Help: Laptop for University

[aye009]

Hi,

I need to decide on buying a laptop for university, definitely under £500. I will be using it mainly for work (MS Office), web browsing and streaming, and would like it to be able to handle many different tasks at once (such as several tabs). I have it narrowed down to two:

http/www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/lenovo-yoga-510-14-2-in-1-black-10146159-pdt.html
LENOVO YOGA 510 14" 2 in 1, AMD A9-9410 APU, 1TB HDD

http/www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/hp-pavilion-15-au078sa-15-6-laptop-gold-10146521-pdt.html
HP Pavilion 15-au078sa, Intel® Core™ i5-6200U Processor, 256 SSD.

As far as I can tell, the only major difference are in cpu and HDD/SSD. I don't think I'd need anywhere near 256gb (and would be willing to buy an external drive later). Can someone please tell me which laptop is likely to handle more demanding tasks better? And whether one laptop would be better for light gaming (not to be used for games often at all).

Thanks

 

[woodson75]

Personally I'd go for the HP - Intel outweighs AMD every time, plus the added bonus of the SSD for fast boot times and all round faster read/write speeds, will make for a nice, nifty little machine.

 

[aye009]

Personally I'd go for the HP - Intel outweighs AMD every time, plus the added bonus of the SSD for fast boot times and all round faster read/write speeds, will make for a nice, nifty little machine.

Do you think the intel would outperform the amd even with the amd's higher clock speeds? (sorry I know very little about computers)