<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&amp;gt; Anecdote: a family member and software dev just bought the latest macbook pro coming from about an 8 year old macbook pro. Apparently he doesn&amp;#x27;t perceive much real world performance difference between the 2 machines. He said single core synthetic benchmarks were higher, but not by much.&lt;p&gt;It really depends on the workload. My old MacBook Pro feels the same as the newer model 98% of the time that I&amp;#x27;m using it, but I really appreciate the extra RAM and double the core count when I need it.&lt;p&gt;Reducing build times from 30 seconds down to 15 seconds doesn&amp;#x27;t sound like much when you&amp;#x27;re not pressing the compile button very often, but it really does help improve my engagement and focus.&lt;p&gt;The newer graphics cards are also much better at handling large and high-resolution external monitors. The difference isn&amp;#x27;t pronounced if you&amp;#x27;re just using the built-in laptop screen, but start using multiple external 4K+ monitors and the faster GPU starts to shine.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dougmwne</author><text>From a quick read, in case anyone is wondering, this is built on the latest-gen 10nm process which is a refinement on the previous 10nm process. Intel&amp;#x27;s goal was to focus on clock increases, so the instruction per clock is apparently not much changed. From looking at the tables, the whole line of processors appear to have nicely improved one core max clock speeds, which should hopefully help single core performance, which isn&amp;#x27;t something that has been increasing much lately.&lt;p&gt;Anecdote: a family member and software dev just bought the latest macbook pro coming from about an 8 year old macbook pro. Apparently he doesn&amp;#x27;t perceive much real world performance difference between the 2 machines. He said single core synthetic benchmarks were higher, but not by much.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel Launches 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/print/16063/intel-launches-11th-gen-core-tiger-lake-processors-and-evo-branding</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joakleaf</author><text>I agree. I don&amp;#x27;t feel much difference between the 15&amp;quot; MB-Pro i7 4-core from 2014 and the i9 8-core from 2019. The i9 really isn&amp;#x27;t noticeable faster on single core. Instead it gets hotter and its fans starts sooner. So I recommend keeping the old one if you have it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dougmwne</author><text>From a quick read, in case anyone is wondering, this is built on the latest-gen 10nm process which is a refinement on the previous 10nm process. Intel&amp;#x27;s goal was to focus on clock increases, so the instruction per clock is apparently not much changed. From looking at the tables, the whole line of processors appear to have nicely improved one core max clock speeds, which should hopefully help single core performance, which isn&amp;#x27;t something that has been increasing much lately.&lt;p&gt;Anecdote: a family member and software dev just bought the latest macbook pro coming from about an 8 year old macbook pro. Apparently he doesn&amp;#x27;t perceive much real world performance difference between the 2 machines. He said single core synthetic benchmarks were higher, but not by much.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel Launches 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/print/16063/intel-launches-11th-gen-core-tiger-lake-processors-and-evo-branding</url></story>