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I am going to buy “new” (it can be used) notebook for my work – mostly heavy surfing (I need more browsers with many tabs opened), programming and other office work.
I have no experience with this:
What would work faster (for the surfing, php programming, office work)? For example I see very good price for a notebook (Dell) with older CPU Core i5-560M, with 256 GB SSD. Or I can see for the same price many notebooks with i5 3210M with HDD (5400).
Answer: In office you mostly work with files, so the disk operations are the most common. Moreover Core i5-560M CPU can handle all the operations performed in office and the delay is caused mainly by the disk operations anyway.
Summary is faster disk will boost whole system much more than faster CPU.