NEED HELP which envy to get

I purchased a hp envy 14 1111nr which as I understand this is a older model. This is the one with the core i5 460 with 640mb and spins at 7200 rpm 4 gigs.

The newer one 14- 1210nr comes with a core i5-480 and 750mb 4 gigs but spins at 5400rpms has the same graphics cards both ati 5650 with 1 gig.

My questions is this, I do a lot of movie watching, game playing, as well as surfing the web. I also use this as a school computer, writing tons of papers and other various things. Is it better to have the higher spinning hard drive the 7200 over the 5400? Is the newer processor that Much of a difference that I would want the i5-480? The 640 is way more then I need so that is not a factor here. It comes down to this newer processor vs. the higher spinning drive, what should I do? Should I just return this one for the newer one or should I just keep this one? I love this envy its super fast and looks awesome just confussed as to which one will be better suited for my needs. Can you help me out please?

 

The disk speeds will probably make more of a difference than the processors between those, so I would keep the one you have. The real turning point would be if either one of them had the touted Radiance screen, but if that's not an issue (they both have the same screen) then it's not really a question. The most important thing is that you've already got one in your hands - I assume it would be at least somewhat inconvenient, if not somewhat costly, to swap one for the other, so you should just stick with what you've got unless it's giving you trouble in some way.

 

Don't cross post on these forums please - it is not allowed per our forum rules. Your other thread has been deleted. Thanks.

 

The 7200 is quite a bit faster than the 5400 and there isn't a huge difference in the i5 460 vs 480. If you do decide you want something faster look into an ssd drive which is amazingly fast since there aren't any moving parts.

Check this link out if you are interested.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/notebooks-desktops-sale/559073-fs-envy-14-w-ssd-8g-ram-i5.html

 

Thanks for the information, from what I have seen this one I have is the better buy and yes it does have the radiance screen. Like I said its pretty much identical to the newer one the envy 14-1210nr. The only difference is the processor and the hard drive. Since the biggest difference is the hard drive I will stick with the 7200 over the 5400. @spencerp or whom ever could answer this what is a ssd drive that you have mentioned.


Envy 14 i5-460 4g ram/ 640gb/ 7200rpm/ radiance screen/ddr3/beats audio/ blah blah blah

 

An SSD (solid state disk) serves the same purpose as a hard disk, but it uses flash or RAM memory instead of platters for storing data. This makes it work much faster than any conventional hard drive, since, as spencerp pointed out, there are no moving parts to wait for. SSD's are typically smaller than HDD's, both in physical size and in storage space, use less energy, and are significantly more expensive, to the tune of approximately $1/0.5 GB as opposed to $1/5-20 GB for HDD's - or a ten- to forty-fold price increase per gigabyte.

They're often used as boot drives and drives on which people will put their most important programs that they want to run as fast as possible. You wouldn't typically buy an SSD to store 1080p movies or anything.