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!

      • Atemu@lemmy.ml
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        23 days 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.

      • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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        23 days ago

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