[lca2018-chat] Arjen's new laptop

[James Henstridge]

On 29 January 2018 at 17:38, Arjen Lentz <arjen at openstem.com.au> wrote:
> It has a quad core Intel i5 8250U 1.6GHz (turbo to 3.4GHz) which is a quad core + hyperthreading.
> Why not an i7? Because you will mainly kill your battery life, in return for very little extra performance - remember it's a mobile CPU infrastructure.  A desktop replacement approach will always be bigger, heavier and eat more power (been there, tried that).

Are you sure about that?  If it was an i7 from the same range, it
would likely have the same TDP as the i5 models.  At least for the
mobile chips, the i5/i7 branding mostly looks like a case of picking
and market differentiation rather than being completely different
products.

James.