Is the difference between these two worth $100?

li33gwm

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Looking at two Lenovo all in one's that are $100 apart in price - they are both 23" screens/monitors.

The first one (cheaper) is: 1) Intel® 3rd Generation Core™ i3, 2) 6GB Memory, 3) 1TB Hard Drive, 4) Intel® HD Graphics 4000

The second one ($100) more is: 1) Intel Core i5-3230M 2.60 GHz with Turbo Boost Technology up to 3.20 GHz, 2) 8GB Memory, 3) 1TB Hard Drive, 4) Intel HD Graphics 4000 with shared graphics memory

Any help would be greatly appreciated. We are buying four of these for office use (email, Office, web, etc). Thanks!!!

 

mriehm

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If you are just using them for email, office, and web, there is no reason to buy the more expensive one.

The difference between 6GB and 8 GB of memory would only be seen if you were doing high resolution multimedia editing, and the difference between the CPUs would only be seen in similar high intensity work scenarios and also in games. In my opinion, the only significant performance upgrade applicable to a modern office machine is upgrading from an HDD to an SDD, but that can be pretty expensive.