From these two? I would take the i5, even for generic use. The trailing U in i3-4010U stands for Ultra-low voltage. It is good for battery life, but bad for performance. Based on the previous machine your father will probably use this new for a long time again, so getting the stronger machine may be a good idea even if it is more expensive.
Side note: unless your father types without looking at the keys, you may want to double check that the laptop comes with some "sane" keyboard. German can be surprising already, and a Greek keyboard may be really confusing even if Latin letters are included too.
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Thanks for your input.
The German one comes with a QWERTZ layout keyboard but that's not really a problem since I can put stickers to change the layout to QWERTY.
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Isn't GT 840M >>>> R5 M230 by a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooong shot? (u may refer here http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphic-Cards.13849.0.html for benchmark -gaming wise)
And that 1GB extra Vram will help A LOT in CAD rendering.
EDIT: And the G510 screen is only 720p (1366x768) whilst the Z50-70 is already 1080p (1920x1080)
Conclusion : Definitely Z50-70
EDIT2: the r5 is like 4 generation behind.. now laptops uses r9 graphics
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Hello guys,
I'm in need of a new laptop for my father. It's going to be used for CAD drawings, text editing with Word, excel sheets, e-banking, internet surfing and streaming.
I'm between these 2 laptops.
1) Lenovo G510 with Intel I5-4210M/4GB/1TB/R5 M230 1GB for 460€ from a Greek eshop.
2) Lenovo Z50-70 με Intel i3-4010U/4GB/500GB/GeForce 840M 2 GB for 340€ from Amazon.de
I know that the i5-4210M is much better compared to the i3-4010U, since it's lacking hyper threading and clock speed.
Note that the same tasks are done currently on an Acer Apire 9423 from 2007 with Windows Vista, Core 2 Duo 1.6Ghz, 1GB Ram and 128MB GeForce Go 7300.
Thanks for your time! :)
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