“Is the processor i7-8750H or i5-8300H? I'm confused, best buy says i7-8750H but the lenovo website says i5-8300H. Who do I believe?”
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Model number 81FV0001US ships with the Intel Core i7-8750H processor.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.The base model for $750 has a quad core i5. The upgraded versions for sale at Best Buy both have hex core 8th gen i7 processors. From Lenovo you are also able to get this laptop with an SSD instead of or along with the hdd.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.The BestBuy 81FV0001US Legion Y530 build offers only one Intel Core-i7 option, which is the i7-8750H. While the stated clock speed looks "slower" than the older revision quad-core Core-i7 that was available on the Legion Y520, the 8750H is, in fact, a faster and much more capable CPU. Think of the *hexa-core* 8750H as being a baby XEON CPU. More cores, threads and higher sustained single and multi-threaded compute speeds than the previous i7-s. Even more important, the 8750H is fully *hardware patched* against the "Meltdown" vulnerability and partially hardware patched against "Spectre." Previous revisions of Intel CPU-s require UEFI/BIOS and OS mitigations to protect against Meltdown and Spectre. The early firmware/software patches caused a lot of system instabilities. Even after the crash-bugs were wrung out over time, firmware/software CPU patches still reduce overall CPU performance. The 8750H fully supports Intel-VT and Intel-SGX extensions (even though the Y530 does not report them at the OS level). You enable VT and/or SGX in the UEFI setup; the corresponding Win10 services will discover what you enabled. The 81FV0001US is a custom Lenovo build for BestBuy. There are other CPU variants (i3, i5) available direct from Lenovo for the Legion Y530, but you buy those from Lenovo, not BestBuy.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Best Buy https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/core/i7-processors/i7-8750h.html
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Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.The 1TB only has the i7 CPU, which this item is. The 256GB SSD version has the i3 CPU. I'm not sure if you can add a storage but I would choose the 256GB SSD and i3 if you cannot upgrade the storage, otherwise, the i7 would be the better choice since you cannot upgrade the CPU at all no matter what.
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