Yes, but it's even better than you think given that you can find ryzen 3 at the price point that used to be modern "pentium" playground; Windows 10 and a browse

Yes, but it's even better than you think given that you can find ryzen 3 at the price point that used to be modern "pentium" playground; Windows 10 and a browser with a few tabs and office with a couple spreadsheets opened just don't do well on two cores anymore And in fact ryzen 5 2200/2400 is so cheap that competing offers price wise are i3 based (or i5 but with less ram, and 4 GB is just not enough in 2019, when windows want 2, chrome wants 2, office wants 2, ...). Ryzen 5 2xxx vs i3 is simply not a fair fight, it's not even a fight at all. I guess I'm usually so focused on high / super high / server needs that it didn't fully hit me how intel was getting eaten alive even in the low / middle market right now. And medium sized business replacing office computers really don't care about the brand of their cpu, "cheaper, works better" is going to win every time.