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Which laptop to go for?

Tags: Hardware, Windows

Hey, I’m trying to get a laptop and I am low on cash. Which should I go for? A laptop with AMD Ryzen 3 Pro 2300U – 1GB dedicated Vegas 6 graphics card OR one with an AMD Ryzen 3 3250U – 2GB dedicated Vegas 3 graphics card.

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How will you be using the laptop? Hard to offer advice without knowing more. What budget? What make/model or home build? How much RAM? What type of HD or SSD and capacity? Based on what you said, it is impossible to answer your question.

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I intend to use it for design with softwares like; Figma, Photoshop, illustrator… The laptops are a HP Elitebook 745 G5 8GB, 256SSD, 1920×1080 display (AMD Ryzen 3 Pro 2300U – 1GB dedicated Vegas 6 graphics card) and HP 14-DK1009NIA, 8GB, 128SSD + 1TB HDD (AMD Ryzen 3 3250U – 2GB dedicated Vegas 3 graphics card). They are bought refurbished.

All you listed can run those apps.

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But I don’t expect high performance or even for these to be crash free as they are old and refurbs. But hey, budget, works. Also, no to which one because used is used and no one can tell if they will be without troubles.

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Thanks. One last question, do you think the HP ProBook 430 G5 Notebook (Core i5-8250U, 8GB ram, 256SSD, 6M cache), would be a better option rather the 2 mentioned above?

No. Here’s why.

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I’ve looked at i5 graphics vs the AMD graphics and the AMD has won most of the time. Since you are dealing with the titles noted I’d avoid machines with Intel integrated graphics.

I did not write the title would not run, but my bet is even poorer performance.

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In reply to No. Here’s why.

Thanks for your advice, it was helpful

Lenovo

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I think you should go with Lenovo V15 82NB003LUK Laptop

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