Currently I use my work laptop for gaming which is a Dell Latitude with i7 and 128Gb SSD.
I'm leaving my company so I need to return this laptop and have been looking to get my own laptop.
My son has a DELL, with i5 4th generation and 1Tb HD which is 5400 rpm
I put the Core Rules PDF on his laptop and opened it on both my current work laptop and my sons.
I went to page 151, and then did a search for FIREBALL
My work laptop immediately jumped to the FIREBALL spell
My son's laptop start counting the page's, 152, 153, etc
Bestbuy currently has some Lenovo's on sale.
Yoga 3, i5 5th Generation, with 256Gb SSD
Would this be fast enough since it's an SSD, would the search be fast like my work laptop, or is it the i5 vs i7?
When I game I usualy have 3-4 PDF's open at a time
Core
Bestiary I
Bestiary II
Rise of the Runelords
I've got the books as well, but I can find it faster in the PDF, and then use the book as needed
It should be fast enough.
The difference between the i5 and i7 is negligable for ordinary use, whereas the difference between a spinning hard disk and an SSD can be an order of magnitude.
I would hate to purchase a laptop, even with the SSD and find out the searching is slow.
But I'm also thinking that the SSD is the main difference.
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It should be fast enough.
The difference between the i5 and i7 is negligable for ordinary use, whereas the difference between a spinning hard disk and an SSD can be an order of magnitude.
You could always just buy an SSD upgrade kit for your son's laptop if you don't want to just go buy a whole new laptop. True, the cloning process can be a bit intimidating, but it's doable.
Amazon has SSD kits with just the cable and software for $25, or with Kingston 240 or 480 GB SSDs for $95/$180. It's not the greatest brand of drive but it's serviceable.
Edit: It might also have something to do with how much RAM the two PCs have. 4 GB just isn't really enough for any system where you're going to have multiple large PDFs open, at least from my experience.
