Laptop Spec Question

Definitely the second model.
8 GB RAM is plenty for what the laptop will be used for, and you'll have double the amount of storage space.

 

I am sure gamers would say gaming should be included in that "normal stuff" a college/young adult would want their notebooks to handle and as such, would opt for the 16GB version. But I agree with Eldon and would go for the 8GB of RAM and twice as much disk space. 8GB will still provide excellent "game play" and the larger disk space will provide more space for more games - which can be HUGE!

 

I'd also go for the second. If college / school involved there may be other software, notes, papers for classes and such so the storage would be better and not fill up the SSD so much.

 

Hi my friend , my opinion is that , you have to look for high quality's ssd like samsung 850 pro or intel 535 , the more ram is always better

 

It would be nice if we could pick and choose components we want to go in notebooks, but sadly, consumers generally, due to the proprietary nature of notebooks, have to take what is offered.

While I also like the Samsung 850 Pro SSDs, SSDs in general are very reliable devices and for the stated purpose of this system, I would not worry about the brand inside. As for performance, the slowest SSD will run circles around the fastest hard drive. And the fact these are PCIe based SSDs in these notebooks, they likely are faster than typical SATA SSDs. So I would not worry about performance either.