Posted on 11/08/2019 8:53:51 AM PST by fireman15
Get an i5, trust me, it’s the most bang for the buck. The Celerons are Intel’s low end. The i7s are great, but expensive. the i3’s are barely a notch above the Celerons. The i5 is the sweet spot if your not a gamer.
Nice article breaks down the different intel cpu’s. I have a i5 instead of the i7 due to cost plus the i7 is only a micro second faster and I am not doing lots of video or 3d rendering or gaming. Keep in mind that the a expensive computer today is the less expensive one tomorrow and you will have people say that is not high end anymore when it was high end a few years ago. Kinda like a car with lots of horsepower, you are not going to use it all going to the supermarket so why pay a higher price for the Porsche when a Honda will do?
https://helpdeskgeek.com/reviews/intel-core-i9-vs-i7-vs-i5-vs-i3/
It is not nearly as much of a problem as it once was with these latest generation energy efficient chips. At one point it was the leading cause of laptop failures. I replaced the motherboard on one of my laptops 3 different times. This was after re-seating chips with a heat gun wouldn't work any more.
My wife wants a new laptop for Christmas. All the ones that is the size and the price we want all are run by Intel Celeron processors.
My previous laptop had the i5 8250u CPU and an AMD video processor. But it had a poorly designed cooling system, severe thermal throttling would kick in any time it was given a challenging task such as video encoding. It would slow down to Celeron speeds within a minute or two.
My replacement laptop has a Ryzen 5 2500u and no discrete video processor... theoretically it should have been slightly slower than the i5 8250u even without the discrete video processor. But it outperformed the other computer by a significant margin on every benchmark that mattered to me.
Ryzen 5 2500u laptops typically did not have the greatest ratings when they first came out because the drivers were flakey to begin with. This caused the prices to drop and then when decent drivers were released they became real bargains because the Ryzen’s built in video processor is vastly superior to the one in the i5 8250u.
One should probably avoid any laptop with the seventh generation i5 7200u or the i7 7500u processors. The 8th generation series intel core series laptop processors were a huge improvement over their predecessors. The i5 8250u is significantly faster than the i7 7500u and nearly twice as fast as the i5 7200u.
Interestingly enough this doesn’t apply as much to the desktop processor core processors. The 6 year old Intel i7-3770 outperforms the i7 8550u, but it uses approximately 3 times as much power to do it.
Currently the Ryzen 5 based laptops are typically $100 to $200 cheaper than their i5 based counterparts.
My wife wants a new laptop for Christmas. All the ones that is the size and the price we want all are run by Intel Celeron processors.
Thanks fireman15. Remember the various times AMD was "doomed", most recently when the previous team (nd originators) of their Zen architecture gave up and left the company? And before that, when they attempted to build a large state of the art fab in the US and dumped billions into before they quailed? Hard not to like those who persevere.
I was working just down the street at Signetics when AMD started up. We used to have drinks at the Wagon Wheel with Larry Stenger before they started AMD.(I must be getting really old. ahem)
Yep. Funny thing, Apple was the original investor in ARM, and here they are pushing the tech to new levels.
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How do you cool the thing? Nitrogen?
5.56mm
Of course, you're right. My error not to include those folks.
I suspect most are being paid to stand in line.
These power hungry beasts do require innovative cooling devices for the best performance.
IIRC, Apple started working with the Acrorn Risc Machine, as it was originally called, back with the Newton.
Correct. From that collaboration Acorn and Apple formed the ARM we know today.
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