Is a 4th gen intel processor bad?

[kir13y]

So I am looking for a new gaming laptop and I have the choice for a 4th gen intel with higher base clock or 6th gen with a lower base clock. Which should I get?

 

[hst101rox]

Well, it is a laptop so you won't really be able to upgrade anything. Honestly, the bandwidth difference is marginal, and devs wont ever optimize specifically for Skylake. If you really wan't to get the more expensive one, go for it! But for gaming, there will be no difference. (If you are willing to spend the money for the Skylake, I recommend to instead go with a better GPU ROG laptop, such as the 980m).

Some laptops do have an upgradable GPU, like the MSI GT60(I think), GT70, GT72, GT80. RAM, hard drive just about always. optical drive (if applicable) is likley, like going from DVD to a bluray writer. Sometimes you can upgrade the screen.
CPU, in the past, sometimes, skylake, not really.

So do you think I should get a 5th or 6th gen cpu and worse gpu (960m) or should I get the 4th gen cpu with the better gpu (970m). Here is the links to the laptops: 6th gen, 4th gen. I guess what I am asking is: which laptop of these two has the better value?

I agree with AkhilM. Skylake doesn't bring much of any CPU performance increase per clock, but some more power efficiency I'm sure. For gaming (or distributed computing projects 😉), get the cheaper one, better GPU! Otherwise new one is just good for the PCI express SSDs, twice the RAM capability, but I doubt you'll miss that at all, it's overkill anyway. + a bigger battery on the cheaper one though still doesn't store that much power