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Ideas on new laptop
I bought a HP G3 with i5 @ 1.6GHz a while ago but find it rather slow to run and it needs almost a complete tear down to replace the hard drive and RAM for a SSD and 4GB upgrade.
So I am currently looking at a Toshiba Satellite R50 Laptop 15.6" i5-5200U 750GB or a Lenovo B50-70 Laptop 15.6" i5-4200U 4GB 500GB.
Now both are around $600 and I intend to swap out the harddrive for an SSD and more RAM but the Toshiba is a bit more difficult to do that than the Lenovo, in that the whole bottom plate has to come off on the Toshiba whereas the Lenovo has small plates that come off - much easier to do.
But my conundrum is that the Toshiba has a faster base speed CPU and better turbo speed than the Lenovo has. The machine is intended to be my travel laptop and for emails and general net work.
So any ideas on which machine anyone else would buy??