Need help with a new laptop

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Dulfite said:
I just got the i5 over i7 windows surface 2. Everything I read basically said the i7 is only about 6% faster, eats more battery, and costs hundreds more. I'm not disappointed in my purchase, though it will primarily be used for me writing books and my wife and I watching shows.

Those are Y series processors, not H series. And yes, in the Y series, there's little difference between the i3,i5 and i7 because the low TDP (around 7W maximum) just doesn't allow for much in between. It's also very misleading, as an Y series i7 gets trashed by any U series i3 and would get trashed by an H series Celeron if Intel would make those.

In fact, for your purpose, you could have chosen the base configuration, I don't think the performance would have suffered at all.