i5 6200U vs AMD A10-8700P vs core m3-6y30

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I currently have three laptops in mind and would really like some suggestions as to which cpu would be a better decision down the road as I mostly use it for work/school dealing mostly with spreadsheets of data and light gaming like League of Legends. So I am looking for reliablitiy and value for performance.

I am torn between the 3 laptops below, and from what I've read the Carizzo A10 has quite good performance and has improved in single-core. I do like single-core performance to be stronger since quite a lot of apps and games prefer single core performance.

The first one is an HP Pavillion 15-AB188CA with a A10-8700P, 1TB HDD, 8gb ram, FHD 1366x768 ($549 sale)
Second is a either an Asus UX303UA with a i5-6200U, 256gb SSD, 8gb ram, IPS 1920x1080 ($1199)
Last one is Asus UX305CA with a M3-6y30, 256gb SSD, 8gb ram, IPS 1920x1080 ($899)
*Prices are in Canadian

Disclaimer:
I had a HP pavillion dv6000 laptop before with a AMD Turion & Nvidia gpu to which my experience was very subpar as it overheated twice and died within relatively short time frame of 3 years. So HP pavilion series are taken with a grain of salt unless it has improved over the years.
 
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What do you want? The intel system will boot much faster (SSD) and have superior single threaded performance.

The AMD might get better performance in games, but do you really want to go on a laptop (in a serious manner)?

You must have some sort of budget? $500-1200 is a big difference.
 
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Light gaming for both should be fine for all the processors given the resolutions of them. I don't really have a budget in mind because I can spend up to $1200, but I want to keep it low of course for decent performence and value. The regular price of the HP laptop is $699 since Bestbuy only has the sale for few more days.

The thing is I do want a strong single-core performance because it matters in a lot of applications. While intel is the only one to provide that, its a tough call between the 3 laptops since AMD trumps over the m3 while i5 trumps over everything. Its just a matter how good is the Carizzo since there are differing opinions about it beating i5-5200U and other cpu bench tests it didn't.

Though funny there is a $799 laptop from staples sporting an i5-6200U with a GT940M, 1tb HDD, 8gb ram, sounds great but heavy at 5.2 lbs. I really do wonder why there can't be a 1080p 15.6" since all i see is that crappy 1366 resolution.
 
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Well this thread has been resolved. Got myself a Dell Inspiron 7000 with a Core i7-6500U comes with a really good IPS display + touch for $1050. Even though there is no SSD and only has a 1TB HDD, the price and specs more than make up for a Asus UX303UA ultrabook with an i5 @ $1200 (with taxes its $1450 or so).

Its the best bang specs for the prices over alternative solutions.
 
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