Which version of the Y2P? i5 or i7

Hi guys,

I'm thinking about buying a Y2P. I want an Orange one

My local store has many Orange ones, can get it tomorrow if I wanted.

It is the i5/4gb/256 version.

Online I can only get either the same version or the i7/8gb/512 which is a LOT more -£999.99 --> £1299.99

I want this mainly for doing work on in MS office and browsing the web, email etc. I don't go anything like graphic design or high level gaming etc but I might want to watch movies, play windows store games and maybe a few steam games etc

Would the i5 with 4gb cover that easily or would it struggle with that? I don't want to risk getting one then finding it slow or anything later and the money this costs I want it to do well for a fair few years.

I am struggling to find benchmarking tests that I can do a comparison against.

Has anyone had any problems with the i5 4gb version being slow or is there not a lot of difference?

 

I have an 8G version, however I use photoshop/lightroom on it and and they are very memory intensive. That being said, for (MS) office work and such a 4G machine should be fine (for now). If you plan to use the laptop for 3+ years the 8G version would help you be more future proof. I don't think the difference in the i5 vs i7 is that big of a deal and would probably not be noticeable unless you are comparing the two with benchmarks. My two cents.

 

Thanks for replying. That was really useful. I think that the CPU is lately a mute point as the lower i5 is going to be fine with most things you can throw at it but I can't live with the 4gb of ram. like you say it doesn't offer good future proofing and when we are talking only an extra ton for the faster processor and double ram you got to take future proofing into account. I just wish they did middle spec version in the orange, the silver looks so dream and normal