ASUS Zenbook VS Lenovo Ideapad 500

eastender1234

Hi all

I'm not techie at all but I'm attempting to buy a laptop for my partner for christmas. He will be using it for standard stuff really; browsing, downloading (predominantly), not gaming.

I've narrowed it down to two:

1) ASUS Zenbook UX305 £599.99 (recently missed £499.99 offer).

Intel Core M5Y10 Processor. 8GB memory. 128GB SSD.


2) Lenovo Ideapad 500 £699.99 (£100 cashback offer available).

Intel Core i7-6500u processor. 12GB memory. 1TB storage.


I'm struggling to pick between the two because I don't totally understand all that I need to know.

If anyone can give any pointers, I would be ever grateful

Susie_Richards

2) Lenovo Ideapad 500 £699.99 (£100 cashback offer available).

Intel Core i7-6500u processor. 12GB memory. 1TB storage.


Is the better machine by far!

An i7 processor.

12 GB memory (opposed to 8GB)

A ITB of storage (rather than a poor 128GB)

pappa_golf

well you should think about that "poor SSD drive" , an SSD drive is one of the fastest items on a modern machine , is 1T of storage "needed" on a laptop?


SSD drive for the o/s and proggys , a nice cheap portable drive for the masses of photos etc

eastender1234

That's what I though initially, but there are excellent review upon excellent review for the ASUS, so thought I might be missing something.

Also, regarding the 1TB storage vs 128GB SSD, I understand the latter is less, but I read something that said SSD is much better, but subsequently more expensive. So again, I wasn't sure when considering that fact, which was better

pappa_golf

a SSD drive is much faster than a standard drive (upto 5 times?) , cost for cost they probably cost the same , a quick google/amazon/ebay shows a 120g SSD retailing at about £36 and a 1t hard drive at about £40.