I use Windows 11 on an Intel 10th generation NUC and it is very fast. It came from Novatech in the UK. My last computer was a 32 core 128gb RAM Threadripper fr

I use Windows 11 on an Intel 10th generation NUC and it is very fast. It came from Novatech in the UK. My last computer was a 32 core 128gb RAM Threadripper from ChillBlast. Surprisingly the Threadripper had a slower single core performance than the Intel NUC. I also use a Ubuntu virtual machine in VirtualBox with Vagrant for development machines to do DevOps. But I also use IntelliJ and it is fast enough on the NUC and it's SSD and 32GB RAM. I don't play games. But I write multithreaded software so I get 12 logical cores to play with. (6 physical cored and 12 hardware threads) I think the innovators dilemma has occurred with mobile technology. Mobile chips such as my NUC and ARM chips in phones are good enough for development. (See apple silicon) I can run 6 virtual machines without slowdown. Admittedly my IntelliJ is running on a small repository. I suspect it I was working on an employer's project it would slow down due to all the files. Most of the time the computer is waiting for IO and the CPU can be different levels of idle. I recommend the Gist "latency numbers every developer should know" https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832 https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832 I would recommend people buy from manufacturers that don't preload stuff into their laptops. Such as Framework, System76, ChillBlast, Novatech. EDIT: I had an ASUS but I installed Ubuntu on it and I cannot remember if the windows had lots of manufacturer software on it. I rarely booted into windows.