Laptop choice - Your advice please!

[Deleted member 29185]

Hopefully you computer saavy FFers may be able to offer my youngest daughter some better advice than I can!

She is off travelling for a gap year before coming back to uni in 2020. Her old laptop is about cactus, so she wants to purchase a lightweight, but cost conscious replacement. Kogan seem to have two options that suit her budget and requirements. She is hoping one of them may suit her for communications and web-surfing/movies overseas as well as for uni when she returns. I have no idea, so thought I might put it out there for comment. The choices:
a) Kogan Atlas 13.3" UltraSlim X350 Notebook ($379)
b) Kogan Atlas Go 13.3" Ultimate Combo ($479)

Any feedback or suggestions would be much appreciated.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Here's the X350 manual, showing the hatch: https://assets.kogan.com/files/usermanuals/KAL13X350EA-QSG.pdf

Wow, thanks for your help. That looks easy enough. (famous last words)

Edit: any thoughts on the processors ... about the same, or markedly different?

 

[AisleSeat]

any thoughts on the processors ... about the same, or markedly different?

Processing speed is about the same, but one's dual core, the other's quad core. The quad core will perform better when multitasking.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Processing speed is about the same, but one's dual core, the other's quad core. The quad core will perform better when multitasking.

Many thanks. A day should never go by without learning something.