OP here. Sure I suck at buying laptops (the Acer Nitro isn't bad though). In the bad old days, you used to simply look at the frequency and it would pretty mu

OP here. Sure I suck at buying laptops (the Acer Nitro isn't bad though). In the bad old days, you used to simply look at the frequency and it would pretty much tell you the performance, and at the time I bought the A10-9600p laptop I did exactly that. I have learned since then that the simple approach to buying anything with a multi-core CPU doesn't work like it did a decade ago. Some of us are slow learners!