Which is better?

Origin Saint

Origin Saint

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I'm researching for the laptop I want for my birthday coming up and I need a little assistance with picking out the right parts. So which of these are better:
1) AMD Quad-Core A8-3550MX Accelerated Processor (2.7GHz/2.0GHz, 4MB L2 Cache)...coupled with 6GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)

OR

2) 2nd generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2450M Processor (2.5 GHz with Turbo Boost up to 3.1 GHz)...coupled with 8GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)

Personally, I think the second configuration is the worse of the two, but I'm going to go ahead and ask you guys for confirmation or denial. Thanks for your help and input.
 
Though I love AMD, Intel performs much better with their mobile processors than AMD does. The Intel machine should fly. It's also almost 1,000 points higher on the benchmark than that AMD.
 
I've gotten slightly mixed reviews from some people. All I do on my laptop is generally light gaming, like runescape or WoW in decently low quality graphics, surf the web, play my massive iTunes library and render videos in HD on Windows Movie Maker Live. The laptop I've been looking at is a HP-DV6ZQE. The internals in it would be as follows:

> AMD Quad-Core A8-3550MX Accelerated Processor (2.7GHz/2.0GHz, 4MB L2 Cache)
> 1GB AMD Radeon HD 7690M GDDR5 Discrete Graphics [HDMI, VGA]
> 6GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
> 750GB 7200 rpm Hard Drive

Would that be decent to suit my needs do you think?
 
Intel will be way faster for everyday things and all that. But, if you want to game on it then the AMD one will be a good bit better.

Your post showed up after i posted, that's way better for gaming and will do fine for the other stuff, although HP isn't a great brand, Dell is good and normally ASUS too but they seem to get a lot of bad reviews lately, just depends on the model really. What budget are you looking at?
 
I need it to be a laptop obviously and I do not want a notebook, and I refuse to go any higher than $800 lol. I'm a picky cheapskate I know.
 
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The Intel is actually like $825, I was mostly asking just to see what would be better. And I customized both of them on HP's website. I know HP isn't the best brand, but all the Dells with the same or better specs are much more expensive and from what I knew ASUS was strictly notebooks. But yeah, made both of them on HP's site. The one I mentioned above that I wanted with the AMD is about $755 from HP if you buy online. They give discounts for online payments I guess.
 
Dell is good quality, and you gotta pay for it.

You could also look into Samsung and Lenovo.
 
HP is a crap brand, avoid them. Nothing but problems in the past, and their customer service is abysmal at best. Lenovo, Samsung, Asus, and MSI are all good choices and a safer longterm bet. Regarding the components- it's kind of close but i'd definitely opt for the i5 in this case. Check the ddr3 rating as well as the capacity of ram, it does matter in the end. 750gb should be enough for most anything, but i'd probably swap it out for a smaller ssd and try to use that drive for external storage.
 
Not to be rude, but I realize HP's have their problems, but so does Dell. Older Dell laptops have more problems than a Calculus class usually. I've owned a older Dell laptop, a Gateway desktop, a HP desktop and a HP laptop. The Dell and the Gateway both sucked and so far, the HP's have worked perfectly. Sure, they're behind Dell, but I need a affordable laptop with decent specs and I'm not willing to drop $850 for one. ASUS and MSI only offer notebooks and as I previously stated, I will not buy a notebook. I can personally attest to HP's durability and decent computer builds. Maybe I've just gotten lucky but oh well. And I've never dealt with HP customer service because I tend to fix most computer problems myself or with help from friends. So I disagree with HP being complete crap. But thank you for your input on the internals. I think I'll stick with my choice and I might get a SSD when they aren't insanely expensive. The only advantage I've seen in them is that they make no noise. Anyway, thanks for your responses, you've all been very helpful.
 
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