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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 ]