor wears it will go from working to not working. When you have a slow computer, its almost always your hard drive. He doesnt need an i5, big waste of money for those tasks. i3 will be best option, pus an i3 uses less power and will let the battery last longer. just get a good brand with a sturdy build, no HP's, i recommend lenovo, asus, and msi. Asus and MSI might only offer higher end options. do you want suggestions?
 
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Rasmus jr

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As your needs says, i suggest that its depends on your budget. The i5's will surely be more powerful than the i3's.And according to your work needs specified i3 will be fair enough but i will say along with it keep a graphical solution like 1gb or more if you would be dealing with games or modelling or animation and i know that an average students will be playing some games.And i would like to say hear only from those person or source who has sure knowledge about the thing.Most of the people i see using laptops just wont have much idea and they will bottleneck,and suffocate their system with errors,low maintainance, mishandling and that would inturn reduce the system life and performance and will always land up in repair stores and keep on complaining.An next would come the service store problems(conditional :)) .
 
For a laptop, you want to get the best one you can possibly afford as they are not upgradable past RAM and hard drive. I would go with an i5, mostly for the faster video performance for any games. Better to have the option to have the speed to play a light game than to want to and find out your video speed is not good enough. An i5 can handle games like World of Warcraft at fairly good settings on the onboard video, i3 you may have issues with anything last Low.
 

Chibisk

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no games will be played on this laptop. but there will be a lot of multi-tasking with many tabs open along with other applications. $600 would be the absolute budget but around or under $500 would be nice. Of course, its a huge investment so spend some more wouldn't hurt.

I saw this on sale at tigerdirect. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/ite...
it doesn't sound bad but yeah some suggestions would be nice. soo i guess i just need to get a reliable hard drive in the end? then why were we told to get i5 processors? guess they just tried to make more money off of us
 
Tigerdirect has older or refurbished system for sale often. They may have some good deals but you need to dig though quite a bit to find them not to end up with an old product, which is why the cost is often less than you see in other places.

For 5-600, check the Lenovo G series http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/g-series/