I'm "upgrading" from a laptop with 4 gb of ram and a Westmere (Nehalem) i5 460m - dual core with hyperthreading. I'll be buying a new laptop this holiday season, but I'm not really sure what to look for anymore (so many different cpus, i5, core m, etc). Skylake was released very shortly after Broadwell, so it just makes the choice so much harder.
I use the laptop primarily for schoolwork, with internet browsing and video watching as close secondary uses. I do very light gaming from time to time (league of legends). Overall light usage, i'd say, so my priorities are centered around value (performance/dollar) and battery life, and basically whatever ISN'T performance (hoping you guys could enlighten me on more pros and cons)
My choices are typically between the i5 5200u and the i5 6200u, as they are the most commonly found. However, I am very open to other suggestions if they are better choices. My idea was originally just to jump on a Skylake laptop, solely because it's newer but I'm doubting that logic now for whatever reason. Anyway, what do you guys think?
EDIT: also, while I did mention performance as not being important, it'd be nice to have. But of course, this would be secondary to power consumption/value. I do notice slowdowns from time to time with the i5 460m laptop, so I'm wondering if this aspect would improve with an upgrade?
And it seems that most laptop cpus are 2 cores/4 threads. Would there be any good reason for a user like me (movies, very light gaming, schoolwork) to get a quad core laptop? If NOT, then what's the incentive to go for an i5 over an i3 (they're both 2c/4t cpus)??
WOW that's a lot of questions haha
I use the laptop primarily for schoolwork, with internet browsing and video watching as close secondary uses. I do very light gaming from time to time (league of legends). Overall light usage, i'd say, so my priorities are centered around value (performance/dollar) and battery life, and basically whatever ISN'T performance (hoping you guys could enlighten me on more pros and cons)
My choices are typically between the i5 5200u and the i5 6200u, as they are the most commonly found. However, I am very open to other suggestions if they are better choices. My idea was originally just to jump on a Skylake laptop, solely because it's newer but I'm doubting that logic now for whatever reason. Anyway, what do you guys think?
EDIT: also, while I did mention performance as not being important, it'd be nice to have. But of course, this would be secondary to power consumption/value. I do notice slowdowns from time to time with the i5 460m laptop, so I'm wondering if this aspect would improve with an upgrade?
And it seems that most laptop cpus are 2 cores/4 threads. Would there be any good reason for a user like me (movies, very light gaming, schoolwork) to get a quad core laptop? If NOT, then what's the incentive to go for an i5 over an i3 (they're both 2c/4t cpus)??
WOW that's a lot of questions haha
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