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Is this sarcasm? Why spend $$$$ on a laptop with a beefy CPU if you aren't going to use it?
by Retr0spectrum 8y ago
Is this sarcasm?
Why spend $$$$ on a laptop with a beefy CPU if you aren't going to use it?
- Brakenshire 8y agoA beefy CPU which quickly hits its thermal limit is pointless.
- Retr0spectrum 8y agoI'm not disagreeing with that.
- Brakenshire 8y agoThat often seems to be the case with ultrabook type laptops. They try to charge $100 more for a CPU you can only use for 2 minutes.
- ska 8y agoIt's true, beefy CPUs and laptops have some conflicting design goals.
- derekp7 8y agoThere are a fair number of tasks that can stress the CPU for short periods of time. But If I can turn an occasional 10 second task into a 3 second task, that is where a CPU that can throttle up temporarily really helps (things like generating crypto keys, or some short-burst javascript on some web sites). But for video transcoding that may take 3 hours, that's something I would do on a remote server anyway.
- carlivar 8y agoIt's offered by my work in their small list of "approved" hardware. I do most intensive things on remote servers. In a laptop I mostly care about keyboard quality, weight, and battery life.
- zwayhowder 8y agoA lot of laptops tie large RAM amounts to beefy CPUs. I don't need my i7, I do need my 16gb of RAM.