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Touch The Universe · Post by **Touch The Universe** » Sun Nov 08, 2015 2:36 pm

My old one (5 years)

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Or this one

IntelR i3-6100U [6th Generation IntelR Core™ i3-6100U Processor (3M Cache, up to 2.30 GHz)]

I'm searching for a new laptop as a secondary production tool that is portable. Among these on this page -- which has best value for money or alternatively can you suggest something under 590$

http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15-75 ... ?ref=PD_OC

Touch The Universe · Post by **Touch The Universe** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 3:46 am

Ciberithm · Post by **Ciberithm** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 4:54 am

If you really want to know, the answer is - it depends. The newer i3 will be quite a bit faster on single threaded applications. However, even though your old CPU is about the half the processing power per core of the newer i3, it has twice as many cores. I wouldn't expect a big jump in performance from the CPU alone.

You can find a lot of benchmarks on CPU review sites that will confirm this.

A quick check of my local electronics stores website shows several Inspiron models with i5 or i7 for under $600. I would pass on the i3.

incubus · Post by **incubus** » Tue Nov 10, 2015 5:53 am

i3 is to music computer as a corpse is to a freeway (even with traffic)

Touch The Universe · Post by **Touch The Universe** » Tue Nov 10, 2015 5:29 pm

I will look for the i5 and i7 then, thanks.. Of them, how much faster are they compared to my older one?

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Tue Nov 10, 2015 5:35 pm

Get an i7 with an SSD ... it'll fly. I just did

rod_zero · Post by **rod_zero** » Tue Nov 10, 2015 8:09 pm

An i7 might be out of his budget but maybe an i5 could be within reach.

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Tue Nov 10, 2015 8:12 pm

rod_zero wrote:An i7 might be out of his budget but maybe an i5 could be within reach.

Could be ... I think even an SSD is too expensive.

gaf_thit · Post by **gaf_thit** » Tue Nov 10, 2015 8:42 pm

I would rather go for a used highspec of yesteryear's make than a new i3/i5... That would be my choice though... Built a desktop quite recently real cheap. I7 3930k, it's a rocket.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Tue Nov 10, 2015 8:51 pm

Mmh... some i3's are faster than some i5's, and some i5's are faster than some i7's... to add to the confusion.

The problem with comparing older CPU's to newer CPU's is the lack of benchmark comparison. Noone will compare old stuff to new stuff, so you never know. FWIW, i'm pretty surprised about the performance of my cheapo notebooks i3 CPU. Can even play more modest 3D games on it, which is more than i expected. But then, i have no idea how it is with a DAW project with a lot of tracks. If you want to go safe, spend more money.

gaf_thit · Post by **gaf_thit** » Tue Nov 10, 2015 9:29 pm

chk071 wrote:Mmh... some i3's are faster than some i5's, and some i5's are faster than some i7's... to add to the confusion.

Yes, and it depends on what you use it for and if the programs is multithreaded, multicore and multiples of other variables. But one thing's for certain: this brooklyn east IPA tastes good atm imho

Ciberithm · Post by **Ciberithm** » Tue Nov 10, 2015 10:41 pm

chk071 wrote:...The problem with comparing older CPU's to newer CPU's is the lack of benchmark comparison. Noone will compare old stuff to new stuff, so you never know.

Try this site. It has benchmarks for many old CPU's. It's not a head to head comparison but they use the same benchmark app to generate a performance score.

https://browser.primatelabs.com/processor-benchmarks

incubus · Post by **incubus** » Thu Nov 12, 2015 6:19 am

Budget aside, NOTHING is worth getting an i3. Sorry, find another alternative. Though you'll get the occasional yahoo that will say "oh, I can run 678 tracks all with VCC and VMR on them dodo, generally people have said "nope, no go running anything" with an i3.

I'm not the worlds greatest expert with architecture, but I'm pretty sure there are some fatal flaws with how an i3 handles things that make it nearly useless for daw work. Check into it.

Touch The Universe · Post by **Touch The Universe** » Mon Nov 30, 2015 10:01 pm

Hi guys. I'm thinking of buying this today. How does it compare to my older one? Thoughts?

http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-15-75 ... 568-laptop

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Mon Nov 30, 2015 10:03 pm

Ciberithm wrote:
chk071 wrote:...The problem with comparing older CPU's to newer CPU's is the lack of benchmark comparison. Noone will compare old stuff to new stuff, so you never know.
Try this site. It has benchmarks for many old CPU's. It's not a head to head comparison but they use the same benchmark app to generate a performance score.

https://browser.primatelabs.com/processor-benchmarks

Great, thanks for the link, that's really helpful.

Which cpu is faster?