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by toss1941 3399 days ago
Quad cores are the absolute minimum I would want for a standard office machine, unless it's only for a handful of basic applications. My latest work laptop is a quad core with 32 GB of RAM for running multiple VM's, but they couldn't give me an SSD which ends up wasting at least a few hours of productivity a week.
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Right, I guess that's my point. The minimal gains in CPU are widely offset by upgrading other components like a SSD. So what if Ryzen is a few percent slower on a javascript benchmark? Does this actually noticeably affect any apps that people actually use?