Yo GD, can you guys help me out with some computer stuffs?

So I need a laptop for a college class, right? So we've been looking around for one since there's the after-christmas deals and stuffs. Nothing too fancy. A relative said their friend took the same class i'm going to take and recommended one that was similar/a bit weaker than this one: http://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/portables-et-miniportatifs/inspiron-15-5000-non-tactile-amd/spd/inspiron-15-5565-laptop/ni155565_btsb_h2860f

I just wanted to know if the processor was any good. This page should show it's stats and what not. Well, unless I looked up a different processor with a similar name but I doubt it.
http://products.amd.com/en-ca/search/APU/AMD-A-Series-Processors/AMD-A12-Series-APU-for-Laptops/7th-Gen-A12-9700P-APU-with-Radeon%E2%84%A2-R7-Graphics/195 I was curious weither or not they beat my decently old PC's stuffs. But i'm not too familiar with computer lingo. If I just compare numbers it feels like mine's better, but I feel like that's a bit hard to believe concidering it's from what... like, 2010 or 2012? Can't be any more recent than that. Maybe a bit older. (and I can only run 3D games that came out in the last years smoothly if I put the settings to low-medium, otherwise it sometimes lags and freezes) So i'm sure I must have checked something wrong. So yeah. Not really looking for advices on where to look if I want a top-tier quantum laptop - I know i'm nowhere near that (though if you got a few that are similarly priced and are vastly Superior to this one, i'm not saying no...) but I just wanted to know, like... on a scale to 1 to 10 where would it go in today's standarts, or just what can I expect from it? Am I likely to bench my current desktop computer and use this one instead or is it quite weak and I shouldn't expect to do more with it than use it for my class? Thanks.

Right, if you'd want to compare with my desktop's processor, I think it's this one: https://www.cnet.com/products/amd-athlon-ii-x3-440-3-ghz-processor-series/specs/