More.

Seriously, for what you want, I'd look at 8 GB, and probably 16. Disks are dead easy to upgrade (at least physically) but my experience is that by the time you want to upgrade your memory, there will be a new generation out, you'll need to dig through arcane specs to make sure you're getting the right stuff, and in some boxes, it's a real pain in the fingers to put more in. To me it makes more sense to blow your budget up front with as much RAM as you can get, even if it means a slightly smaller disk. As others have said, for this you don't need discrete graphics - on any new system the builtin graphics will be fine.

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Posted by MontyFranklyn

T-Town

Member since Jan 2012

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Posted on 8/3/15 at 12:18 pm to tokenBoiler

I am looking at this Dell.

New Inspiron 15 5000 Series Touch
$629.99

5th Generation Intel® Core™ i5 Processor

Windows 10 Home

8GB Memory

1TB Hard Drive

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Touch Screen

Dells that I'm also considering

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Posted by ILikeLSUToo

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Member since Jan 2008

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Posted on 8/3/15 at 12:33 pm to tokenBoiler

quote:
To me it makes more sense to blow your budget up front with as much RAM as you can get

This advice only applies if you're buying a design with soldered modules. Otherwise, get what you need now and upgrade later. DIMMs are not hard to find, even DDR1. Budget should always focus on current, immediate performance. You don't get that from RAM that isn't being used.

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