Which processor?

well-medicated

I need a new laptop urgently [I discovered that mine doesn't bounce].

I'm quite keen on an Acer i5, 6Gb RAM, 500Gb selling for a little over £400. I'm trying to compare with others, and this is where I NEED HELP.

Can someone advise me what other Intel/AMD etc processors would be equivalent to the i5? Like us all, I want to get the best that I can afford.

TIA

fwor

Specifying "i5" is pretty much meaningless, because the i5 range covers maybe 40 different CPUs - some with 2 cores, some quad, and with a wide range of clock speeds.

If you want to compare the CPUs in 2 different laptops to work out which is "better" then there are plenty of CPU benchmark lists that will give you comparative numbers.

However, it depends what you want to use the laptop for. For most "ordinary" users, CPU power is really not that important - the "average" laptop CPU will spend the vast majority of its life (by a long, long way) doing nothing - simply sitting in the idle process waiting for something to happen. These days the CPU makers have moved their attention to such things as lower power consumption and better graphics rather than absolute performance.

Anyway, if you do want to obsess about which CPU is better between two laptops, you need to know the ~exact~ CPU in each (e.g. Intel Core i5-2500K) and then look up both on one of the benchmark sites.

well-medicated

Thanks FWOR. That'll get me started on the right path.