Which laptop?

It has been a while since I've been able to buy anything computer related, and it is really starting to show. My old asus ULV SU 7300 laptop has tons of issues these days, and has a dead battery. Bought that back in the day for the 10+ hour battery life, which didn't hold for very long....and my desktop is dying as well, taking parts from an even older system, psu, graphics x2, and now the sound no longer works no matter what I try. So I've saved up some amazon gift cards, and am looking for a laptop to start out with before I can build another desktop. I haven't been keeping up with trends, speeds, or much of anything, so I could use some of the know how from people who have.

Which of these laptops would you go with and why:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CY2LWPT/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A2L77EE7U53NWQ&psc=1

or

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0762S8PYM/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_1?smid=A2L77EE7U53NWQ&psc=1

They seem similar enough, biggest difference I see is one has an AMD and the other is an intel. It would be used mostly for streaming video while connected to my tv(1080p), internet surfing, and that is about it.

Any thoughts would be appreciated =-)

Thanks!

I'd lean towards the AMD one here -- it has a FireCuda Hybrid drive, which is better than a plain HD, although it only has 6GB of RAM instead of 8. You could of course upgrade the RAM though. This one looks like a better buy alltogether: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07J9W3HNW/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A2L77EE7U53NWQ&th=1 -- Much better CPU and moves to a real SSD and has 8GB of ram, yet still cheaper than the Intel one you listed above.

extide said:

I'd lean towards the AMD one here -- it has a FireCuda Hybrid drive, which is better than a plain HD, although it only has 6GB of RAM instead of 8. You could of course upgrade the RAM though. This one looks like a better buy alltogether: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07J9W3HNW/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A2L77EE7U53NWQ&th=1 -- Much better CPU and moves to a real SSD and has 8GB of ram, yet still cheaper than the Intel one you listed above.

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I probably should have added, I will do some eventual upgrades to whatever I buy. With both selected I would have bought an SSD and more ram since it appears to have additional slots for both. And also going the amazon warehouse route to save some more money =-)

I'd go with the upgraded AMD one with the R5/8GB/SSD.

Seems like every new Spectre/Meltdown mitigation is make and bigger performance hit, and AMD chips have largely been immune to most of the vulnerabilities lately. I think it's just a matter of time before HyperThreading is outright disabled on a large number of systems. Which means you're thread counts with Intel CPU's will be cut in half.