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Anyone multitasking can use the core counts. I feel like 2 -> 4 cores will make a difference for most users. 4 -> 8 for heavy users like developers.


Yes, but 4 cores has been the standard for a long time already. Recently thanks to AMD heavy users often are grabbing 8, 12, 16 or more.


You wish! Intel only very recently (e.g. 3 years ago) brought 4 cores to mainstream in the mobile segment.

Low power mobile chips were dual core until Q3 2017 when Kaby Lake refresh was released and brought 4 cores to the i5 and i7 line-up. Even then, entry level and mainstream versions (i3 in particular) remained dual core configs.


Only the very top end of laptop CPUs had 4 cores until recently. Certainly they weren't mainstream 5-7 years ago.


I have a cheap Thinkpad E-series from 2012 with Intel i7-3612QM 4c/8t CPU. At the time it cost a third less than a Macbook. As far as price was concerned it was mainstream.




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