Budget 21-30k i3 5th gen or wait for 6th gen ?

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A Friend of mine is in urgent need of buying a laptop !

He suggest i3 though i told to going for i5 one ...

Budget limits he says !

Primary use will be Coding on DotNet, Android studio, adobe illustrator, adobe photoshop, web browsing ( facebook and twitter guy [emoji19] )

Entertainment is one more his primary activity like movies on go in train or railway station ( waiting hrs ) [emoji12]

we have one option in mind , that is lenovo G50-80 but its i3 5th gen.

can someone put some light it when is i3 6th gen laptops going to be launched in 14-15 inch segment ?

Lenovo yoga 300 is there but its only 11.4 inch.

Can he install mac os x on it with linux or windows ?

what other options do we have ?
also he wishs to upgrade the laptops internal hdd to ssd and get ram upto 16 gb in future upgrades...

Budget is around 30k (+/-) ...
 
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First of all tell me what is the budget of your friend?????

If he want for coding, photoshop and browsing then i think i3 processors are enough for it. But there are few laptops which I would like to suggest, if your friends budget is upto 30k.

If you want you can search for more details of the following laptops. They are chances of getting it for less than 30k on flipkart or amazon on the ocassion of New Year.


These are the few laptops which I would like to suggest.
1. HP 14-ac108tu

  • Processor: 2GHz Core i3 5005U (5th gen)
  • RAM: 4GB DDR3 RAM
  • Hard Disk: 1TB -5400 RPM Hard Disk
  • Display: 14 inch 1366 x 768 Pixels display
  • Graphics card: HD 5500
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Weight: 1.94kg
2. Acer Aspire E5-573

  • Processor: 2.7GHz Core i5 5210U (5th gen)
  • RAM: 4GB DDR3 RAM
  • Hard Disk: 500GB -5400 RPM Hard Disk
  • Display: 15.6 inch 1366 x 768 Pixels display
  • Graphics card: HD 5500
  • OS: Linux
  • Weight: 2.4kg
3. Acer Aspire E5-573-587Q

  • Processor: 2.7GHz Core i5 M4210U (4th gen)
  • RAM: 4GB DDR3 RAM
  • Hard Disk: 1TB -5400 RPM Hard Disk
  • Display: 15.6 inch 1366 x 768 Pixels display
  • Graphics card: HD 4400
  • OS:Linux
  • Weight: 2.4kg
4. Acer One 14 Z1402-394D.

  • Processor: 2GHz Intel Core i3 5005u(5th gen)
  • RAM: 4GB DDR3 RAM
  • Hard Disk: 500GB -5400 RPM Hard Disk
  • Display: 14 inch 1366 x 768 Pixels display
  • Graphics card: HD 5500
  • OS: Windows 10
5. HP Pavillion ac125tu

  • Processor: 2.1GHz Core i3 5010U (5th gen)
  • RAM: 4GB DDR3 RAM
  • Hard Disk: 1TB -5400 RPM Hard Disk
  • Display: 15.6 inch 1366 x 768 Pixels display
  • Graphics card: HD 5500
  • OS: Free DOS
  • Weight: 2.19kg
 
i3 5th gen vs. i3 6th gen - is the waiting for it in entery level laptops worthy ?
How much battery backup efficiency or increase can be expected ?
 
Acer aspire e5 with 5th gen i5 processor is what i am asking my friend to go for as i5 6th gen starts around 46k and i3 6th gen in question ! Don't know when they will brining in them for normal laptops ...
 
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