Hello! Im searching for laptop in 1000-1500 Euro price range. Main requirement: CPU should be as fast as possible. I dont care about performance of individual cores, I need it to be fast from multicore perspective. Also optionally it should be compact, like macbooks.

Please share your recommendations. Thank you!

    • Atemu
      2•3 days ago

      If you want fast nix evals and docker builds, you absolutely do care about per-core performance.

      I have little experience with Rust but, while I do know that it parallelises quite well, I also believe that there are still many single-threaded operations on the critical path though such as linking.

      I think for your purposes, you’ll do well with any 8-core AMD Zen4 that can draw more than 45W or any 4+n core Zen5. The latter would be a bit more efficient but practically the same perf in code compilation.

      Intel is not competitive currently and ARM is still not quite there yet.

    • @SkyezOpen
      1•3 days ago

      Is this the budget your job allowed you, or are you spending your own money to be more productive?