Acer Aspire 3 with Ryzen 5 quad core or Dell Inspiron 15 with Ryzen 3 dual-core for qubes?

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I am currently faced with the question of whether I should buy a new notebook and use Qubes with an Acer notebook with AMD Ryzen 5 Quad Core and 8GB or a Dell with AMD Ryzen 3 Dual Core and 16 GB RAM.

What is more important with Qubes, the number and strength of the processor cores or the RAM?

Here are the data of the notebooks

  • Acer Aspire 3 A315-23-R9H2 black, Ryzen 5 3500U (up to 3.7 GHz), quad core, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD
  • Dell Inspiron 15 3505 black, Ryzen 3 3250U (up to 3.5 GHz), dual-core, 8GB RAM + 8GB RAM upgraded, 256GB SSD

How important is the hard drive (256 GB SSD vs. 512 GB SSD) for daily use qubes?

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It all depends on your usage patterns. For me, 16 GB of RAM was not sufficient, but with 32 GB I never reach the limit. I am normally running several disposables with Firefox simultaneously.
Two cores (i7-6500U, 2.5GHz with boost to 3.1GHz) are struggling with hi-resolution Youtube videos, but 6 cores are smooth.

If you do not store a lot of data on your machine, 256 GB SSD can be sufficient. But for me it’s not.