It's "alas" because I've found for some years now that mostly I just want my computer to WORK, appliance-like. My fsck'ing can-opener never throws bad blocks... :P<div><br></div><div>Though I _used_to_ enjoy getting a new computer, setting it up, etc, I mostly experience it these days as a massive inconvenience.</div><div> </div><div>Anyhow... rant over (at least for now). My question (likely the first of several) is if there's a general consensus as to th<span style="font-size:15px">e price/performance "sweet spot" for CPU's? Probably my most compute-intensive chore is running Photoshop on 24MP raw images (though I love me some complex 4X games in the Civ/AoE/MoO model, and late-stage/large-map sessions DO take a while to calculate.). I was rather startled by how cheap i7 systems have become! But then again, I see that other considerations (Haswll, Broadwell, Skylake, yadda yadda yadda) seem to be where much of the differentiation is happening... so there's quite a HUGE range of price and performance under the "i7" umbrella.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px">And then there's AMD...</span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div>I'm sure I could figure it out for myself, in time, but... Well, per the Rant above, the geeky joy's just not there... I'm hoping that my (admittedly-incomplete) assimilation into the nblug collective might give me some quicker insights...</div><div><br></div><div>Any advice/etc gratefully received!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>- Steve</div><div> </div>
<br><br>-- <br>"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -CS Lewis<br>