Comments on: i3, i5, i7, i9: What Does This Mean and What Should You Choose? https://www.thetechlounge.com/i3-i5-i7-i9-what-does-this-mean-and-what-should-you-choose/ Sun, 05 Jun 2022 17:54:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: Rick https://www.thetechlounge.com/i3-i5-i7-i9-what-does-this-mean-and-what-should-you-choose/#comment-5233 Thu, 04 Feb 2021 14:54:21 +0000 https://www.thetechlounge.com/?p=6251#comment-5233 Thought comes to mind that the i-series has for years been a moving window in the world of processors and computing power. To me it makes senses to buy in the upper end, because it won’t be that for long. Software requirements increase consistently and as new versions are released, they will no longer run on older processors. On the other hand, I find that I have to keep an older system available to run applications that don’t meet newer standards. I just finished building up my first i9 laptop, not cheap, but it should be good for maybe five years. But I still use some software that is stuck on Windows XP because I like it, it meets my needs, and newer versions have become loaded with ‘crap’ I don’t want.

For some perspective, this i9 laptop has many hundreds of times the capacity of literal room-filling systems I first worked on early in my IT career.

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