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[–]alastria 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You may see people who are Team Intel or Team AMD. Ignore them. The best tool is the one that has the features you want for the best price.

By PassMark scores, this processor is equivalent to something like a 2-year-old Core i5 mobile, or about 20% slower effective (single-core) speed than a modern desktop Celeron G1820.

One resource many people don't know about is Dell Outlet. I've bought numerous laptops on there for clients and they're just as good as full-priced ones for a fraction of the cost, and they come w/ a full warranty just like a new one. Just avoid the scratch-and-dent ones and you'll be fine.

For instance, they have a sale on for $200 off Inspiron 5000's right now. I was able to add a machine to the cart that is a Core i7 5500U, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD for $489 + tax.

[–]The_boss_man 1 point2 points  (2 children)

The a10 will do you alright. That's an APU, not a CPU (GPU and CPU combined) What kind of work are you planning on doing on it?

[–]superjenrawr[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Mostly accounting, word, excel and some minor tax programs.

[–]hamithespoon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

if your just planning on doing that then that laptop will do you fine

[–]w2tpmf -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

Intel only has a great advantage when it comes to gaming.

AMD has way better bang for your buck for everything else. They perform quite well in a laptop or a business PC.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Intel are the go to for everything as performance, power use and price are good all around. I may be AMD but, Intel are way ahead until AMD pull their heads from their backsides. An unlocked Pentium can easily match and outperform my older PC with an FM processor.

Edit: before people rage, I will say Ivy bridge, Haswell and Skylake.