@StuartJordan Chrome's been my favorite for years and still is. It's just that now there's something that feels noticeably faster so I'm on that train. When the last major release of Firefox came out that claimed it was Faster than Chrome I tried that too, unfortunately they hadn't tested it on high-end hardware and the scrolling was very artificial feeling for me so I trashed it.
@marcinozga I would expect based on Brave's marketing that their browser uses a lot less memory than Chrome for indirect reasons as they're scanning and removing a large number of the heaviest pieces of web pages based on "preventing ads that track you"
I recently started using Chrome mostly for development ( coding ) and then I use Brave for a lot of personal browsing as it's so much palpably faster that everything feels like it's working better. Worth checking out, even Google Docs run WAY more smoothly all the way down to scrolling large docs.
@PhlipElder If you're referring to what I think you're referring to, the culprit would just be the relatively slower processor on the slower machine being constrasted.
@black3dynamite said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:
@creayt said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:
@PhlipElder What's Teams?
Microsoft Teams
Ah, I think I've maybe heard of that. I don't use it though and have confirmed it's not installed. I do use Slack though, but it's running identically on all my devices so I don't think it'd be the cause for performance differences.
@Pete-S said in Spec'ing a new computer from Dell or?:
The whole i5/i7 is just a bunch of marketing that creates confusion. There is no real difference between i5 and i7 on mobile CPUs. Usually the i7 can run on a slightly higher clock frequency so it's about 10-15% faster when pushed. Which is not enough for the user to actually notice.
So it's better to take the i5, save a bunch of $$$ and buy memory for that instead. Seeing Dell selling new laptops in 2019 with spinning rust and 4GB RAM - that should be criminal.
BTW, if you truly need speed you should go with one of the workstation or gaming laptops. They have a different, faster category of CPU. Higher TDP compared to the everyday laptops (45W versus 15W). But still slow compared to the desktop CPUs, which should be the choice for speed.
Respectfully disagree. But I will agree that for many people the difference between i7 and i5s ( generally speaking ) will never be perceived/valued, so in many cases it makes sense to go w/ an i5 for the $ savings.
For many other users and specific workloads, the difference is huge. Walking from my bedroom where I have a 2019 hexacore i5 Mac Mini running Windows 10 Pro hooked up to a 43" 4k monitor to my office across the hall where there's an octacore i9 it's like night and day. Each keystroke, click, and task-switch I do on the i9 feels VERY OBVIOUSLY faster than the Mac Mini. The Mac Mini feels ok, great for its size, until I hop onto the i9. When I get into serious workloads the difference becomes even more obvious, thread-dependent or not ( and honestly I don't have many workloads that use the surplus of cores, but I do multitask hard ).
The first time I went from an i5 to an i7-7700HQ it was a similar experience.
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