The original post: /r/pcmasterrace by /u/ExistentialEnd4404 on 2024-12-02 18:22:16.

I posted this over on r/laptops, but have yet to get any advice so I’m hoping you kind people can weigh in.

I’m out of the loop on laptop CPUs and their naming conventions don’t seem to be as straightforward as the desktop side.

The 155H does seem to be the better chip overall as evident in its name and pricing, but for office work and daily use, will there be any noticeable gains from the 155H over the 150U? And office work I mean Word and Excel mainly, and nothing even coming close to pushing the limits on what Excel can do. There will be HD video watching. I’d say 4K but the screens aren’t 4K, 1920x1080 max. Word or Excel opening 0.2 seconds faster on one vs the other isn’t the kind of thing to sway a decision.

There may be an outside chance (probably 1% or less) of doing some light gaming, but it’s not a real concern that this will be used for games.

From what I can find, the 150U seems to outperform in single-core and also may conserve battery life better as its max power draw is slightly less than half of the max for the 155H. Anything multi-core the 155H wins hands down, but in this scenario I don’t know how useful that would actually be. The user is not an Excel power user by any stretch. The 155H iGPU is also miles better than the 150U.