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Who buys a $350+ processor with 8C/16T for web/office?

• washadjeffmad 10y ago
  Universities and government institutions that haven't spent all of their funding by year-end, for one.
• toss1941 10y 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.
  • O5vYtytb 10y ago
    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?
• flukus 10y ago
  It's 2017, we need that just to read a website these days.