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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Thanks cc_in_oh. I confess not knowing about this, but a lot of reviews for the HP said it was fast. Granted, that's anecdotal but the reviews for the Dell were not thrilling.
So perhaps the SSD in the HP and the faster processor in the Dell will end up being a wash?
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Found that desktop model at HP's site:
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06442766
The processor is 3200U, a 2-core, 4-thread mobile processor with a Passmark score of 4675 which should be plenty for your needs, similar to older AMD A10's. The i3 8100 is a true desktop processor with 4 cores ans a Passmark score of 8000 (close to my 2nd gen core i7). There's hardly any difference between the two GPU's. So unless you plan to add at least another 4GB to the Dell, I'd also lean toward the HP. The HP appears to have HDMI but not DVI, so make sure you have or get a monitor with HDMI (watch out for heavily discounted DVI-only models).
One thing though - you mentioned Word but not Excel. If you do much with Excel the faster i3 in the Dell would become a much bigger factor IMO as Excel is very good at maxing out all 4 cores on CPU-intensive operations like big VLOOKUPs...