The absolute best upgrade you could possibly do to any laptop, is to replace the hard drive with a solid state drive. Lastly, I want to talk about the elephant in the room. This I think takes the ram off the table as the difference is negligible and the solution (to a problem that doesn't yet exist) is very easy. Maybe down the track you need a bit more, but it's an easy cheap upgrade that any computer geek with their salt could do in a flash.
6GB would likely be enough for anything you need to do for now. There are another few factors here, ram is cheap (~$20 USD for 4gb) and very easy and quick to upgrade in any machine.
Once you have enough ram, adding more will make absolutely no difference. However, once you have a large enough desk, and you have enough space for everything you want to do, you could make that desk 10 times larger, and it wouldn't make a lick of difference. This is great and means that the computer has loads of space to have heaps of stuff open at once and will run nice and fast without having to go back to the filing cabinet all the time. So you get more ram, which is like getting a larger desk. If your desk is too small, and gets full of stuff, the computer has to constantly go backwards and forwards to the filing cabinet to swap the files around, and this obviously takes AGES. When you load something up (including windows itself) the computer goes to that filing cabinet, pulls out the files it needs and puts then on the desk for you to use. Ram is the size of your desk, where the hard drive is the filing cabinet in the corner. Here's link to cpuboss which, while not necessarily a perfect apples to apples comparison, does give a pretty good idea of performance. So the i3 is going to be a much better option all round. So it's going to run at half the speed on an the atom based pentium quad core, than it is on the i3. This means any single program is only going to use a single core. This might sound like they're about even, but bear in mind that most software DOES NOT deal with multiple cores. Cool things, but not really fit for purpose when it comes to a personal use laptop/PCĪs for performance, without going into to too much detail, the Pentium's per core processing power is around half of the i3, but it has twice as many cores. They're great for things like chrome books etc, set top boxes, and tiny stick PCs like the Intel compute stick. These chips are super low powered, cheap to make, and came from the netbook era. The current generation of pentiums have come from the intel Atom architecture. Actual Pentiums came out in the 90's and were their main product line. Here's a couple of things that others haven't quite grasped yet.įirstly the name "Pentium" is now just a marketing term usually referring to Intels cheapest range of processors. Hi Liza and everyone else who came across this page looking for useful answers.
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