-7th Generation Intel® Core™ i3-7100U Processor (3MB Cache, up to 2.4 GHz)
-4GB LPDDR3 1866MHz
vs
-7th Generation Intel® Core™ i5-7200U Processor (3MB Cache, up to 3.1 GHz)
-8GB LPDDR3 1866MHz
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1.) Is the i5 and 8GB DDR3 significantly faster than the i3 and 4GB DDR3?
In my case I'm not really sure if the i5 & 8GB RAM is worth the price difference. I'll be buying one of these Ultrabooks for my mother and she does the most basic of things on her computers that even a $500 machine should be able to handle: Chrome browsing, Watching YouTube videos, sending e-mails and opening PDFs.
2.) Is the i3 & 4GB RAM capable of blazing through those tasks absent signs of slowdown / sluggish behavior with 10 or so Chrome browsers open and a video playing in the background? If I was buying one of these for myself I'd never go anywhere near an i3 & 4GB RAM but my usage scenarios are a lot more demanding than hers.
-4GB LPDDR3 1866MHz
vs
-7th Generation Intel® Core™ i5-7200U Processor (3MB Cache, up to 3.1 GHz)
-8GB LPDDR3 1866MHz
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1.) Is the i5 and 8GB DDR3 significantly faster than the i3 and 4GB DDR3?
In my case I'm not really sure if the i5 & 8GB RAM is worth the price difference. I'll be buying one of these Ultrabooks for my mother and she does the most basic of things on her computers that even a $500 machine should be able to handle: Chrome browsing, Watching YouTube videos, sending e-mails and opening PDFs.
2.) Is the i3 & 4GB RAM capable of blazing through those tasks absent signs of slowdown / sluggish behavior with 10 or so Chrome browsers open and a video playing in the background? If I was buying one of these for myself I'd never go anywhere near an i3 & 4GB RAM but my usage scenarios are a lot more demanding than hers.