Not Sure Which of the 2 Following Laptops to Buy

[bdaley46]

These are the 2 laptops I'm looking at:

Acer (i7-4510U / 1 TB HDD / 8 GB RAM / GeForce 840M)

HP (i5-5200U / 750 GB hybrid drive with 8 GB SSD / 8 GB RAM / GeForce 830M)

So from what I've researched the 4th gen i7 will outperform the 5th gen i5 by a bit and the 840M is slightly better than the 830M. Overall are these 2 laptops pretty comparable?

I think what I'm most curious about is whether I should go for the standard hard drive or the hybrid. Do you think I would see a noticeable difference in boot times with the hybrid? Do I get the hybrid at the expense of a slightly slower CPU and GPU?

I plan on some casual gaming such as Call of Duty Ghosts & Far Cry 4 (I'd be fine with medium graphics). Not worried about running future games a whole lot.
My main goal is having a laptop that will server me well for 3-5 years.

Thanks.

 

[baburajiv2007]

What I believe is that, you wont gain much from a few seconds saved from booting.

Get the laptop with the better CPU, GPU, and higher storage.

GT840m, i7-4510 and 1 TB HDD.

Will definitely be the better choice, as well as be good for the coming years as well.

If you wait a bit, you could even get better laptops with GT940m, as they are just around the corner.

Hope this was helpful.