Which laptop to choose?

neviditelny · 18 Jun 2020 at 18:05

I'm looking to get a laptop from back home in Sweden as I would need something for my studies that got a swedish keyboard and makes me able to leave to home as I otherwise tend to get too distracted at home. The laptop would also work as a backup if my standard desktop goes down.

I'm looking at an Asus Gaming FX505 or an Acer Aspire 3 laptop and just need some help in regards of the specs from them.

The Asus laptop got a AMD Ryzen 5 3550H processor, Geforce GTX1650 GPU, 512gb m2 nvme harddrive and a 1tb storage hdd.

The Acer laptop got an AMD Ryzen 5 3500U processor, a Radeon Vega 8 GPU and a 512gb SSD.

Both laptops have 2x8gb memory and the same screen resolution.

Anyone who could help with some advice?

chipps101 · 18 Jun 2020 at 22:34

If you're going to play games then the 3550h and 1650 is much better for gaming, the 3500u isnt that much slower as a cpu but the vega 8 is nowhere near a 1650 in gfx performance.

Is there a big price difference between them ?

neviditelny · 19 Jun 2020 at 07:22

It's not going to be used as a gaming laptop (got a decent desktop for that). It's about £300-350 difference in the price between them. Don't like gaming on laptops either as the screen is so small.

chipps101 · 19 Jun 2020 at 11:46

If you are not going to game on it then I would go for the 3500u with vega 8, especially if it is that much cheaper.

The 3550h and 3500u are basically the same cpu but the 3550h has a 35w tdp so can boost and hold its clocks longer.

The vega 8 is great for normal tasks and can even do a bit of light gaming if needed.

neviditelny · 19 Jun 2020 at 22:52

chipps101 said:
If you are not going to game on it then I would go for the 3500u with vega 8, especially if it is that much cheaper.

The 3550h and 3500u are basically the same cpu but the 3550h has a 35w tdp so can boost and hold its clocks longer.

The vega 8 is great for normal tasks and can even do a bit of light gaming if needed.

I've pretty much decided to go with the Acer. Mainly because the price. I've been thinking about getting an external harddrive from here as a storage drive.

I was wondering what the difference between the H and U processors were, but did assume the difference would be quite small. The main things that I would run on the laptop would be Microsoft Words and Spotify and various videos from my uni.

chipps101 · 19 Jun 2020 at 23:30

I have a lenovo v155 with the 3500u and it is quite a nippy machine, I think it would be a great choice for those requirements.

neviditelny · 24 Jun 2020 at 18:25

I ended up ordering the Acer laptop in the weekend and it has already arrived at my parents so its ready for use when I go home in end of next month.

chipps101 · 24 Jun 2020 at 18:46

Excellent, I think you will be happy with the performance of the 3500u and vega 8

Lokken86 · 25 Jun 2020 at 21:19

I used my 3500u for studying digital media and it was excellent. Small and light with nice battery life. Got through a whole day at uni without charging. I'd quite often be using 3ds max for for extended times. It wasn't half bad at rendering high fidelity scenes either.