LogFAQs > #950645557

Your bottom lines if you want a general-purpose laptop are a recent i3 or Ryzen 3, or better, CPU. To tell if it's recent, look at the four or five digit model number after the "i3" / "i5" / etc designation. The first digit tells you which generatoin it is, eg. i7 6700 is 6th-generation. For Intel (i3 etc) you want at least 8th gen and preferably 10th; for AMD (Ryzen 3 etc) you want at least 3rd. (It's important to note the generation should only be used when comparing the same brand, not to compare the two brands to each other.)

That aside, you want 8GB RAM and 256GB solid state drive. A little bit lower than 256GB is okay - 240 is fine for example - but you don't want to be getting something with ~128GB, it'll fill up way too quickly.

If you're after a gaming laptop, up that to an i5 / Ryzen 5 (same generations are still fine), and you might want either a larger SSD or a "small SSD + big HDD combo" setup (you should still try to get 256GB at least for the SSD if possible). You'll also want a decent GPU, I believe a GTX 1660 Ti or RTX 2060 is considered good as a "cheapish but still solid" GPU these days, but I could very well be wrong as I'm not too up to date on the GPU side of things.

But yeah - most important things, do NOT get Celeron / Pentium / Athlon CPUs, and don't settle for less than 256ish GB SSD.

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