Is This My Best Bet?

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I'm looking for a new laptop. I'm coming from an i3 acer laptop. I'm just looking for something that is more powerful to handle all the programs I run simultaneously, but with more efficiency.

I also want the computer to be great for watching movies in HD. My current laptops screen resolution is running at it's max of 1366x768 -- which kind of sucks.

Lastly, I'm not a gamer, but as a bonus it would be nice to be able to finally play Diablo 3 or some of the other stuff.

I'm starting to feel like my best option around the 1000$ mark is the Dell 15 7000 series:

Specs:

6th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-6700HQ Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.50 GHz)]

8GB Single channel DDR3L 1600MHz (8GBx1)

1TB 5.4k Hybrid HDD + 8G Cache [1TB 5400 rpm Hybrid Hard Drive + 8GB Embedded Flash Cache]

NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960M 4GB GDDR5

15.6-inch FHD (1920 x 1080) Anti-Glare LED-Backlit Display

Would you agree?

Also, they have an upgrade: for 200$ more you can upgrade the display to 3840 x 2160, an extra 8gb ram stick, and they add an 128gb SSD on top of the HDD.

Is this worth the 200$ more?

 

[_Vass]

that looks like a beast laptop. maybe a little overkill for your current needs but that vanishes over the years as everything requires more powerfull hardware.
also yes 200$ for such an upgrade is really good. i imagined they would ask more than that for just upgrading to a ssd.

 

[BadActor]

Upping the resolution will hurt gaming, but for everything else, you might like it. You can always add an SSD yourself if you find one that doesn't have one. They can be added for around 50 dollars for a 256 GB. RAM is also fairly cheap and easy to add.

https/www.amazon.com/Dell-15-6-Inch-Quad-Core-i5-6300HQ-Processor/dp/B015PYYDMQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1465947322&sr=8-1&keywords=i7559

 

[hang-the-9]

At that high of a resolution for the upgrade, a 15.6" screen will have tiny text. The Dell linked above is a great system that has good parts out of the box with a not too high res screen for the size. And you save $400 over the system you listed if you include the upgrades.

If you run many programs or have many web tabs open, you can upgrade that dell to 16 GB RAM and it will run lots of things at the same time.

The i7 in the original system will be better when doing CPU intensive tasks like video encoding or working with large spreadsheet calculations. The think I don't like about the system is that it is almost great stock, but is a bit over what you will like using with the upgrade. If you can get the i7 Dell and just do a SSD upgrade, that would be ideal if you don't mind the extra cost over the i5 system.