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Couldn’t find a laptop-specific community to ask this question.

I’m thinking to buy a 2nd hand/refurbished laptop.

For study purposes, browsing the internet, tinkering with a few note-taking apps like Obsidian, Capacities, Logseq etc. I’ll persue coding in future.

Will definitely use linux. Probably Zorin OS or Fedora.

My last laptop broke back in 2023 and I’ve never touched a pc/laptop since. This is probably why, I lack the understanding of computing power of laptop grade processors in today’s standard.

I just want to know that the things I’m hoping to do with my yet-to-buy laptop within a linux environment, will a i5 chipset be enough?

Here’s what specs I’m hoping to get alongside the chipset:

16 GB of DDR4 RAM ( Non-soldered ) ( At least )512 GB SSD ( any variant will do )

I’ll eventually upgrade the RAMs and SSD in future. Maybe when I’ll start coding. But for my study purposes, 16 gigs is more than enough.

Will i7 be a perfect balance with the 512 + 16 GB combination or i5 will be efficient enough?

[ Picture is collected from another Lemmy post. Excuse the picture ]

  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I find the most reasonable deal right now is to help people around you who are hell-bent on getting Windows 11 despite their current Windows 10 machines not being compatible, gently inquire about what they’re doing with their old Windows 10 PCs, see if you can score one that’s 5ish years old, which will be totally fine for most non-AAA, cutting edge games, install Linux, and try to ride that out until the bubble bursts.

    Remember… old hardware from people who want it to “just work” is the best deal in technology.

    • Nollij@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      New hardware that isn’t W11-compatible was last released in 2017, Intel 7th Gen. You’re talking 8+ years old, probably more.

      That said, an i5 6th Gen (extremely common, since these were the last to support Win7, and can easily be found on used enterprise machines) is still plenty powerful for all sorts of tasks.