[nabs-l] I3 v. I5 Processor

[Littlefield, Tyler]

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Hello:
I'll second what david said mostly.
You'll want at least 8 gb, 16 is probably overkill. My tablet has 8
and I do some fairly intensive work.
I3 is pretty cheap but you will not get the same performance. Having
seen the size of some law books, you'll want more processing power to
parse and read them. I recommend the i5. This will also help Jaws and
make everything generally faster.
Also as david said, you will need a 64 bit system. It's generally
quicker and will allow you to address higher than 3.something gb ram
(PAE included).

HTH,
On 6/10/2015 1:06 PM, David Andrews via nabs-l wrote:
> 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
> 
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