Looking for a cheap laptop, 6th gen i3 or 7th gen i3?

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Straypuft

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Looking for something I can foll around with while on the road, mostly for web browsing and light photo editing(mostly just cropping and resizing)

Gotta be from Best Buy since I have a large gift card for to halve the price.

There is the Dell 7th Gen i3 7100u: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/dell-in...ck/5709800.p?skuId=5709800&productCategoryId=

Only thing going for it it seems is its touch screen, But I have no real use for that since I hate finger-smudged screens


And then there is the 6th Gen i3 6100u: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo-...ard-drive-ebony-black/5707528.p?skuId=5707528

$30 cheaper which the extra moneys saved could be used for many snacks(I like snacks)(I cannot stress enough that I enjoy the "random" snack here and there)

There might be an odd Steam game here and there, but nothing graphics intensive, maybe Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, Prison Architect, FTL, SNES emulator


Also, never owned a Dell or Lenovo laptop. So if there is some kind of bloatware preinstalled, I could easily reinstall the OS with original Windows 10 media.
 
All I can say is the hard drives in those types of machines are abysmally slow. I have an Acer with like specs, salvaged 16GB of RAM from an MSI gaming laptop that I upgraded and stuck in a spare 120GB cheapo SSD and the thing flies for daily use.
 
I would have no problem adding in an SSD when the time its needed, I would most likely take out the dvd drive and get a compatible caddy thingy to place the 1TB drive into the empty dvd drive
 
You might want to check to see if either of those models will take an M.2 SSD. If so, you could pick that up and keep the 1TB inside it.
 
Seventh gen Intel has excellent battery life

My wife's i3 7th gen Intel laptop lasts about 12 hours on light use on a single charge.
 
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