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Originally Posted by Great68
^I dunno, I think I5's are perfectly acceptable for general light duty (browsing, email, simple apps).
I bought a couple refurb T14's with I5-1145's, 16G ram and 256G for $500. I find them perfectly serviceable for general use. One lives in my garage so I can steam tunes to my stereo in there, or look up stuff when I need it while I'm working things.
The other is just kind of a floater inside the house when I want to surf on the couch or whatever. I used to use my work laptop all the time for this, but now I don't need to. They started locking so much shit down that it had become a pain.
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11th gen is like fine....
Intel 5th to 10th gen = Early Subaru EJ25, left to stagnate w/ bad head gasket
11-13th = Later EJ25, basic variants fine but high performance sku blows up
Core 1xx/2xx = FA20, nothing special
Core 3xx = FA24, finally 'good' but still worse than competitors.
Apple is like BMW turbo 6s and ZF8, M1 Pro from 6 years ago is still better than Core 3xx.
AMD is like MB with their 400hp+ turbo 4s, their high end chips are stronger than Core 2xx and 3xx.