[nabs-l] I3 v. I5 Processor

[David Andrews]

Without knowing the specs of either, in general, the i5 would be 
better than the I3, newer, faster etc.  However, as important, or 
more important is adequate memory, that is primary problem with your 
2 gig machine.  I would consider 4 to be the absolute minimum with a 
screen reader, 8 or 16 if you run a lot of tasks, and machine is 64 
bit.  A 32 bit machine can't address above 4.

Dave

At 03:51 AM 6/10/2015, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I am planning to buy a new laptop and am confused between two
>machines: Dell Inspiron 3148 and 7348. My confusion stems from the
>fact that the former runs on an I3 processor, whereas the latter runs
>on an I5 processor. While I have been able to acquire a fairly
>detailed understanding of the differences between these two on the
>basis of some online research, I would be extremely grateful if any of
>you could speak to the differences between these 2 processors from the
>standpoint of a JAWS user. More specifically, I am a law student and
>use my laptop for reading a lot of documents, using MS Office, email,
>social networking and am acquired to use highly advanced MS Word
>functions like track changes and footnotes all the time. Further, I
>have to work with multiple applications like Adobe Reader, MS Word and
>a web browser simultaneously. I am really frustrated with the
>performance of the machine that I currently have, as it runs on a Dual
>Core processor and merely has 2gb RAM.
>While I am really keen to go for the Inspiron 7348, it is a lot more
>expensive than the 3148 which is why I am not sure which one I should
>choose.
>Any concrete suggestions would be immensely appreciated.
>
>Best,
>Rahul