[dageshi]

Your email reader, word, youtube and IDE isn't likely to push the limits on any modern CPU, your video game is increasingly optimized around multiple cores because modern consoles ship with multi core cpu's and they need all the performance they can out of them. Only thing that might benefit from single cpu performance is probably your general python code.

[user5994461]

Gmail and the IDE take ten seconds to load, while youtube is destroying any CPU to watch a 4k video (or 1080p on a battery saving laptop).

Youtube is possibly the single largest root cause for users upgrading laptops over the past 10 years. They made a silent transition to 60 FPS videos last year which cut hundreds of millions of users from watching HD.

[StillBored]

Destroying CPU in some configurations....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef1wAfrMg5I is ~10% of 1 cpu on my desktop using chrome.

OTOH, I know what your talking about, my linux machine hates youtube, but that's because even with the chromium freeworld fork with some codec acceleration its still burning CPU like crazy.

So, a big part of this isn't a hardware problem so much as a software one combined with the constant fights over who's codec is the one true choice. AKA its a youtube and !windows/android+chrome problem.

[rumanator]

> Gmail and the IDE take ten seconds to load,

Those tasks are IO-bound, not CPU-bound.

Your concerns have no basis whatsoever.

> Youtube is possibly the single largest root cause for users upgrading laptops over the past 10 years.

No one in the whole world feels the need to upgrade to a high-end workstation because of YouTube videos.