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Suggest laptop with fastest CPU (Multicore) (self.buildapc)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by majestic to c/[email protected]

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Hello! Im searching for laptop in 1000-1500 Euro price range. Main requirement: CPU should be as fast as possible. I dont care about performance of individual cores, I need it to be fast from multicore perspective. Also optionally it should be compact, like macbooks.

Please share your recommendations. Thank you!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What are you going to do with it that requires multicore perf?

[–] majestic 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Rust, docker, nix etc. you got me. I want to maximize my productivity at work

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you want fast nix evals and docker builds, you absolutely do care about per-core performance.

I have little experience with Rust but, while I do know that it parallelises quite well, I also believe that there are still many single-threaded operations on the critical path though such as linking.

I think for your purposes, you'll do well with any 8-core AMD Zen4 that can draw more than 45W or any 4+n core Zen5. The latter would be a bit more efficient but practically the same perf in code compilation.

Intel is not competitive currently and ARM is still not quite there yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is this the budget your job allowed you, or are you spending your own money to be more productive?

[–] majestic 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not my own

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

For software engineering, memory is more often the limit. L1, L2, ram.