Buy what you can afford. The i7 is the newer one and a small bump in performance. It can have more cores and cache memory vs. it's i5 counterparts. If you don't want to spend the extra $$$ for the small improvement, don't.

On the hard drives, my laptop has the 2nd HDD on it. That's good for storing the music/media files, etc. If you're not comfortable tinkering with adding the drive on your own, order it with it already installed.




Steve

BIAB/RB 2022, Pro Tools 2020, Korg N5, JBL LSR 4328 Powered Monitors, AKG/Shure Mics.
PC: Win11 PRO, 4 TB M2 SSD, 2 TB HD, 128 GB Memory