Hi all,

I am seeking some advice when buying a new laptop. I am looking for budget and have, after checking out a lot of reviews decided on the Acer Aspire 5750g however the question I have is that though the specs are great 8GB of Ram and 750 GB of storage it is only powered by the i3/2310, will this be a problem?

The alternative is 5742 with 6GB of Ram and the i5/410.

Should I sacrifice power for more ram?

I am in my first year of university and studying IT and will need to download developer tools however I do no gaming whatsoever. So its basically going to be office and Visual Studio and SQL server and some photo editing(maybe some video editing).
Any advice appreciated, Thanks...Mark

When it comes to Laptops; ram is cheap - without much effort, a deft hand with a screw driver, an anti-static wrist strap and correct safety procedure - you can easily upgrade the memory in less than 30 minutes to an hour.
Processors?... not so much. Because of the confined spaces and propritary nature of M/B's, power supplies, etc - changing processor chips is usually considered outside the scope of most consumer types.

Go for the chip performance, if all things are otherwise even (get the i7 processor - upgrade the memory if you find that you need it).

Note: If you don't drop it or it doesn't get stolen (or peer pressure from richer friends) don't cause premature purchase - a laptop should be "current". more or less for 3 - to - 5 years. You could look for an gen II - i5 processor and stay in the middle??

Hi Zenner,

Cheers appreciate the sound advice. I have had my LG E300 for 4 years with 3GB of ram 120HDD and Core Duo, it was great to start with and I think in theory 3GB should be enough and I have only used around 65GB of storage but it just seems to struggle so much and I housekeep the laptop once a week.

I need VB studio on my laptop and a SQL database and also will run a virtual machine(for uni studies) and I have installed studio and unistalled( computer performance dropped big time). so I guess it is the time to upgrade.

Definitely looking at genII i5 with 6GB of Ram.

Once again thanks for the reply.