Which is the overall better laptop?

[dreamagain]

AMD Quad-Core A8-3530MX Accelerated Processor
1GB GDDR5 Radeon(TM) HD Dual Graphics [HDMI, VGA]
6GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
640GB 7200RPM Hard Drive

vs

i5-2410
2gb 6770m
4GB DDR3
640GB 7200RPM

Same screen.

 

[Maziar]

The second one has a more powerful GPU

 

[dreamagain]

Do I need 6gb of ram or is 4gb plenty?

 

[Maziar]

You won't notice much of a difference unless you do lots of heavy image/video editing

 

[ragenalien]

Even with only two physical cores the sandy-bridge based computer will still beat the Llano processor any day. Its basically an AMD Athlon with integrated graphics.