Hello,
Need a bit of advice. Looking to upgrade the laptop. Is there anything wrong with buying a 2 year old model laptop? I want to future proof, so looking at a 15 inch with 8gb RAM and preferably only an SSD. Don't care so much for design. Uses will be web browsing, movies/Netflix, banking and occasional power point editing. I have a couple of choices for my budget. Both are pretty much the same price.
The first is a DELL G3 15 3579. This seems to be a mid 2018 year model. Originally it had an Intel i5 chip but this one has
Intel i7-8750H 8th gen chip
8gb RAM
256 M.2 SATA SSD
Windows 10 Pro
NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1050Ti4gb graphic.
Not currently sold in the Dell store but this seems to be a decent laptop.
The second option is an HP Pavilion (won't give the model number because it is sold here in Korea and the specs are in written in Korean.
It has an Intel i5-826SU 8th gen chip
256gb NVME M.2 SSD
8gb RAM
NVIDIA GEFORCE MX 250 GDDR5 2gb GRAPHIC
Windows Home
Released in the last couple of month.
There is a third HP to choose, that has an i7 chip and similar specs to the above HP but it is a 2018 model.
Going by research, limited knowledge and specs it seems like the DELL is the best option, should be powerful and last a few years (future proof) but because it is older I am not sure. Should I buy the latest technology of the HP even though it has slightly less specs.
Sorry for the long question. Not sure of computers so I would appreciate any advice.
Thank you.
Need a bit of advice. Looking to upgrade the laptop. Is there anything wrong with buying a 2 year old model laptop? I want to future proof, so looking at a 15 inch with 8gb RAM and preferably only an SSD. Don't care so much for design. Uses will be web browsing, movies/Netflix, banking and occasional power point editing. I have a couple of choices for my budget. Both are pretty much the same price.
The first is a DELL G3 15 3579. This seems to be a mid 2018 year model. Originally it had an Intel i5 chip but this one has
Intel i7-8750H 8th gen chip
8gb RAM
256 M.2 SATA SSD
Windows 10 Pro
NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1050Ti4gb graphic.
Not currently sold in the Dell store but this seems to be a decent laptop.
The second option is an HP Pavilion (won't give the model number because it is sold here in Korea and the specs are in written in Korean.
It has an Intel i5-826SU 8th gen chip
256gb NVME M.2 SSD
8gb RAM
NVIDIA GEFORCE MX 250 GDDR5 2gb GRAPHIC
Windows Home
Released in the last couple of month.
There is a third HP to choose, that has an i7 chip and similar specs to the above HP but it is a 2018 model.
Going by research, limited knowledge and specs it seems like the DELL is the best option, should be powerful and last a few years (future proof) but because it is older I am not sure. Should I buy the latest technology of the HP even though it has slightly less specs.
Sorry for the long question. Not sure of computers so I would appreciate any advice.
Thank you.