I'm looking at buying a new laptop and I want to get th

I thought all i7s had 4 cores?

>>57415645
There's a five year difference between those two
Holy shit do some research, also the "best" laptop CPU is some Xeon that costs a few hundred bucks alone

>>57415645
>>57415860
I usually don't recommend watching Linus, but here's a good explanation by him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLSPub4ydiM

>>57415645
Use this site
http://cpuboss.com/
Kinda good for comparing CPU's

>>57415860
No. Many i7's don't have more than two cores.

>>57415645

here comes the lenovo shills

>>57415860

Much i7 are just i5 at a higher clock speed on laptop

>>57415645

I would recommend a balance, first stat you budget an then explain what do you intend to use it for

>>57416013
Going to be using it for general use but also music production. It's hard to give a budget because the country I am currently living had high import tax so $300 for you is going to be different to what I can get for the same money. Looking for the typical magical bargain of high performance for little cash.

>>57415645
That's a Skylake desktop processor vs a Nehalem mobile processor.

>>57415645
For these two linked though, considering the i3 has a higher base frequency than the turbo boost max freq of the i7, wouldn't that mean that the i3 would be faster? I know it doesn't have turbo boost but would that make a difference in this case?

>>57416126
Well, they are both in laptops I've been looking at.

>>57416134
Maybe, but the i3 is a desktop CPU wit a high TDP