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jackteet

jackteet

jackteet

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Hi, I am new to this forum today and have little IT skills so please forgive any stupid questions.
I have an Acer Travel mate purchased 13 years ago which works fine bit like me, is slowing down. A new laptop is called for.
I am looking for i5, i7, or AMD Ryzen 7, dependant upon price. At present I have three, two Asus and an Acer Aspire 3. The Acer has AMD Ryzen 7 5700U and the Asus have one with i5 1335U and the other with i5 1334U. I have duckduckgo the differences between the three but simply I do not understand the technical jargon.Both laptops have 16gb Ram, and one with 1T SSD and the other 512 SSD
I please need an idiots explanation. My use is very home basic, emails, downloading films and tv series, and a great deal of surfing for watches. I keep a great many films which I transfer to 1T USB`s.
My question please is given what I use a laptop for, will it make any difference to general performance which of the three I have.
TIA. jack
 
So its a little difficult to rate CPU's these days as a lot of it comes down to the aplications you use and there are a thousand garbage websites out there built for clicks rather than info.

Some aplications can only use one core or thread in which case for a given generation the fastest clock speed should be the best. if an app is written to break what it does into blocks that more than one core can work on then more cores may be better but all three have plenty of cores.

All three of those have plenty of cores for your needs and given your current workhorse i think any of them would be suitable and i doubt you would notice.

For me price would be the decider, the 1335U is marginally better gaming performance but not something you would notice in your stated use case.

If you can see them in person i'd pick sound and screen quality.

Hard drive/SSD size i wouldnt worry too much about, but 1T and 512gb is basically twice the storage on the 1T one, open my computer on your current and see your usage i'd expect your drive is less than 512Gb on your current.
 
Hi Gav_881, thank you so much for your time and trouble to fully answer my questions, much appreciated. jack.
 
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