AMD APU vs Intel processors Ideapad 320-14AST

Went shopping with a a friend Suzika because her laptop fried..
instead of changing the mother board which her computer was giving other problems already..

so yeah.. got a Lenovo ideapad 320-14AST
with a AMD A9-9420 processor.. which they said was equivalent to a Intel i5
but it was cheaper... at RM1899 ..

Why lenovo over other brands like Toshiba, Asus or Acer (i personally like acer.. my Aspire V3-471G is so reliable.. well.. after changing the hardisk)

i was thinking of upgrading it even more with a HDD caddy
https://hddcaddy.eu/acer-aspire-v3-471-hdd-caddy/

putting in a 2TB seagate firecuda (cause they have that hybrid SSHD) and my current Samsung EVO 126GB is outta space... but yeah.. its pricey at RM460.. compared to the 1TB version (RM350)

sigh.. well atleast i've maxed out the 16GB ram (2x Kingston DDR3 8Gb ... well yeah i like my laptop alot..

anyways .. AMD has made a good thing by combining the CPU and GPU to allow each other to help one another process stuff.. which.. Intel and Nvidea doesn't do on mine..

APU and SSHD... these are really good technologies for laptops...
and hers has DDR4 ... (i think the extra 200 bucks is worth it for the better processor and newer RAM).. atleast she can upgrade her RAM next time easily instead of trying to find the old DDR3..

well.. i hope she's happy with the purchase and it'll last her for a long long long time to come!
and it comes with a free G03 watch worth RM400+ .. haha well

UPDATE (16 Jan 2018): something is bottlenecking it for heavy computer usage. The mouse disappears, google Earth becomes white, QGIS loads slowly... ANd i just found out that there is only ONE ram slot.. meaning she'll have to buy a 8GB DDR4 RAM to REPLACE the 4gb one, instead of just adding onto it. sigh. And the free watch is crap lah. And you can't put an M.2 NVMe SSD inside unlike the vbigger 15' version wit the number pad. LOLZ... so many things.. don;t purchase a laptop when you aren't feeling well and have fever. DOnt rush a laptop buy but do the research first. Owh well.. maybe the last saving grace would be to throw in and SSD and more RAM and hopefully that punches up the A9 to full capabilities.