Jim Gardner
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I am looking to upgrade my current laptop (i5 6GB RAM Windows 7 64 bit). I need a fairly large HD eg >500GB because of an extensive music collection and lots of digital pictures and would like to upgrade to an Intel i7 processor but I am having difficulty deciding on whether to go for either a) hybrid SSD, (a) plain HD or (c) SSD only. The three laptops I am considering all have the same processor and graphics but have the following differences (a) 1TB HD, 8GB RAM and 8GB SSD (b) 1TB HD and 16GB RAM (c) No HD 16GB RAM and 256GB SSD.
Obviously if I went for (c) I would need to think about offloading a lot of files to external HD as my current HD uses 450GB of storage (I have over 110GB in Music files and also lots of Digital pictures etc so offloading to external HD may be an issue - I dont know if iTunes will work ok from external HD for example)
So the main question may be between (a) and (b) ie 8GB RAM/8GB SSD vs 16GB RAM ? I appreciate that SSD will provide faster bootup however once my laptop has booted will the 16GB RAM be a better option? I should say that the main use of my laptop is NOT gaming - I use it for surfing, Email, MS Office and to a lesser extent picture/video editing.
I have assumed up to now that RAM wins out over SSD in terms of performance so are we really talking about the initial load times of , say, Excel/Word etc?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Obviously if I went for (c) I would need to think about offloading a lot of files to external HD as my current HD uses 450GB of storage (I have over 110GB in Music files and also lots of Digital pictures etc so offloading to external HD may be an issue - I dont know if iTunes will work ok from external HD for example)
So the main question may be between (a) and (b) ie 8GB RAM/8GB SSD vs 16GB RAM ? I appreciate that SSD will provide faster bootup however once my laptop has booted will the 16GB RAM be a better option? I should say that the main use of my laptop is NOT gaming - I use it for surfing, Email, MS Office and to a lesser extent picture/video editing.
I have assumed up to now that RAM wins out over SSD in terms of performance so are we really talking about the initial load times of , say, Excel/Word etc?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!