500GB vs 750GB Hard Drive for Gaming?

I'm looking at laptops for solely gaming purposes and was wondering what was better to have, a 500 or a 750GB @ 5400rpm Hard Drive?

The games that are going to be played on either range anywhere from Minecraft to Skyrim/ESO.

The two HP laptops I'm considering buying have these comparable specs:

HP Pavilion G7-2269WM
6GB DDR3 SDRAM (2 DIMM)
1.9GHz up to 2.8GHz Next Gen AMD Quad-Core A8-4500M Accelerated Processor
AMD Radeon HD 7640G Discrete-Class graphics and up to 3060MB total graphics memory
750GB 5400RPM hard drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
Genuine Windows 8 Home Premium (64-bit)

HP Pavilion 17z-e100
6GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 Processor [or can switch out for AMD Quad -Core Processor A4-5000 Processor]
1GB AMD Radeon™ HD 8670M Discrete
500GB 5400 rpm Hard Drive
Windows 8.1 64

The second is highly customizable but with better specs it costs more; also I know its default graphics card is already slightly better than the firsts.

Since the computers are basically the same, is there anyway I could upgrade the first laptops graphic card [7640] to the latter [8670]?

Rika

I think the 500 GB computer is better. Although the processor A6 is pretty slow for gaming, it has a dedicated graphics card (M series). Graphics card matters more for gaming.

wills

There are only two parts of a typical OEM laptop that you can upgrade: the RAM and the hard drive. So while a 500GB hard drive might not be enough to store all your games, you can always get another hard drive later, or even grab a USB 3.0 external hard drive and install the games to that. Better to get the one with the nicer graphics card.

Guest

If you are after a purely gaming laptop why not just get a desktop which can be cheaper and can have far superior performance?

But anyhow my computer has 1tb hard drive and i've used just over 600gb of that, i pretty much only use this computer for gaming so that is probably about 500gb in game data alone… (I have only had this computer / been a pc gamer for a few months now… So i don't have a giant collection of games, probably about 10)

If your a hardcore gamer that will get alot of games on your pc get the biggest hdd you can afford and don't look at the hard drives revs, look at the read / write speeds

Karl

If you play a lot of games, you're going to want more hard drive space. The second laptop has a dedicated graphics card, which is a huge bonus over the first laptop's integrated graphics.

If needed you can always upgrade the laptop's hard drive. Toshiba has a very nice 1TB aluminum USB 3.0 hard drive that can be found at Sam's Club, and last I checked they costed $75. I bought its previous version after I ran out of space on my internal 500 GB hard drive.

Also, as a general rule, always leave 15% of your hard drive's space open. Any less and Windows may slow down.

Chris

If you want 20GB space for free, this service is the best:
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Sandrino